Free course · 11 lessons
Guitar Basics
Eleven short lessons on the basics: holding and choosing a guitar, changing strings, tuning by ear, reading tab and finding your way around the neck.
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Course details
- Type
- Free course
- Lessons
- 11 lessons
- Duration
- 11 videos · about 46m
- Level
- Beginner
- Focus
- Technique
Lessons
- Part 1How To Hold A GuitarThe right way to sit and hold the guitar, so both hands are free to do their job.
- Part 2How To Choose A Guitar — Part 1What to look for when you pick your first guitar, or your next one.
- Part 3How To Choose A Guitar — Part 2More on choosing a guitar, answering the questions viewers sent in.
- Part 4How To Change A Guitar StringChange a string step by step, from taking the old one off to tuning up the new one.
- Part 5How To Tune Without A TunerTune the guitar to itself by ear, string by string, with no tuner.
- Part 6How To Read Guitar Tabs — EasyStart reading fingerstyle tab: what the lines and numbers mean, with simple examples to play.
- Part 7How To Read Guitar Tabs — AdvancedThe next step in reading fingerstyle tab, with harder examples.
- Part 8How To Find Any Note On The GuitarFind any note anywhere on the neck.
- Part 9How To Use The CAGED SystemUse the five CAGED shapes to find any chord up the neck, with the theory behind it.
- Part 10How To Remember What You've StudiedMake what you practise stick, so it's still there next time you pick up the guitar.
- Part 11How To Play Guitar At The Next LevelHow to take your playing on once the basics are in place.