Here are some of the methods and supplemental material that I use as guitar curriculum. This curriculum includes music theory training to 2nd year college level minus a few parts of theory that are are no longer relevant (such as figured bass).
Beginner Level
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- This book is actually all 3 of their guitar method books bound together.
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- This is very similar to the Hal Leonard book. I prefer the Hal Leonard course.
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- The book has 4400 guitar chords in it. The easier ones are reverse print so you can find them.
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- This is a good introduction to playing scales of all types, including modes.
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- This is for very young beginners.
Intermediate Level
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- How to pick out scale-based melodies over chord changes.
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- This is an excellent theory book for guitarists.
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- Terrific, hands-on book that teaches the whole guitar neck and plenty of theory to go with it.
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- This is an older method that I still like to use for some students.
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- This concentrates on picking melodies that fit over chords and inversions.
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- Nice collection of oldies
Advanced Level
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- If you really want blazing velocity, this book is full of exercises to get you there.
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- Tom Kolb takes you through both technical and theoretical ways to come up with killer solos.
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- In this book, you learn the sounds of all the modes and how to apply them.
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- If you want to learn to play jazz guitar, start here. Not for beginners, though. Lots of theory.
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- This book is very good at applying chord inversions to allow you to create solos that are self accompanied.
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- Alan de Mause finger style jazz solos