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Guitar Fundamentals 1

Step-by-Step Beginner Course

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About the course

Jump right in and get to the fun stuff! 

In Fundamentals Course 1 you’ll learn how to play guitar chords, some killer riffs, a few cornerstone scales, strumming and rhythm, how to use a guitar tuner -- and much more -- so you can get started making music.

This course comes with lifetime access to 160 video lessons that will take you from holding a guitar for the first time to playing your first tune – it’s perfect for absolute beginners! Each lesson is available in 4k and includes notation and jam tracks that make it super easy to follow-along.

Fundamentals Course 1 is hosted by Guitar Tricks instructor Anders Mouridsen, who has toured the world as a professional guitarist, sharing stages and studios with iconic artists like Taylor Swift, P!nk and John Fogerty. Now, he’s bringing all that real world knowledge and experience to you with this quintessential guitar learning course.

In this course Anders will cover:

  • Getting familiar with your guitar by learning how to hold and tune it, then moving on to learning how to navigate the fretboard to play notes more easily
  • The basics of rhythm, including how to count in time and apply rhythms to basic strumming patterns so you can begin to learn how to play real songs
  • An introduction to melody and lead guitar playing, including cornerstone scales like the pentatonic and major and finger exercises that will increase your strength and dexterity
  • How to play single-note riffs and power chords, which are the building blocks of rock and blues guitar playing
  • Basic open chords and how to transition between them within the important basic key signatures, which makes it possible to play along to virtually any song
  • The mental and physical aspect of guitar playing and how to overcome the most common problems that beginner guitarists face like impatience, frustration, finger pain, calluses, posture

We’re so confident that this course can make anyone into a guitar player. That’s why we offer a 60-day money-back guarantee. If you’re not happy with your results, let us know and we’ll give you a full refund – no questions asked.

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  • 1-1. Tuning And Playing Notes

  • 1-2. Simple Chords

  • 1-3. Playing With Fingers or Pick

  • 1-4. Chords On All Six Strings

  • 1-5. More Chords

  • 1-6. Switching Between Chords

  • 2-1. Basic Rhythmic Subdivisions

  • 2-2. Strumming Patterns

  • 2-3. 8th Notes & Upstrokes

  • 2-4. Metronome Practice

  • 3-1. One Scale, Thousands of Melodies

  • 3-2. Extending The Major Scale

  • 3-3. The Minor Pentatonic Scale

  • 3-4. Learning Note Names

  • 3-5. Fun Finger Exercises

  • 4-1. Power Chords

  • 4-2. Rock Riff #1

  • 4-3. Rock Riff #2

  • 4-4. Blues Riff #1

  • 4-5. Blues Riff #2

  • 5-1. Chord Family In The Key of G

  • 5-2. Chord Family In The Key of A

  • 5-3. Chord Family In The Key of C

  • 5-4. Chord Family In The Key of A Minor

  • 6-1. Finger Pain, Calluses, Nails and Posture

  • 6-2. Is It Me? Or Is It My Guitar?

  • 6-3. Impatience & Frustration

  • 6-4. Tuning

Guitar Fundamentals 1

Step-by-Step Beginner Course

On Sale for $99 $199
Lifetime Access