Guitar Chords & Strumming for Absolute Beginners

26 lessons, plus the course trailer. About 3 hours of lessons.

Start from zero: your first chords, smooth changes and strumming patterns, with play-along practice. You’ll learn to play each chord with good technique, so it rings clearly and changes smoothly — from one-finger chords to full strumming patterns, including majors, minors, 7ths, minor 7ths, major 7ths and suspended chords.

What you’ll learn

• Module 1: simple one-finger chords (Lessons 1–5)
• Module 2: basic CAGED chords (Lessons 6–8)
• Module 3: 7th chords (Lessons 9–12)
• Module 4: minor and minor 7th chords (Lessons 13–15)
• Module 5: major 7th chords (Lessons 16–19)
• Module 6: suspended (sus) chords (Lessons 20–22)
• Module 7: strumming patterns (Lessons 23–24)
• Modules 8–9: the “Hanging Out” exercise and the “Just the Chords” play-along (Lessons 25–26)

This course is also available as a free YouTube series (a new lesson twice a week). Membership gives you all 26 lessons now, in order, with no ads.

Guitar Fretboard Secrets

59 video lessons. About 3 hours 6 minutes.

Learn the notes on the fretboard and how they connect, so you can find any note fast. The course builds from a simple way to map the neck, through CAGED chords and scales in any key, then inversions, voice leading and the modes.

Guitar Bar Chords

44 video lessons. About 1 hour 42 minutes.

Build clean bar chords step by step, then use them all over the neck. You’ll start with barring exercises, play a bar-chord ballad, and learn the CAGED bar-chord shapes, including minor and 7th types.

Read Music for Guitar – Beginners

73 video lessons. About 2 hours 21 minutes.

Learn to read standard notation for guitar one string at a time, with play-along reading examples that add strings as you go, then practice well-known pieces.

Classical Guitar Solos

50 video lessons. About 2 hours 56 minutes.

Learn ten easy classical guitar solos. The course starts with basic classical technique — how to hold the guitar, tirando and apoyando, block chords, and reading tablature and standard notation — then works through ten solos by Fernando Sor, Joseph Küffner, Dionisio Aguado, Matteo Carcassi and Ferdinando Carulli. Each solo has a playthrough, a tutorial, and slow versions with and without TAB.