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The moment you’ve been waiting for! When you can play barre chords, your chord vocabulary explodes! Be patient—it can take a little time to achieve clarity and find just the right feel. Make small adjustments as necessary, and practice every day to build your strength gradually and safely. Learn about barre chords in R7Barre Chords ; and use this lesson to determine when to use them: R1Barre Chords – When to Use 

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The major scale is the most common scale in Western music, but it will mean even more to you as you use it, as it will serve as the basis for every other scale you learn. Before playing it, take a few minutes to read this lesson: Lp11The Major Scale. Watch me explain it here:  LP26Scale Pattern #1

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Once you’re clear on the construction of the scale, it’s time to learn your first movable scale pattern. Study both of these lessons and add the practice into your daily routine.  LP6Movable Scale Pattern #1 ; SLP26Scale Pattern #1

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That cool chime-like sound people get from their guitars is call a harmonic. These lessons will explain how to achieve it.  T2Harmonics ;  T3Artificial Harmonics

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This video comes from my Comprehensive video, and it covers a lot. It begins with barre chords, combining the principles in Fretboard Familiarity. It then goes into adding texture and variety to strumming through dynamics, slapping or muting, rhythm from the fretting hand, syncopation, and more. The lesson concludes with fingerpicking. R11Accompaniment, Rhythm

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Learn to play thirds within the scale pattern as your first step toward using the scale to play music! LP9 Thirds Within the Scale

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In this lesson you begin to know and use the scale from the inside out. You will probably feel awkward at first and you may miss notes, but just go slowly, focusing on the scale tones only. If you get in a hurry and practice wrong notes, it will take a lot longer to achieve your goals. This is one of those things that is powerful if you do it a lot, over a long period of time. LP20 Manipulation of the Scale

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Good work! Ready for Module II? Click here!