Guitar Lessons For Beginners

If you're just getting started you've come to the right place. The following lessons, will start getting your fingers ready for playing. The lessons are designed to be really simple and all have downloadable sound files.

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Lesson # Lesson Topic Lesson Description
Intro Guitar Strings - Anatomy - Tuning Upper half of the guitar, how to tune your guitar, info on guitar strings
1 Guitar Tablature - First String Exercises Tablature, the hand, basic start with one string
2 Guitar Second String Exercises Playing strings 1 and 2.
3 Guitar Finger Exercises Playing all strings.
4 Guitar Chords E - Em Intro to chords, chords E and Em
5 Guitar Chords A - Am A, Am chords, chord transitions
6 Guitar Chords D - G - C Chords D,G & C
7 Guitar Chords F - Fm Chords F, Fm
8 Guitar Chord Progressions Simple chord progressions.
8b Guitar Chords A7 - D7 - E7 Chords B7, C7
8c Guitar Chords B7 - C7 Chords B7, C7
9 Guitar Power Chords Power Chords
10 Guitar Slide
Guitar Slide Reversed (Part 2)
How to play the guitar slide technique.
11 Guitar Bend How to perform the guitar string bend technique.
12 Guitar Hammer On How to perform the hammer on technique.
13 Guitar Pull Off How to perform the pull off technique.
14 Guitar Technique Practice Lesson reviews the slide and bend technique by incorporating them together.
15 Guitar Tremolo This lesson will teach you how to play a guitar tremolo.
16 Barre Chords This lesson will teach you how to play a barre chords.
17 Theory - Notes on the Guitar Do you know what notes you are playing? Very important!
18 Guitar Chord Construction How to identify what chord you are playing.