1. Some structure like start here do this lesson that lesson..so on and so forth.
2. learn how to read these diagrams so I can understand what all the colored circles mean and where they are pointing to.
3. learn the patterns in such a way I can visualize them (if Possible)
These questions are too often asked here on the forums, so for all, I have made a small beginner program to follow, bare with me:SESSION 1________________________________________________________________________________
Here are several simple lesson that you should definitely check out. It's Andrew's First Steps series. You may already know things from them, but it is definitely a good to watch them:
First Steps 1First Steps 2First two lessons above are IMO for people who are taking guitars for the first time in their hands, so be sure to check them out if you are just getting to play the guitar.
First Steps 3First Steps 4First Steps 5First Steps 6These 4 lessons are essential for every beginner player to watch, as they contain a lot of interesting and helpful information about things every player should know.
SESSION 2________________________________________________________________________________
If you don't know how to tune or restring the guitar, or use a metronome, definitely check out:
GUITAR TUNING TUTORIALGUITAR RESTRINGING TUTORIAL (no floyd rose tremolo covered yet)
USING A METRONOMESESSION 3________________________________________________________________________________
When you finish with this basic learning you can warm up your hands with these lessons:Warming Up With Marcus SiepenRight hand BasicsSESSION 4 - THEORY___________________________________________________________________________
At this time every player should be aware that guitar playing should be definitely backed up with some knowledge, or else how can we know what we are doing! So in parallel with every video lesson, let's read some of great Andrew's theory lessons here on GMC. For starters, let's read these 3 great articles to help you get to know theory basics and reading music and diagrams for guitar.
Theory Basics For GuitarReading Music - TabsReading Scale Diagrams
SESSION 5________________________________________________________________________________
After reading some theory, now it's time to learn the pentatonic scale. We have 2 assignments for this session - 1 article and 1 big series!
Theory Article 1 -
Minor PentatonicLesson 1 -
Pentatonic Workshop Series - Video Lesson Series to help you master the pentatonics
SESSION 6________________________________________________________________________________
In this session, our assignment is to read 3 great theory articles and then tackle 2 basic power chord lessons:
Theory Article 1 - Degrees of the scaleTheory Article 2 - IntervalsTheory Article 3 - Power ChordsLesson 1 -
Beginner Power ChordsLesson 2 -
Smoke On The WaterSESSION 7________________________________________________________________________________
In session 7, we are slowly starting to cover the chords as well. We have one theory article and several basic chordal lessons:Article 1 -
Intervals, Chords, Triads and HarmoniesLesson 1 -
Chord BasicsLesson 2 -
Barre TriadsLesson 3 -
Open Chords StrummingLesson 4 -
Pop StrummingSESSION 8 - THEORY___________________________________________________________________________
In this session we will cover some more theory articles to prepare ourselves for the future assignments. I suggest you go through them as they are very essential!
Article 1 -
Circle of FifthsArticle 2 -
Chords For ScalesArticle 3 -
CAGED, Part 1Article 4 -
CAGED, Part 2 SESSION 9________________________________________________________________________________
In this session we will cover some basic modes knowledge, including one article about explaining modes and some lesson exercises: Article 1 -
Modes - IntroductionArticle 2 -
Modes - The TheoryLesson 1 -
Modes - 3 note per string patterns - Alternate PickingLesson 2 -
Learning the modes Lesson 3 -
Seven Strings Modes 3-NotesLesson 4 -
Modal SoloThat's it for now!