Music Styles
Early 60’s/70’s Classic Rock
– Chuck Berry, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Brian May
– Carlos Santana, Ace Frehley

Modern 80’s Rock:
– Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, Steve Morse, Joe Satriani
– Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert, Eric Johnson
– LA Studio Greats (S. Lukather, M. Landau, D. Huff

Single Strings
– The major scale
– Three-note-per-string concept
– Economy Picking
– Four-note-per-string concept
– Modal Concepts
– Mega Chops Guitar Major

Chord Concepts
– Dom7 Chord Scales
– Maj7,M7 and M7b5 chord scales
– CAGED and altered chords
– Slash Chords
– Poly Chords
– Quart harmonics
– Open Tuning

Music Styles
90’s Alternative Rock:
– Metallica, Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Red Hot Chilli Peppers
– Zakk Wylde, John Petrucci

2000’s Rock
– KORN, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Slipknot
– Punk Revival (Old school Punk), John 5, Guthrie Govan

Single Strings
– Harmonic Minor
– String skipping, scales, arpeggios
– Two-Hand Tapping
– Melodic minor
– Two-Hand Tapping, Pentatonic and Major Scales
– Two-Hand Tapping and Arpeggios
– Eight-Finger-Tapping

Chord Concepts
– The Step Four Chords of Harmonic Minor
– Fourth chords of Harmonic Minor
– The step four chords of Melodic Minor
– Fourth chords of melodic minor
– Major harmonic step four chords
– Major chords of fourths

Music Styles
Pop:
– The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Andy Summers, The Edge
– Mark Knopfler, Michael Landau, BritPop
Country
– Special country playing techniques
– Old School Country Guitar (M. Carter, M. Travis, C. Atkins, J. Cash)
– Albert Lee, Brian Setzer, Brad Paisley, Keith Urban

Single Strings
– Harmonic Major
– The whole tone scale
– The semitone scale
– Chromaticism
– Chromatic Target Tones
– 12-tone rows
– Octave Dispersion
– Color Note Improvisi
– Exotic Scales

Chord Concepts
– Walking Bass
– Chord Progressions – Chord Connections
– Reharmonization of Chord Progressions
– Chord Melody

Music Styles
Classical Guitar & Latin Music
– Classical Guitar History – Style analysis
– Playing technique
– Repertoire
– Latin – History – Style analysis
– Rhythm Patterns
– Repertoire

Fusion
– History – Style analysis
– John McLaughlin
– Al DiMeola
– Allan Holdsworth
– John Scofield
– Mike Stern
– West Coast Fusion (Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Lee Ritenour)
– Frank Gambale
– Scott Henderson
– div. artists (Jimmy Hering, Brett Garsed, Wayne Krantz, Oz Noy etc)

Jazz
– History – Style analysis
– Charlie Christian
– Django Rheinardt
– Barney Kessel
– Wes Montgomery
– Joe Pass
– George Benson
– Pat Martino
– Pat Metheny
– Joe Diorio
– Charlie Parker
– Miles Davis
– John Coltrane
– Michael Brecker
– div. artists ( Howard Roberts, Ted Greene, Lenny Breau u.a.)