Guitar for Beginners

About This Course

This course is approximately 40% complete as of May 5, 2025… but I’m happy to give you a sneak peek at things in the meantime! I’ll be adding new lessons over the coming weeks.

Beginning Your Guitar Journey

Thinking about getting started with guitar? These lessons will help you out as you prepare to take your first steps learning to play guitar.

Advice for New Guitar Players

Choosing a Guitar

Other Gear You'll Need

Guitar Anatomy for Beginners

Are You Ever Too Old to Learn Guitar?

Learning Without an In-Person Teacher?

How Sound, Pitch, and "Notes" Work

How to Tune Your Guitar

Additional Lessons Coming Very Soon!

This course is brand new, and I’m still adding various bits and pieces that are missing. Stay tuned for new additions, which you can expect very soon! Folks have been asking about this course for years, so believe me when I say I’m motivated to get it completed very soon.

Specific things I plan on adding:

• Additional lessons in the First Steps section! Fretting individual notes, an introduction to chords, an explanation of strumming & rhythm, how to use a pick, and plenty more topics. I plan to cap things off by teaching a few songs where we’ll put all this together.
• A print-friendly eBook (PDF) to give you print-friendly guide to the information covered in all these lessons. I reference this in a few of the videos… fear not, it’s on the way!
• Readable text and images on each lesson page — which will serve as an additional way to take in the information in each video.
• Finally, I’ll point folks to suggested next steps based on their desired goal (sing and strum, lead guitar & fun riffs, going deeper with music theory, etc).

Have any specific requests that you think would make for good additions to this beginner course? Send me an email and let me know what you’re interested in learning! Feedback, comments, or questions regarding the videos already here are also welcome.