Guitar Lesson Plans
In this section you can access and download professionally formatted lesson materials ready to print and give to your students. Each download includes comprehensive step-by-step instructions on how to teach the lesson effectively. More lesson materials will continuously be added so you will never run out of new content to give to your students.
BEG - Introduction Lessons for Beginners
BEG-01 Parts of the guitar
BEG-03 Tuning the guitar
BEG-04 How to read Guitar TAB
BEG-05 How to read Standard Notation
BEG-06 1234 Finger Warm-Up
BAS - The Basics
BAS-01 Nursery Rhymes
BAS-02 Hammer-ons & Pull-offs
BAS-03 Slides
BAS-04 Nursery Rhymes using Hammer-ons, Pull-offs & Slides
BAS-05 Basic Open Chords
BAS-06 Introduction to Rhythm
BAS-07 Basic Strumming Patterns
BAS-08 Introduction to the Metronome
BAS-11 Christmas Songs
BBL - Beginner Book Style (Suitable for Children)
BBL-02 High E string
BBL-03 B string
BBL-04 G string
BBL-05 Songs on the first three strings
BBL-06 D string
BBL-07 Easy chords on four strings
BBL-08 A string
BBL-09 Low E string
BBL-10 Songs on all six strings
BBL-16 C Major Scale Time Test
KDS - Songs for Kids
KDS-01 Baa Baa Black Sheep
KDS-02 Eensy Weensy Spider
KDS-03 It's Raining, It's Pouring
KDS-04 If You're Happy And You Know It
KDS-05 Row, Row, Row Your Boat
KDS-06 Rock-a-bye Baby
TEC - Techniques
TEC-01 Palm muting
TEC-02 Bends
TEC-03 Vibrato
TEC-04 Fingerpicking
TEC-05 Natural Harmonics
TEC-06 Sweep Picking
TEC-07 Tapping
TEC-09 Picking Exercises 1
TEC-11 String Skipping
TEC-12 Whammy Bar
EXE - Exercises
Note: in addition to the below exercises, you can also access an additional range of Exercises that give you greater control over how you work on each skill with your student.
EXE-01 Chord Flipping
EXE-02 Finger Spider
EXE-03 Barre Chord Exercises
EXE-04 String Skipping Arpeggios
EXE-06 Two Note Legato Exercises
EXE-07 Three Note Legato Exercises
EXE-08 Four Note Legato Exercises
EXE-09 Three String Sweep Picking Exercises
EXE-13 Coordinating Both Hands
EXE-14 Legato Runs
EXE-15 Tapping Patterns
EXE-16 Rhythm Groupings
SCE - Scale Exercises
SCE-01 C Major Scale Exercises
SCE-02 G Major Scale Exercises
SCE-03 F Major Scale Exercises
SCE-04 D Major Scale Exercises
SCE-05 A Major Scale Exercises
SCE-06 E Major Scale Exercises
MTH - Music Theory
MTH-01 The Major Scale
MTH-05 Intervals
MTH-07 Major Scales and Key Signatures
MTH-08 Seventh Chords
INT - Intermediate Techniques & Concepts
INT-01 Introduction to the Pentatonic Scale
INT-02 Introduction to the Guitar Slide
INT-03 More Guitar Slide Improvisation
INT-05 Learning the Fretboard
INT-06 Finding new chords across the neck
INT-07 Improvising with the Memphis Scale
INT-09 Guide Tones
INT-10 Phrasing
IMP - Improvisation
IMP-01 Using Themes in Solos
IMP-02 Passing Tones
IMP-03 Polyrhythms
MAI - Guitar Maintenance
MAI-01 Changing Electric Guitar Strings
MAI-02 Changing Nylon String Acoustic Guitar Strings
MAI-03 Changing Steel String Acoustic Guitar Strings
PRA - Practice Sessions & Plans
PRA-01 Song Skillsheet
PRA-02 Practice Session Breakdown
PRA-03 Student Goals
PRA-04 Student Progress Tracker
PRA-05 Finger Exercise Progress Tracker
RES - Blank Sheet Music
RES-01 Blank Guitar TAB only
RES-02 Blank Staff only
RES-03 Blank Guitar TAB & Staff
RES-04 Blank Rhythm Paper
RES-05 Blank Chord Diagrams
RES-06 Blank 7 String Chord Diagrams
RES-07 Blank 7 String Guitar TAB
RES-08 Blank 7 String Guitar TAB & Staff
RES-09 Blank Fretboard Diagrams
BLU - Blues
BLU-02 Common Scales Used in Blues
BLU-03 12 Bar Blues Shuffle
BLU-04 Blues in Open G Tuning
BLU-05 12 Bar Blues Shuffle Variation
CEL - Celtic
CEL-01 Basic Celtic Solo Piece
COU - Country
COU-01 Basic Country Style Licks
COU-02 Chicken Pickin'
FLA - Flamenco/Spanish
FNK - Funk
FNK-01 Funk Rhythm Skills
FNK-02 Funk Rhythm Riffs
JAZ - Jazz
MET - Metal
MET-05 Metal Riff Exercises 1
MET-06 Metal Riff Exercises 2
REG - Reggae
SCA - Scales and Modes
SCA-02 Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales
SCA-03 Blues Scale
SCA-04 Ionian Mode
SCA-05 Dorian Mode
SCA-06 Phrygian Mode
SCA-07 Lydian Mode
SCA-08 Mixolydian Mode
SCA-09 Aeolian Mode
SCA-10 Locrian Mode
SCA-11 Modes Reference
CHD - Applying Chords
CHD-01 Triads, Sus & Add Chords
CHD-02 Seventh Chords
CHD-03 Ninth Chords
CHD-07 Moving Open Chord Shapes
CHD-08 Basic E String Barre Chords
CHD-09 Basic A String Barre Chords
TUN - Alternate Tunings
TUN-01 Standard Tuning
TUN-02 Drop-D Tuning
TUN-03 Eb Tuning
TUN-04 Open G Tuning
TUN-05 DADGAD Tuning
UKU - Ukulele
PRO - In The Style Of ...
PRO-01 Stevie Ray Vaughan Rhythm
PRO-02 Stevie Ray Vaughan Lead
PRO-03 Eddie Van Halen
PRO-04 Eric Johnson
PRO-05 Joe Satriani
PRO-06 Dimebag Darrell
PRO-07 Randy Rhoads
PRO-08 Paul Gilbert
PRO-09 Keith Richards
EFX - Guitar Effects
EFX-01 Wah Pedal
EFX-02 Slapback Delay
New guitar lesson plans are constantly being created so check back regularly for updates.
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