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Strong Foundations for the Guitarist by Jared Meeker is a course designed for the complete beginning guitarist, showing them a clear method to become an intermediate guitarist in 12 fun and rocking classes. 

1. Class 1 covers parts of the guitar, tuning, basic technique for fretting and picking hands, and learning several melodies on one string at a time.
2. Class 2 covers reading standard music notation, alternate picking. reading rhythms, and basic melodies in first position.
3. Class 3 covers chord diagrams, strumming and slash rhythms. As well we will review reading music from the previous class.
4. Class 4 covers reading Tablature and students will learn several popular riffs that move across adjacent strings, using riffs from Nirvana, Aerosmith and more. As well, we will continue to work on open chords and chord transitions.
5. Class 5 covers more chord strumming patterns and bass chord patterns.
6. Class 6 covers power chords and goes in depth into palm-muting and left-hand dampening to play riffs by Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Journey, and more.
7. Class 7 covers basic chord theory and blues guitar basics. 
8. Class 8 goes into barre chord basics and several songs that use a few barre chords, featuring songs by the Beatles, CCR, etc.
9. Class 9 covers left-hand techniques such as slides and hammer-ons and pull-offs. These will be explored through riffs by bands such as the Rolling Stones, the Eagles, the Bee Gees, etc.
10. Class 10 covers Chord Riffs where students will learn more advanced use of sliding chords in the style of Jimi Hendrix, Dire Straits, and more. We will also go over guitar exercises to increase speed and strength.
11. Class 11 goes over various kinds of finger-picking. We will study Travis picking and how it is used in various songs by the Beatles, Kansas, and Led Zeppelin.
12. Class 12 will cover lead guitar playing and go through several note-for-note solos. 

This class will provide a thorough understanding of guitar basics and an overview on what it takes to go from a beginner to an intermediate guitar player.  A little bit of practice in this class can lead to a lifetime of love for music.