Note: This is all included with a Full Access Membership to the site as well!

Overview

The Newbie Course consists of 61 lessons, which are a combination of song and concept lessons. As you work your way though the course, the lessons get progressively harder. Each song that is taught coincides with the concept(s) from the current module that you are on. This way you can see how the concepts apply to popular songs. Also included are ALL of the song lessons that are available on Zombie Guitar. Currently there are around 75 song lessons in total.

Newbie Course Outline

Module 1 - Getting Started

• Tuning your guitar
• Electric or Acoustic?
• Frets, strings and fingers
• How to hold the pick
• Basic electric guitar functions
• Basic electric guitar effects
• Amp basics and buying your first one
• Using amp simulation software instead of an amp

Module 2 - The Internet is Your Best Friend

• Effectively using the internet to learn songs
• How to read TABs
• How to read chord diagrams
• What is meant by a lick, riff or phrase?
• Basic noise prevention techniques
• Slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs
• Bends
• [Song] Stone Temple Pilots - Plush (intro only)

Module 3 - Let's Start Actually Applying this Stuff Now!

• Getting creative with "Basic Chords"
• [Song] Alice in Chains - Nutshell
• Making use of 'Pivot Fingers' to help with chord changes
• Targeting the root note to help with chord changes
• Basic strumming concepts
• [Song] Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life
• A little bit of 'theory' that will go a LONG way
• [Song] The Beatles - Let it be (played in 2 different keys)

Module 4 - Using Movable Chords

• Knowing the notes on the fretboard (at least on the low E-string and A-string)
• Power chords
• Using power chords to 'simplify' more complex chord progressions
• [Song] Nirvana - Smells like Teen Spirit
• [Song] Green Day - When I Come Around
• Major and minor barre chords
• "Abbreviated" major and minor barre chords
• [Song] The Beatles - We can Work it out
• Using a Capo
• [Song] Oasis - Wonderwall

Module 5 - Three Challenging Songs

• Module 5 introduction
• [Easy Song] Pink Floyd - Wish you Were Here
• [Medium Song] Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (intro only)
• [Hardest Song] The Eagles - Hotel California (intro only w/capo)

Module 6 - Different Types of Rhythm Patterns

• Module 6 introduction
• The 'upbeat strum'
• [Song] The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression that I get
• Picking the individual notes of each chord on adjacent strings
• [Song] The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
• String skipping
• [Song] Radiohead - Street Spirit (fade out)

Module 7 -  Understanding Keys

• Module 7 introduction
• What is a major key?
• What is a minor key?
• The relative relationship between major and minor keys
• [Song] The Doobie Brothers - Listen to the Music
• The parallel relationship between major and minor keys
• [Song] Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

Module 8 - Lead Guitar Basics

• Module 8 introduction
• The pentatonic scale
• The "blue note"
• The diatonic scale
• The "home box"
• The upper and lower extensions
• The "A-string home box"
• [Song] Metallica - Nothing Else Matters (solo only)
• [Song] The Beatles - Let it be (solo only)

Module 9 - Sample Licks in the "Home Box"

• 10 sample licks

Module 10 - Sample Licks in the "A-String Home Box"

• 5 sample licks

Song and "Solo Analysis" Lessons

Also included is the entire library of song and "solo analysis" lessons. There's a little over 75 song/solo lessons in total. 

Full Songs

• Avenged Sevenfold – Unholy Confessions
• Boston – Peace of Mind
• Candlebox – Far Behind
• Cinderella – Gypsy Road
• Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms
• Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing
• Eagles – Hotel California
• Foo Fighters – Hey, Johnny Park!
• Guns ‘n Roses – Don’t Cry
• Heart – Crazy on You
• Iron Maiden – The Trooper
• Jason Aldean – My Kinda Party
• Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower
• Kansas – Carry on my Wayward Son
• Led Zeppelin – The Rover
• Muse – Hysteria
• New Found Glory – King of Wishful Thinking
• Ozzy Osbourne – No More Tears
• Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
• Pink Floyd – Time
• Queen – Crazy Little Thing Called Love
• Rage Against the Machine – Bombtrack
• Rolling Stones – Monkey Man
• Sublime – Santeria
• Tool – The Pot
• U2 – Where the Streets Have no Name
• Velvet Revolver – Fall to Pieces
• Who – Love Reign O’er Me
• Yes – Owner of a Lonely Heart
• ZZ Top – La Grange

Solo Analysis Lessons

• Aerosmith – Walk this Way (Solo #1)
• Aerosmith – Walk this Way (Solo #2)
• Aerosmith – Walk this Way (Solo #3)
• Beatles – Let it Be (Main Solo)
• Beatles – Something
• Black Sabbath – Planet Caravan (Improv Analysis)
• Blind Melon – No Rain (Main Solo)
• Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing (Solo #1)
• Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing (Solo #2)
• Greatful Dead – Dear Mr. Fantasy/Hey Jude Cover (10-9-89) (Improv Analysis)
• Guns n Roses – November Rain (Solo #1)
• Hollywood Fats – Caledonia (Improv/Solo Analysis)
• Jimmy Vaughn – Just a Teenie Weenie Bit of Your Love (Improv Analysis)
• Jorma Kaukonen and Ruthie Foster – Long Time Gone (Improv Analysis)
• Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven (Main Solo)
• Metallica – Nothing Else Matters (Main Solo)
• Metallica – One (Intro Solo)
• Metallica – Sanitarium (Solo #1)
• Phish – Reba (Improv Analysis)
• Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb (Solo #1)
• Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb (Solo #2)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication (Main Solo)
• Santana – Smooth
• Sublime – Santeria (Main Solo)
• Warren Haynes w/ Gov’t Mule – Beautifully Broken (Improv Analysis)

Songs from the "Newbie Course"

• Alice in Chains – Nutshell
• The Animals – House of the Rising Sun
• The Beatles – Let it Be (Intro Only, Played in 2 Different Keys)
• The Beatles – Let it Be (Solo Only)
• The Beatles – We Can Work it out
• The Doobie Brothers – Listen to the Music
• The Eagles – Hotel California (Intro Only w/Capo)
• Green Day – When I Come Around
• Led Zeppelin – Black Dog (Intro)
• Metallica – Nothing Else Matters (Solo Only)
• The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – The Impression that I get
• Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
• Oasis – Wonderwall
• Pink Floyd – Wish you were Here
• Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
• Stone Temple Pilots – Plush (Intro)
• Third Eye Blind – Semi-Charmed Life

Note: You will also have access to any new song or solo analysis lessons that are added to the site!

Give it a shot. If you decide within the first 30 days that you don't like it, just ask for your money back, and we'll give you a full refund!

Note: This is all included with a Full Access Membership to the site as well!