Beginners Guitar Course: guitar lessons, learn the easy way

Let's see what we are going to do during the course

We learn how to tune a guitar, by ears and with various type of tuners

Let's see how to use both hands, left and right hand and let's start with a first exercise for the right hand

Let's start to do a first exercise with both hands, left hand goes on 0-1-2-1-0

We do the exercise but complete going down and back up, the fingers are: 1-2-1-2

The exercise with second and third fingers: 2-3-2-3

The exercise with third and fourth fingers: 3-4-3-4

In this lesson we are going to learn our first chord, the E minor and our first strum, a basic one

Now we do a new exercise with strumming to make it more complete

A new exercise for the left hand where we use fingers 1 and 3

An exercise a little bit more complicated because we need to use the little finger.

We learn a new chord and our first song by America: A horse with no name

We learn the last 2 fingers exercise: 1 and 4

We start to study the C major chord progression and so we learn the firsst chord the C major

The first exercise with 3 fingers

We learn the second chord of the C major progression, the Am and we do an exercise with change between C and Am

The second exercise of the 3 fingers exercises: 2 3 4

Let's see the third chord in the C major progression, the D minor and let's practice the change between Am and Dm

A new 3 fingers exercise, an important one

Let's see the fourth chord in the C major progression, the G7 and let's practice the change between Dm and G7

The last 3 fingers exercise with fingers 1 2 4

Let's do the complete C major chord progression

Let's play the song Diana by Paul Anka using the C major chord progression

We do the last exercise for left hand with the 4 fingers: 1 2 3 4

We learn our First Strumming (Down Down Up Up Down Up)

We learn two new chords that we will use later for a new song, G major and D major

I explain you how you'll have to read the tab of the chords in the lessons

We learn the first strumming with the right timing on the C major chord progression

We learn our third song, Stand By Me by Ben King also singed by John Lennon

We see how to read and use sites with tab and chords of the songs

In this lesson we learn a classic of folk music by Bob Dylan, Blowin' in the wind

Let's see how the single notes are written in the tabs

Let's learn our first scale, C Major

We learn the song "Don't worry be happy" by Bobby McFerrin

We see 2 new chords that we will need for a new song later, the 2 chords are A major and B minor, the Bm is our first chord with a bar

Let's see a second strumming for our songs

In this lesson we learn to play a beautiful song by U2 "Where the streets have no name"

We learn the scale in F Major

In this lesson we learn a classic of folk music, Knockin' on heaven's door by Bob Dylan, we play it with the second strum

We learn the beautiful song by Eric Clapton, Wonderful Tonight, we learn the rithmic guitar but also the solo part

Let's study another scale, the G Major scale

We learn 3 new chords that we will need later for a new song

In this lesson we learn a beautifull song by Eagles "Peacefull Easy Feeling"

In this lesson we learn the last of the main major chords, the F major

We learn the beautifull song by U2 :  I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

In this lesson we see how the "Capo" can help us improve our guitarist life

We start to study the finger picking (arpeggio) with a first exercise

We study a second exercise for the finger picking (arpeggio)

Let's do the third exercise with finger picking

We learn this beautiful song of the '60s House of the rising sun by The Animals

Let's learn a new arpeggio in 4/4 time

We learn a beautifull song by Beatles (Let it be) with the arpeggio in 4/4 that we just studied