| Contents |
| Selecting Your Guitar |
| Steel Strings and Nylon Strings |
| Acoustic Guitars and Electric Guitars |
| Caring for Your Guitar |
| Tuning Your Guitar |
| Tuning with the Audio Recording |
| Tuning without the Audio Recording |
| How to Hold Your Guitar |
| Strumming the Strings |
| Strumming with a Pick |
| Strumming with Your Fingers |
| Time to Strum! |
| Strumming Notation |
| Beats |
| The Quarter-Note Slash |
| The Staff and Treble Clef |
| Bar Lines, Measures, and Time Signatures |
| More Time to Strum |
| Using Your Left Hand |
| Hand Position |
| Placing a Finger on a String |
| How to Read Chord Diagrams |
| The Three-String C Chord |
| My First Chord |
| The Quarter Rest |
| Three Blind Mice |
| The Three-String G7 Chord |
| My Second Chord |
| Troubadour Song |
| Skip to My Lou |
| London Bridge |
| The Three-String G Chord |
| My Third Chord |
| Three Chords in One Song |
| Rain Comes Down |
| The Repeat Sign |
| Merrily We Roll Along |
| Love Somebody |
| The Three-String D7 Chord |
| My Fourth Chord |
| Using D7 with Other Chords |
| When the Saints Go Marching In |
| Yankee Doodle |
| Getting Acquainted with Music Notation |
| Notes |
| The Staff |
| The Musical Alphabet |
| Clefs |
| The Quarter Note |
| Clap and Count Out Loud |
| Notes on the First String: Introducing E |
| Elizabeth, the Elephant |
| The Note E with Chords |
| Note and Strum |
| Notes on the First String: Introducing F |
| Up-Down-Up |
| The Notes E and F with Chords |
| Notes on the First String: Introducing G |
| The Mountain Climber |
| The Notes E, F, and G with Chords |
| Brave in the Cave |
| Single Notes, Then Chord! Chord! Chord! |
| Pumpkin Song |
| Notes on the Second String: Introducing B |
| Two Open Strings |
| Two-String Melody |
| Jumping Around |
| Notes on the Second String: Introducing C |
| Ping Pong Song |
| Soccer Game |
| The Half Rest |
| When I Feel Best |
| Notes on the Second String: Introducing D |
| A-Choo! |
| The Half Note |
| Ode to Joy |
| Jingle Bells |
| Mary Had a Little Lamb |
| Notes on the Third String: Introducing G |
| Three Open String |
| Little Steps and Big Leaps |
| Alouette |
| Notes on the Third String: Introducing A |
| The Whole Note |
| A Is Easy! |
| Taking a Walk |
| Aura Lee |
| She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain |
| Music Matching Games |
| Diploma |