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In His Image Art and Joyful Sound Music 6-12: Guitar Lesson

Is your homeschool student interested in learning how to play the guitar?  This course will help your homeschool student learn guitar-playing basics; basics that she will need in order to go on to improve her skills through practice and higher-level guitar classes.  Our class will teach your homeschool student about chords and strumming, and by the end of this course your student will be able to play entire songs.  This is just the course your homeschool student needs in order to start on an exciting journey of guitar playing and appreciation of guitar music. A guitar is not included in the homeschool course.


 1: Introduction to Guitar

 2: Playing Technique

 3: Picking, Chords & Guitar Types

 4: Guitar Types

 5: The Fretboard and Standard Notation

 6: Tablature and Quiz

 7: Chords

 8: Review, Exercises, and Practice

 9: New Chords, Exercises, and Practice

10: Mastering the Basic Major Chords

11: Strengthening Your Technique

12: Review and Quiz

13: Mastering the Basic Minor Chords

14: Mastering the 7th Chords

15: Power Chords and Barre Chords

16: Strengthening Your Technique 2

17: Major and Minor Scales

18: Review and Midterm

19: Intro to Melodies and Picking

20: Learning Modes

21: Discovering Improvisation

22: Movable Power Chords

23: Major Chord Inversions

24: Review and Quiz

25: 12-Bar Blues and Technique

26: Rhythm Studies

27: Strumming Patterns

28: Intensive Scale Study

29: Gym Class for Guitar

30: Review and Quiz

31: Composition

32: Advanced Soloing

33: Alternate Tunings

34: Caring for Your Guitar

35: Final Tips

36: Review and Final Exam