Beginner Guitar Lessons

I suppose “The Most Popular Chord Progression of All Time” may be a slightly pretentious title; however I think if you start looking into this a bit more, you… [more]

One of the things that beginner guitar players have a lot of difficulty with is getting a good clear sound out of their chords. I know, I’ve suffered through hearin… [more]

In this lesson, you’ll learn the Knocking on Heavens Door chords for guitar. This is one of those great guitar songs for beginners to learn because it uses basic ch… [more]

Today’s lesson on guitar chord embellishments is a great one for beginner guitar players, but also you guys who are a bit more advanced and are still looking for a … [more]

It seems as though there’s a widespread myth out there that the acoustic guitar is a completely different instrument than the electric guitar, and that subsequently… [more]

Some of you have asked me how to do a hammer on guitar, so this lesson is going to address that. A hammer on is very simply hitting a guitar string without plucking or pi… [more]

This guitar lesson is a pretty basic one (sliding between notes), but hopefully it still contains some useful tips for you. I wanted to talk briefly about ‘sliding … [more]

Strumming always seems to be an issue when you’re starting out playing guitar. I’ve done a couple different lessons on strumming before, but I though this tim… [more]

Personally I love just grabbing my guitar… and noodling. I’ll pick a key, whatever strikes my interest at that moment, and start noodling just for enjoyment&#… [more]

Here’s a good song to practice your bar chords on: All Along The Watchtower. Many different artists have done versions of this song over the years. It’s a pre… [more]

This one is a very basic, very quick little lesson – probably relevant only for the real beginners out there, but understanding the guitar root notes for each chord… [more]

One of the most common questions that beginners ask me is “How to use a guitar tuner?” So I thought I would make a quick lesson here on how to use a digital g… [more]

Today’s guitar lesson is on the art of strumming, specifically, blues guitar strumming. As you’ll see, I initially started this strumming lesson using G C and… [more]

You don’t see too many people using guitar capo’s – in fact I know some guitar players jokingly call them ‘lady fingers’ – but the fac… [more]

One of the questions I’ve been asked now and again is ‘What chords sound good together?‘ Well, there are a couple of ways for me to answer that question… [more]

The open D chord can actually be a lot of fun. For the purposes of this lesson, I’m assuming that by now you at least know some of the basic open chord formations&#… [more]

I recently ran a poll asking you guys what you wanted to learn most on the guitar, and guitar picking came in a dead tie with strumming (both at 26%) and seeing as I̵… [more]

Here’s a guitar lesson for beginners on guitar strumming. One of the most common things that I’ve heard from you fine folk is you’re having difficulties… [more]

When I was first learning guitar, a friend of mine wrote a song that had this cool passing note (an F#) in between the G chord and the Em chord. I thought it was the cool… [more]

A lot of you beginners have mentioned to me that you’re at the stage where you’re working on chords, so I thought that today I would bring you a handy little … [more]

Ever wondered how to tune a guitar by ear? Well, here’s a cool trick that I use to tune my guitar by ear. Wherever possible, you should try to get a reference note.… [more]

Here’s a guitar lesson on how to play the Last Dance With Mary Jane chords by Tom Petty. I didn’t address the riffs in this song, as this video is targeted to… [more]

Learning the string names on your guitar is an absolute must; there’s no two ways about it. Understanding tones and semitones allows you to figure out what any note… [more]

In this video I show you how to use 4 chord formations to create 48 different chords. The 4 basic chord patterns are shown below: 6 – 5 – 4 – 3 – … [more]