Lessons For Beginner Guitarists

This section has been made for the beginner guitarist who is looking for quick access to lessons available that are more suitable to the beginner guitarist as opposed to the intermediate or advanced guitarist.

This is a compilation of lessons found in other areas of this website. For example, the lessons found here on chords can also be found in our section that is exclusively on chords but the chord section will also have lessons more suitable to advanced guitarists.

This listing focuses on any lessons on any topic that would be useful for the beginner guitarist.

How To Tune Your Guitar (Standard Tuning)

Part I - The Strings On The Guitar - EADGBE
Part II - Tuning The Low E String
Part III - Tuning The Rest Of Your Guitar

Introduction To Guitar Tabs - How to read the most basic guitar tabs

Right Hand Positioning - Where to put your right hand on the guitar

Strumming The Guitar - How to strum your guitar

Basic Picking - The basics for picking correctly on the guitar

How To Read Guitar Chord Diagrams - Learn the language of guitar chord diagrams

The 9 Basic Guitar Chords

Part I - C Major, G Major, D Major, E Minor, E Major, A Minor, A Major, D Minor and F Major.

Barre chords

Power Chords - Crank up your amp and play these guitar chords

How To Read Guitar Scale Diagrams - Learn the language of guitar scale diagrams

Your First Guitar Scale/The Pentatonic Scale - The first scale guitarists learn

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Tuning The Rest Of The Guitar

The same method is used to tune the next two strings, the D string and the G string. Fret the 5th fret on the A string and that gives the note D, you can now tune your D string in comparison to the 5th fret of the A string. Once the D string is tuned, do the same for the G string. Fret the 5th fret on the D string and that gives the Note G and you can now tune the G string. The B string is tuned with the same method but instead of fretting the 5th fret of the G string, you fret the 4th and tune in comparison to the 4th fret, not the 5th. You should now just have the High E string to tune. In this case, we go back to the original method of fretting in comparison to the 5th fret of the previous string. The following diagram will help illustrate the entire tuning process. You should now be able to tune your guitar. It may take a while for a beginner but you should get it. If your having trouble, read through the material again. The above diagram should illustrate the method clea...

How To Read Guitar Scale Diagrams

Scale diagrams are an easy and effective way of learning how to play new scales. A scale diagram is essentially just a grid. But viewing the grid in comparison to the guitar neck is what makes it useful. Take a look at the following diagram. As shown, the vertical lines represent the 6 guitar strings, while the horizontal lines represent the guitar frets with the top most horizontal line being the guitar nut. This is a graphic representation of the guitar neck. Picture your guitar pointed to the sky with the strings facing you. By adding circles to the diagram we now have information on which strings need to be played and which frets need to be fretted. The above demonstrates the popular pentatonic scale, one of the first scales guitarists learn. As indicated, you start with the top left dot which is really the lowest note of the scale, play the next dot on the same string and then move to the A string and play the top dot. This pattern continues until you reach the highest...

Right Hand Positioning

here are many different positions for the right hand depending on what type of picking technique you are using. There is the standard pick technique, folk fingerstyle, classical fingerstyle, thumbpick style, ect. This lesson will focus on the most used technique of them all, the standard pick technique. There are many different types of picks. In fact there are too many coming in all different shapes, sizes and colors. A beginner guitarist needs to pick which type of pick they want to use. It is a good idea to start with a standard pick with a medium gauge (medium thickness) but you should also go to your local music store and take a look at all the different types of picks or anytime you're playing with other guitarists, ask to take a look at their picks and try them out. You will soon find one type of pick that you prefer over others. During this process and after when you have chosen your favorite type of pick, it's important that you hold the pick the right way. The pic...

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