Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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Part 1 of a 3-part (for now) YouTube series, designed for guitarists who want to get their feet wet with the basics of music theory. This part covers the "musical alphabet" and the major scale, two of the most essential ideas that you need to have a grasp on before you can get much further.

Part 2 of the series: youtu.be/dIy7lKfMRGQ
Part 3 of the series: youtu.be/ZY8-xJXntqE

Here are links to a few free PDFs that will be helpful:
highcountryguitar.com/pdfs-for-download

Hit up highcountryguitar.com for the rest of this series, and a mountain of other free resources for improvising guitarists. Lots of material for Grateful Dead & Phish fans too.

NOW INTRODUCING the Base Camp guitar course, a complete course designed for late beginning to intermediate players who want to solidify their knowledge of the fretboard so they can be free to play and create in any musical context. Available at highcountryguitar.com