A complete, step-by-step guitar course: sixteen illustrated lessons in three modules, with practice plans, printable handouts and an ear trainer — for the price of a single lesson elsewhere.
Each lesson is a written, illustrated script — chord and fretboard diagrams, a practice plan, and a printable handout — building in order from your first chord to your first solo.
Your hands, your ears and the fretboard: everything you need before chords make sense.
Parts of the guitar, how to hold it, string names and tuning.
The two diagrams you'll read for the rest of your playing life, plus finger drills.
The staff, note values, and the notes on strings 1 and 2.
Notes on strings 3–6, ties, dots, eighth notes, sharps and flats.
Every open chord that matters, moveable barre chords, and the strumming that makes them music.
Fourteen essential open chords in three groups, with change drills.
Colour chords, three core strumming patterns, and chords grouped by key.
Moveable 6th- and 5th-string barre shapes, the notes along both bass strings, and how major scales and key signatures work.
Keep the hand going: eighth-note strumming, ties, accents, and intervals.
Fingerstyle, pentatonic and blues soloing, expressive techniques, rock, jazz colours, and how to build a solo.
Three picking-hand patterns, the alternating-bass style, and a classical study approach.
What a pentatonic is, the five connected shapes, and patterns that turn shapes into phrases.
The blues scale, the twelve-bar progression, and triads.
Slides, bends, hammer-ons, pull-offs, palm muting and octaves.
Power chords, the harmonized major scale, sliding fourths and chicken pickin'.
Sixteenth notes and accents, three-note-per-string scales, and seventh chords.
Colour tones, the ii–V–I, chord melody, and the formulas behind every chord name.
Choosing notes, using chord tones, developing ideas, and training your ear.
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An interval and chord trainer that plays a sound and asks you to name it. Three levels, melodic or harmonic. It is free to use — the lessons tell you when to reach for it.
Open the Ear TrainerYes. $9.00 once, for every lesson and the Ear Trainer, for as long as the site exists. No subscription.
No — Lesson 3 teaches it from scratch, and the chord and fretboard diagrams carry you until then.
Either. Everything until Module 3 is identical on both; the electric-specific tools are one lesson.
Each lesson suggests a time (one to four weeks at 15 minutes a day). Most people finish in six to nine months; there is no deadline.