Documents

Click on the links to get a PDF file of the document. Please feel free to print these documents and use them as learning resources!

Rick's Guitar School Policy Sheet: READ AND SIGN THIS BEFORE TAKING LESSONS!

Tips and Advice for Absolute Beginners: If you are just beginning your guitar adventure, read this document. Here is advice on choosing and purchasing a guitar, tips for learning, practicing, staying committed, and accomplishing your goals.

Practice Routine: Many great guitarists have developed a "practice routine" that they have consistently used and that has helped make them great by diligently following the routine through many years and hours and hours of practice.

Practice Log: Great idea for charting your lessons and making yourself accountable

Goal Sheet: Chart your goals. Ask yourself what you want to accomplish, write it down, and then do it.

Practice! Practice! Practice!: A primer on the importance of practice!


Blank Tablature Paper: Print as many as you need!

Blank Chord Diagram Paper: Keep all your chords in one place Print as many as you need!

Blank Musical Staff Paper: Practice writing, reading, and composing music the traditional way.

Blank Fretboard Diagram Paper: Print as many as you wish!

Basic Chord Chart: Print this and put it up on your wall. Learn chords.

Massive Chord Chart: Print this out and use it as wallpaper for your bedroom!

Guitar Scales and Modes: Learn about guitar scales and their different modes

Guitar Chords Theory and Practice: Major, minor, and barre chords explained