Beginner’s Course – Learning to Play Guitar!

I wrote the beginner’s guitar course to be a 3-6 month set of lessons for someone who just started to play guitar.

First, the beginner course shows you how to hold the guitar, tune the guitar. 

Then, it goes through and shows how to play simple chords and melodies. 

It does not teach you how to play famous songs, mostly because of copyright concerns.  Most of the chords in the very beginning are simpler to play than chords you would find in a pop tune, anyways.

Also, I believe it’s better to start playing by ear. You can learn to read after studying music for 6 months, if you’d like.

Once you realize you can almost immediately solo after picking up the guitar, the musical possibilities unfold! 

Creating melodies has more of a conceptual learning curve than learning chords, so it’s more a question of exercising your musical imagination than trying to get your fingers to play a barre chord!

Rhythm – the foundation of music.

Even if you are still learning your first note, you can still play in time.  Just tap the guitar in time to the music. See you already are playing guitar!  Seriously, playing even the simplest musical part, even tapping the guitar contributes enormously to making great music.

The main points for this whole beginner course are:

• keep your hands relaxed
• keep your guitar in tune
• play in time, with the rhythm
• musicality always beats technicality
• practice too slow instead of too fast
• play along to records whenever you can
• play with other people whenever you can

Best wishes!

Beginner Guitar Course

• Introduction
• 1 – Starting out
• 2 – Spanish chords
• 3 – Basic folk
• 4 – Hypnotic chords
• 5 – Blues in A
• 6 – Blues in G
• 7 – 4 chord rock n roll in G
• 8 – 4 chord rock n roll
• 9 – Harmonic minor
• 10 – Reggae
• 11 – Power chords
• 12 – Blues + bar chords

Practice Makes Progress!

May you enjoy your musical journeys! Remember just a little practice every day will add up and you’ll gradually make progress!