Music Theory & Improvisation for Nylon String Guitar

This lesson collection gives you a complete system for understanding the fretboard, making sense of music theory, and improvising creatively and confidently on the nylon-string guitar. You’ll learn:

✔ Fretboard Logic & the CAGED System (Made Simple)

• How CAGED really works (and when it doesn’t)

• Major + minor chord forms and how to connect them across the neck

• Variations, shape transitions, and real musical applications

• The Andalusian cadence through CAGED shapes

• Spanish-guitar examples that reveal how pros use these patterns

• “Connecting the dots” exercises — even without a guitar

✔ Improvisation Tools & Scale Mastery

• Step-by-step improvisation challenges (A minor, Andalusian, Tempestad, etc.)

• Seeing scales as fragments, not giant shapes

• How to flip riffs and chord progressions into new keys

• Modes explained clearly (including Phrygian vs. Phrygian Dominant)

• Interval understanding through real music (e.g., Miserlou)

• How to turn any idea into your own rumba or soloing pattern

✔ The 12 Key Challenge (Your Path to True Fluency)

• 5 essential scale shapes for understanding all keys

• Circle of 5ths breakdown + rules for navigating modulations

• Sharp keys, flat keys, and modal sounds across the neck

• Full run-through of all 12 keys

• “Leveling Up” challenge for real mastery

• Play-along loops from 80–120 bpm

✔ Chord Theory for the Nylon-String Player

• Phrygian vs. Phrygian Dominant explained

• Beautiful arpeggio shapes + theory applications

• Instant Spanish-guitar chord tricks for authentic color

• Walking bass line techniques

• Tritone substitution & jazz-meets-flamenco concepts

• Full play-along videos for application

✔ Rhythm Concepts That Change the Way You Play

• Quarter-note triplets, hemiola, and cross-rhythms

• Milonga, bulerías, and rumba rhythm integration

• R&B/Soul rhythm ideas adapted for nylon string

• Polyrhythm challenges (Techno Slap + 11/8 timing)

• Strumming Bootcamp: the 4 core rhythmic values, mixing patterns, ties, percussive hits, and more

• 5 rhythms every nylon-string guitarist must know

✔ Guitar Improvisation Loops (Real Musical Backing Tracks)

Learn to solo and improvise over progressions inspired by:

• Adelita

• Blue Bossa (with PDF guide)

• Entre Dos Aguas — A, B, and C sections

• Pharaon

• Oye Como Va

• Gipsy Kings–style progressions

• Blues, Rumba, Dorian, and Mixolydian grooves
  …plus several full 12-bar blues templates.

✔ Single-Chord Loops for Arpeggio & Technique Mastery

Develop improvisation, tone, timing, and arpeggio clarity through loops in every key and style, including:

• Rumba

• Tango

• Bossa Nova

• Waltz

• Reggae

• Soleá por bulerías

• 6/8 feels

• Rock & Pop

• Bolero

• Farruca

• Alternating-bass patterns
  …and dozens more—every major and minor key included.

 This one lesson collection gives you fretboard mastery, music theory clarity, improvisation skills, rhythmic fluency, and practical backing tracks—all tailored specifically for nylon-string, classical, and flamenco-influenced guitarists.