General lesson plan for beginner students.

Lesson 1:
-Familiarize the student with the fret board and individual strings
-Talk about the musical alphabet ...sharps, flats, major, minor, etc.
-Learn "Open Chords" fingerings
-practice basic rhythm patterns
-At the end of the lesson we talk about bands you like and material you would like to learn.

Lesson 2:
-Work on finger exercises
-begin working on a song with all "open chords"
-familiarize the student with basic song structures Verse, Refrain, Bridge, etc.

Lesson 3:
-work on finger exercises
-work on picking techniques
-Continue working on song from previous lesson
-add another song with all "open chords"

Lesson 4:
-Go over the two songs with all "open chords"
-Learn "Barre Chords"

Lesson 5:
-learn finger exercises to help with "barre chords"
-add a song with one or two "barre chords" in it
-continue working on two previous songs with all "open chords"

Lesson 6:
-Finger exercises for "barre chords"
-working on picking techniques
-Work on all three songs

Lesson 7:
-Learn the minor Pentatonic Scale
-Continue working on songs
-Finger exercises for "barre chords"

Lesson 8:
-practice all three songs
-add new song or learn the basics of a blues progression

Lesson 9:
-Finger exercises for "barre chords"
-Learn the Major scale
-Go over all four songs

Lesson 10:
-Review of the past nine lessons