In first lesson you will learn something about:

- duration of different kind of notes
- triplets
- C Major Scale
- A Minor Scale
- picking
- Palm Mute
- tritones

You will also learn 2 exercises: simple speed exercise 
and simple stretch exercise.

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Ex. 1 - You should know that there are several kinds of 
notes:

1a) Whole Notes
1b) Half Notes
1c) Quarter Notes
1d) Eight Notes
1e) Sixteen Notes and so on...

Duration of one whole note (Bar 1) is equal to 
duration of two half notes (Bar 2). Duration of one 
half note is equal to duration of two quarter notes or 
four eight notes, et caetera... Listen to example 1 to 
understand how does it work.

Ex. 2 - This example shows you what an triplet is. The  
duration of half notes triplet is equal to duration of one 
whole note. Duration of one quarter notes triplet is 
equal to duration of one half note etc... Listen to 
Example 2.

Ex. 3 - This is the C Major scale. This scale is a very 
common in popular music. To be able to play this scale 
on guitar is essential if you want to play the guitar. Just 
learn it!

Ex. 4 - This is the A Minor scale. Learn it too!

Ex. 5 - This exercise shows you what a Palm Mute is 
and how to pick strings.
 
Firstly - to get a Palm Mute move your right hand 
toward the neck of the guitar (cover a string that you 
want to mute with your palm). Notes that you should 
mute are played on muted guitar. In this exercise you 
have to mute all of the notes.

Secondly - you should play this exercise in two ways: 
with down picking (pick all the notes 
from the top) only and with (5b): down stroke, up 
stroke (pick string from the bottom), down stroke, up 
stroke method. You can learn how to pick particular 
note thanks to arrows that you can find near notes on 
tablatures. 

Ex. 6 - In this exercise you have to palm mute all the 
notes. Play it in two ways (like in Ex. 5).

Ex. 7 - Play it without Palm Mute and with down strokes 
only. This exercise includes tritones which are used 
often by for example Metallica.

Ex. 8 - Play this exercise with down stroke, up stroke, 
down stroke, up stroke method. Palm Mute all of the 
notes.

Ex. 9 - This exercise will help you to increase your 
speed. Increase tempo gradually. Play it with 
specified fingers. Rember that:

1 means: "play this note with your index finger"
2 - "... middle finger"
3 - "... eee... I forgot what is the name of fourth finger 
:)"
4 - "... little finger"

Ex. 10 - This exercise will help you to stretch your 
fingers. Try to play it - I bet you can't (if you are a 
begginer). But after some practice you will play it 
without any problems. Palm mute all notes and play it 
with down-up-down-up method. Remember - practice a 
lot!

In second lesson we will learn our first song. CU :)