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Master Guitar Program Comparison Chart

Key  HHHHH = High Emphasis  mm = medium or some emphasis  l = low or optional emphasis    SKILL EMPHASIS  Rock  Singer-Songwriter Classical  Jazz/Blues  Playing with a Pick  HHHHH mm l mm Fingerstyle l mm  HHHHH l Improvising/Soloing  HHHHH mm l HHHHH  Performance Experience  mm HHHHH mm mm  Song Writing Skills  l HHHHH l l Singing  l  HHHHH  l l  Reading Music Notation mm  mm  HHHHH mm Reading Guitar TAB HHHHH mm  l mm Coordination Devel. Right/Left Hand  HHHHH  mm HHHHH HHHHH    KNOWLEDGE EMPHASIS  Rock Singer-Songwriter Classical Jazz/Blues  Chords/Bar Chords/Extended Chords  mm  mm  l  HHHHH  Major/Minor/Pentatonic Scales  HHHHH  mm  l  HHHHH  Keys  HHHHH  HHHHH  HHHHH  HHHHH  Guitars, Parts, Maintenance, Tuning  mm  mm  mm  mm  Fretboard (Name all notes.)  HHHHH  mm  HHHHH  HHHHH  Music Vocabulary  mm  mm  HHHHH  mm    Song Emphasis  Rock Singer-Songwriter Classical Jazz/Blues  Classic Rock / Guitar Rock  HHHHH  l  l  l  Folk/Indie/Alternative/Pop  mm   HHHHH  l  l  Blues  mm  l  l   HHHHH  Classical Repertoire  l  l   HHHHH  l  Writing Originals w/Lyrics  l   HHHHH  l  l  Developing a Repertoire  mm   HHHHH   HHHHH  mm  Acoustic Guitar  optional  emphasized  required  optional  Electric Guitar  emphasized  optional  no  optional