Beginner Guitar Lesson Archive

The following free guitar lessons have been created with the beginner in mind. It is suggested that new guitarists begin at lesson one, spending at least one week learning the exercises and songs in that lesson before moving on. Learning to relax while playing guitar will help immeasurably, so be sure to have fun!

Learning Guitar - Guitar Lesson One
Have you always wanted to play guitar, but never got around to actually getting started? Here is reason to begin... a free online guitar lesson, which is essentially the same lesson I teach all new students. You'll learn how to hold a guitar and pick, the names of parts of the guitar, a scale, a few chords, and a couple of songs.

Learning Guitar - Guitar Lesson Two

This free guitar lesson picks up where lesson one left off. This second beginner lesson teaches scales, names of the open strings, minor chords, strumming patterns, and songs.

Learning Guitar - Guitar Lesson Three

Lots more instruction for beginner guitarists in lesson three, including learning a blues scale, a new strumming pattern, three new chords, and many new songs.

Learning Guitar - Guitar Lesson Four
In the fourth installment of this this free guitar lesson series, we learn about power chords, note names on the sixth and fifth string, new strumming patterns, plus a whole bunch of new songs.

Learning Guitar - Guitar Lesson Five

We continue our online series of beginner lessons, this week delving into sharps and flats, learning a 12-bar blues, a B minor chord, new songs, and more. Lesson features RealAudio clips to play along to.

Learning Guitar - Guitar Lesson Six

In part six of this series designed for beginner guitarists, we learn strumming patterns, barre chord shapes, 7th chords, a chromatic scale, and new songs. Now featuring RealAudio and MP3 files.

Learning Guitar - Guitar Lesson Seven

In part seven of our ongoing free guitar lesson series designed for novices, we learn about fingerpicking, barre chords, hammer-ons, and pull-offs. Plus, as usual, we learn many new pop and rock songs to play.

Learning Guitar - Guitar Lesson Eight

In part eight of this free guitar lesson series, we examine more advanced strumming techniques, fingerpicking patterns, string bending, sliding, plus of course learn many new songs. Featuring real audio and mp3 clips.

Learning Guitar - Guitar Lesson Nine

In part nine of the beginner guitar lesson series, we examine a complex strumming technique, a two octave major scale pattern, sus4 chords, plus learn a bunch of new songs. Featuring real audio and mp3 clips.

Learning Guitar - Guitar Lesson Ten

In the tenth edition of the continuing series devoted to learning guitar online, we examine advanced bending concepts, major chord inversions, palm muting, plus take a chord quiz, and more. Featuring mp3 clips and more.

Learning Guitar - Guitar Lesson Eleven

In the most recent installment in the series of free guitar lessons, we take a look at seventh barre chord shapes, major chord inversions, strumming patterns, and of course learn many new songs.

Learning anything depends on the person. Each person has a different level of difficulty for learning different things. Some people find it easy to pick up playing the guitar while others require extensive lessons and years of practice to be able to play even the simplest things. In any case, to make the process easier for you I would check out the local music store and see what their rates are for guitar lessons. Not only because a professional instructs you, but because you learn more than just doing it yourself (there's nothing wrong with it because that's how I learned how to play) like how to read music and tabs etc..

However, if you do plan to do it yourself, start off on an acoustic guitar. I found this out the hard way. Electric guitar strings are easier on the fingers to play or softer than an acoustic. So if you learn how to play on an electric and decide to try playing acoustic, you'll rip your fingertips to bits. So play on an acoustic (it doesn't have to be a really expensive one either) and get your fingers callused so that you're better able to play (and yes, that process will be uncomfortable).
Also, try squeezing a tennis ball in your hands daily for a few minutes as an exercise. This will strengthen your hand and give you a little more power when it comes time to do some heavy fret work.

Good Luck and if you have any more questions feel free to funmail me. ",)

Is Guitar Hard To Learn?

It's not too hard. It just takes lots of practice. Most people give up their first few months of doing it because they're "not any good at it." But the truth is, it'll probably take a couple years to even get a good grasp of notes, music, chords, etc. But if you dedicate yourself to it, I know you'll love it.