Acoustic Guitar Basics: A Gentle Introduction to Barre Chords
In this lesson you’ll learn a handful of essential barre chord shapes and use them to play the swing favorite “After You’ve Gone.”
Guitar Basics: 3 Simple Tips to Get Better at Strumming
Learn to get comfortable holding a pick, then try some common strums of increasing complexity
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An Easy Introduction to Playing Thumb-Driven Monotonic Bass Lines on Guitar
In this guitar lesson, learn to play a monotonic bass line, then apply it separately to three chords in the basic 12-bar blues progression.
Ease into Alternate Tuning with This Open D Minor Blues Guitar Lesson
In this guitar lesson, get a taste of open tunings by lowering your strings to open D minor, then playing a handful of chord shapes and applying them to a bluesy etude.
Guitar Basics: How to Build Scales on Acoustic Guitar, Part I (Major Scales)
In this acoustic guitar lesson, Gretchen Menn breaks down the basics of scale formation and shows you how to apply that knowledge to the fretboard.
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Video Lesson: Learning the Notes on the Acoustic Guitar Fretboard and the Staff
Guitarist Gretchen Menn offers beginner's tips on how to familiarize yourself with the guitar fretboard and learn the fundamentals of music theory.
Guitar Basics: How to Build Chords and Use Them in Progression
In this guitar lesson we study the fundamentals of diatonic harmony to understand the theory, then apply it to the fretboard to build chords and use them in progression.
Video Lesson: Chord-Building Basics
The guitar is a wonderfully flexible instrument that allows for full, rich harmonies with easy fingerings. Yet so many guitarists stop there.
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Video Lesson: How to Build Scales on Acoustic Guitar, Part 2 of 2 (Minor Scales)
If you’re going to spend any time learning scales, why not really learn them? Why not own them? In the long run it'll be a valuable use of your time.