Music Principles for the Skeptical Guitarist, Volume 1: The Big Picture

• The Key of C
• Scale degrees and other keys
• The Key of G
• Worksheet for Major scales
• Traveling by Fifths
• Major scale summary
• The flat keys
• The fretboard and the keyboard
• Major scale exercises
• Back to Chord Families
• The C Harmonized Diatonic scale
• Major chords versus Minor chords
• Four combinations of Thirds Other
• Chord Families
• Worksheets for Chord Families
• C-A-G-E-D Chord Family summary Example: "Morning Has Broken"
• Full Chord Family summary
• Transposition chart
• Details of the 1-4-5 relationship
• The Dominant 7th chord
• Overlapping Chord Families
• Chord substitutions
• Triad spellings
• My Bio
• The Circle of Fifths
• More on Secondary Dominants
• Examples in the Key of C
• Down by a 5th = up by a 4th
• Backcycling through all the keys
• C-A-G-E-D Chord Family examples
• Mixing in the Minor chords
• The Jazz Turnaround
• "Morning Has Broken" again
• The Major scale
• Layout on the neck
• The Chromatic scale
• The Second Approach
• "Rhythm Changes" Secondary Dominants Bunches of useful chords (A-G)
• Songs in the Keys of G and C
• Adding the Minor chords
• Quiz time for the 1-4-5's Finding the starting note
• Using the capo
• Choosing the right key
• "Silent Night" in all 5 keys
• The 1, 4 and 5 chords Songs in different keys
• Songs in different keys
• The 1 and 5 chords
• Chord Families
• C-A-G-E-D examples
• The 1-4-5 system
• Playing in different keys
• The Big Fifteen chords
• Chords and chord quality
• Tuning the guitar
• The layout of the notes
• Notes and pitches
• The First Approach
• Yuletide Backcycling in a the C-A-G-E-D keys Starting notes
• Shortcuts in terminology
• The 4th of the 4th
• Major 7th and Minor 7th chords
• Minor keys
• C Major versus A Minor
• Three kinds of Minor scales
• Carols in the Keys of Am, Dm, and Em
• Appendix 1: Why the number "five"?
• Appendix 2: Key signatures
• Volume One in a nutshell
• One last quiz

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