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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Your First Scale / The Pentatonic Scale

The first scale most guitarists learn is the minor pentatonic scale. Pentatonic may sound scary but it really isn't, it simply means 5 notes. So a pentatonic scale is just a 5 note scale. The pentatonic scale is extremely useful for guitarists. This is for a few good reasons. - Music that is commonly played on the guitar (rock, blues, country, pop, ect...) use the pentatonic scale in its melodies and improvisation. - The pentatonic scale is easily playable on the guitar with pentatonic 'boxes'. - The licks and riffs from the pentatonic scale sound amazing. With that said, lets get into the minor pentatonic scale. The following is a tab file and a scale diagram of the minor pentatonic scale in the Key of A. Didn't I say a pentatonic scale was only 5 notes. The above tab file and scale diagram feature alot more then 5 notes. Take a look at the red dots on the scale diagram, for example the 5th fret on the Low E string and High E string and the 7th fret on ...

How To Build A Barre Chord

It should be clear by now that the barre effectively replaces the use of the nut on the guitar. If not, then go back and read Part One . Once understanding the barre replaces the use of the nut, it should make sense that you could use the same basic chords in open position and apply them after the barre. Use the exact same chord shape, just replace the nut with the barre using your first finger and refinger the chord as necessary. While this method will work with all open position chords, there are four particular chord shapes, two major shapes and two minor shapes, that are essential for all guitarists. The two basic open position chords that we will be using to build our major barre chords are the E major and the A major chord forms. Let's start with the E major chord. This chord should already be familiar. If not then read up on the basic chords in open position . The two diagrams to the right is an E major chord in open position followed by an F# major barre chord. T...

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...

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