The John Flynn School Of Guitar

Lead Guitar

• Introduction to Minor and Major Pentatonic Scales
• Scale exercises, Developments and Techniques
• Classic solos taught note for note,
• and analysed showing how they were improvised from scales in 1 above
• Improvisation using Minor and Major Pentatonic Scales from Blues to Rock to Jazz
• Major Diatonic Scale use, combining arpeggios
• Music theory, the 12 keys and linking scales to chord sequences
• Modulation
• More advanced chord shapes (i.e. Jazz Chords)
• The seven Modes: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian modes
• Minor Scales: The Natural Minor Scale, The Harmonic Scale and The Melodic (or Jazz) Minor Scale,          Whole Tone and Diminished (Whole - Half Tone Scale), Altered Dominant and Half-Whole Tone Scales
• Chord Substitution and its theory
• More advanced solos with analysis
• How to play 'by ear'
• Reading Tablature for Guitar
• Reading music for Guitar
• Chord construction,
• Enharmonic spelling of chords
• Performance for Junior and Leaving Certificate
• Composition and understanding song construction.