Music Instruction

This collection of articles by Jeff Foster deals specifically with music instruction, and how to play the guitar, bass and/or 5-string banjo.

• ‘Basic Skills for Guitar’ by Stanley Garrison (c.1975)
• Basic Barre Chords
• Bass Arpeggios and Patterns
• Fingerstyle Basics 101 (video and textual tutorial)
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown (banjo tab)
• Foster’s Banjo Primer (PDF)
• Getting To Know The Fretboard (video + transcript)
• Introduction To Modes
• Melodic Banjo Basics
• On the Student-Teacher Dynamic
• Primary Keys for Guitar
• The Importance of Good Practice Habits
• The Minor Pentatonic & Blues Scales
• The Seven Categories of Chords
• What’s the most fundamental thing a student of music should learn?
• Notes On The Guitar