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Learning Guitar
Part 1: Lesson Five
 More of this Feature
• Part 2: sharps and flats
• Part 3: 12 bar blues
• Part 4: B minor chord
• Part 5: scale review
• Part 6: learning songs
• Part 7: practice schedule
 
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• Index of Guitar Lessons
• Buying Your First Guitar
• How to Read Guitar Tab
• Easy to Play Songs
• Guitar Chord Library
 
In lesson one of this special feature on learning the guitar, we were introduced to the parts of the guitar, learned to tune the instrument, learned a chromatic scale, and learned Gmajor, Cmajor, and Dmajor chords. Guitar lesson two taught us to play Eminor, Aminor, and Dminor chords, an E phrygian scale, a few basic strumming patterns, and the names of the open strings. In guitar lesson three, we learned how to play a blues scale, Emajor, Amajor, and Fmajor chords, and a new strumming pattern. Lesson four introduced us to power chords, basic note names on the sixth and fifth string, and new strumming patterns. If you are not familiar with any of these concepts, it is advised that you revisit these lessons before proceeding.

What You'll Learn in Lesson Five

Get ready for a real challenge this week... lesson five will introduce a whole new type of chord that you'll use a lot in the future, the "barre chord". We'll also complete our learning of the note names on the sixth and fifth string, learn a blues shuffle and several guitar leads, as well as learn a bunch of new songs.

Are you ready? Good, let's start guitar lesson five.

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