This course assumes no prior knowledge of the guitar. It will take you from "how do I hold a pick?" to basic open major chords.

This tutorial shows you how to use a standard electronic tuner to tune your guitar.

This tutorial shows you how to use the Guitar Tricks Reference Tuner to tune your guitar.

This tutorial explores the mechanics of playing the guitar in more detail; this covers the physical motions required of your arms, hands and fingers. This tutorial explores the mechanics of playing the guitar for absolute beginners in more detail; this covers the physical motions required of your arms, hands and fingers.

One of the most challenging tasks for a new guitarist can be making chord changes smoothly and quickly, without creating a pause in the music. Often times, coming up with a specific strategy for getting from one chord to the next can make all the difference. This tutorial presents four powerful tools for improving the speed of your chord changes.

This tutorial was inspired by many questions from subscribers about bass notes. Most of my technique lessons (fingerpicking, blues, Celtic, Christmas, strumming) refer to the Bass Note as an essential part of the technique. This tutorial gives a thorough explanantion of what a bass note is, how to figure out which one to use for each chord, and why it's important to right hand techniques and a var...

Holding the guitar properly is absolutely essential. It is very important to work towards making any and all motions you make while playing guitar as smooth, efficient as possible. In order to do this, we start by focusing on proper body mechanics. Start with good posture! Sit up straight and do not slouch. Next, from your shoulder, to elbow, to wrist, hand and fingers, keep your body light ...

Let's start with the pick! The pick is more formally known as the plectrum. It is a small object held by a guitarist and used to strike the strings in order to create sound. Picks come in many shapes, sizes and are made in a variety of materials. The vast majority are triangular, or tear-dropped in shape, about an inch long, a millimeter thick and are made of plastic. The pick is held b...

Here you can learn to play a blues by using barré chords. Using barré chords on blues is actually one of the most used patterns in all blues and is used by players like SRV or Eric Clapton. This is also a good test for your endurance. The more you will practice this the longer you will be able to play barré chords.

This is the introduction video for the Guitar Fundamentals 2 Course.

Guitar Fundamentals 1 & 2 will take you from the bare beginning - how do I hold the guitar? - all the way through to playing simple melodies, learning how to play all the most common major and minor chords, reading music, and ending with tutorials on how to play barre chords, the "power chords" behind most rock music. This section will show you four tutorials taken from Guitar Fundamentals 1 & ...