The Guitar Grimoire

Contents

• Fingerpicking
• Understanding the Notes
• Middle C and Guitar Notation
• Rhythm and Time Signatures
• Tablature
• Fingering
• Pattern 1
• Pattern 2
• Pattern 3
• Pattern 4
• Pattern 5
• Pattern 6
• Pattern 7
• Pattern 8
• Fingerpicking the Scales
• Patterns in F Major (ascending
• descending
• both and alternating)
• Coils
• Three Note Coils in F Major
• Four Note Coils in F Major
• Single String Exercises in F Major
• Two String Exercises in F Major
• Scale Tone Thirds in F Major
• Keys F-sharp to E
• Practicing the Pentatonics
• Patterns in F Major Pentatonic (ascending
• descending
• both and alternating)
• Three Note Coils in F Minor Pentatonic
• Four Note Coils in F Minor Pentatonic
• Two String Pentatonic Exercises
• Keys F-sharp to E
• Open D with Ostinato Bass
• Learning the Upbeats
• Mixing the Down and Upbeats
• Introducing New Notes on the Third String
• Introducing Sixteenth Notes
• Mixing the Eighths and the Sixteenths
• Using the Second String with Ostinato Bass
• Using the First String with Ostinato Bass
• Mixing the Strings
• Playing Other Chords While in Drop D Tuning
• D Major Scale Over Open D Ostinato Bass