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CHD-07 Moving Open Chord Shapes

About this guitar lesson plan

This lesson will give your student a new way they can use standard open chord shapes. The lesson focuses on how the student can move those open chord shapes up the fretboard to create fresh sounds when combined with the open strings. The included Teacher's Guide will explain how the student can use these new chords in progressions.

This lesson can be used for multiple purposes such as:

  • Teaching beginners new chords without teaching new shapes
  • Helping students write different chord progressions
  • Using music theory to understand new chords

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SCE-02 G Major Scale Exercises

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This lesson plan will give your student various exercises on the G Major Scale. The exercises are designed to teach your student to really think about the notes used and to learn to expand the exercises to other areas of the fretboard.

The following exercises are included:

  • Straight up and down the fretboard
  • Thirds
  • Fourths
  • Fifths
  • Sixths
  • Sevenths
  • String Skipping
  • String by String

Once your student completes these exercises, ask them to try the exercises again starting in a different area of the fretboard. Playing the exercises as written is good, but once your student learns to take the concepts behind each exercise and apply that to new areas of the neck, they will start to develop.

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SCE-01 C Major Scale Exercises

SCE-01 C Major Scale Exercises

About this resource

This lesson plan will give your student various exercises on the C Major Scale. The exercises are designed to teach your student to really think about the notes used and to learn to expand the exercises to other areas of the fretboard.

The following exercises are included:

  • Straight up and down the fretboard
  • Thirds
  • Fourths
  • Fifths
  • Sixths
  • Sevenths
  • String Skipping
  • String by String

Once your student completes these exercises, ask them to try the exercises again starting in a different area of the fretboard. Playing the exercises as written is good, but once your student learns to take the concepts behind each exercise and apply that to new areas of the neck, they will start to develop.

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UKU-01 Ukulele Chords

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If you're looking at a quick and easy way to introduce something a little different to your lessons, get yourself a Ukulele and show your student how to use it. This handout provides your student with a range of basic Major and minor chords on the Ukulele including a fretboard diagram. The Ukulele is incredibly simple to teach as your student will already have the necessary skills from learning guitar.

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CHD-02 Seventh Chords

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Following on from CHD-01, which covers triads, sus & add chords, this lesson covers a range of seventh chords. Each chord is given in a musical example so your student learns to apply the chord rather than simply learn a chord position. The included lesson instructions can be used to guide the lesson along and give your student tips on how to think about the chords. The theory is clearly explained so your student can understand the difference between the various seventh chords.

It's a good idea to go through MTH-08 before attempting this lesson as it covers the theory in a different way.

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CHD-01 Triads, Sus & Add Chords

About this lesson plan

This guitar lesson plan will help you introduce a few different chord types to your student. This material is set out to help your student learn to recognize each chord type when used in music. Each chord is used in a different music example so your student can see how they can use the chord as well. The idea behind the lesson is that your student will eventually begin to recognize chords in songs by ear. Rather than simply giving your student a chord chart with each type of chord, you can use this lesson plan to introduce each type of chord and your student can learn to each the unique characteristic of each type.

The chords covered in this lesson plan are:

  • Major and minor triads
  • Augmented triad
  • Sus4
  • Minor add9
  • Add11
  • Add6

The included instruction sheet will give you ideas on how to use the lesson plan. The instructions will give you a guide on how to explain the chords to your student and how to get them thinking about each chord's unique sound.

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EXE-13 Coordinating both hands

About this lesson plan

If your student has trouble coordinating their picking and fretting hands, this lesson will help you solve the problem. Each exercise works their coordination in different ways. By the end the student will be able to seamlessly play through the exercises without 'tripping up' on the string or playing muted notes. In addition to developing the student's coordination, the exercises also help the student think about creating their own licks. Having exercises that can be used in a musical way is key to developing as a musician.

This lesson plan will help your student:

  • Develop their coordination
  • Practice playing along with a metronome
  • Think about extending licks up and down a scale
  • Think about taking an idea and using it to create their own licks

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BAS-11 Christmas Songs

About this lesson

This lesson material included four very basic Christmas melodies you can teach your student during Christmas time. Although the songs are well suited to children, you can still give them to your teenager and adult students. Challenge your older students to add stylistic techniques such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, vibrato etc. to the basic melodies. This material is a fun way to try something different.

Songs included: Deck the Halls, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Jingle Bells, Silent Night.

Ideas to make the most out of this lesson plan:

  • Ask the student to use stylistic techniques instead of picking every note
  • Ask the student to try to transpose the melodies
  • Teach the student how to figure out what chords would work behind the melodies
  • Ask the student to improvise with the melodies as basic 'themes'

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INT-10 Phrasing

About this lesson

Phrasing is an incredibly important topic that many guitarists neglect. Phrasing involves thinking about how each note is played using stylistic techniques. This lesson plan will teach your student how they can use techniques such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends and vibrato to change the phrasing of a lick. The lesson plan contains an example lick with basic phrasing as well as several examples on how to apply certain techniques to change the phrasing of the lick. The included lesson instructions provide advice on how to teach the lesson.

This guitar lesson plan will help your student:

  • Improve their lead playing
  • Develop their own playing style
  • Apply stylistic techniques
  • Modify phrasing of licks

Before teaching this lesson it's important the student has good control over techniques so they can focus on applying them.

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FLA-03 Spanish Arpeggios

About this lesson

This lesson plan will help you teach your student how to improvise using the Phrygian-dominant mode and create a Spanish sound. Using very simple arpeggio shapes your student will learn to come up with their own interesting melodies while keeping a rhythm. This is excellent exercise for any student - not just those wanting to learn the Spanish style. The exercises will also give your student practice with fingerpicking.

This lesson plan will help your student:

  • Learn the Phrygian-dominant mode
  • Practice simple arpeggio shapes and patterns
  • Learn how to improvise following a simple set up

Your student doesn't need to understand anything about modes or theory at this point. It does help if they understand the theory behind the mode but even beginners can use this lesson plan without any trouble.

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