Guitar - Absolute Basics

Explore guitar absolute basics for beginners with no experience, and start playing right away while you build confidence through small, incremental steps.

Explore common beginner questions about starting guitar, including age, cost, acoustic versus electric, and lessons. Learn the three main parts—head, neck, and body—through a listen-first course with on-screen visuals.

Meet Frank Shefali, a guitarist who started in 1989 at 14 and explains how original and cover music shape his approach to music theory and learning songs.

Answering ten common questions about starting guitar, this lecture covers age suitability, whether to buy, acoustic vs electric, lessons, and reading music.

Identify the guitar’s three main parts—the head, neck, and body—and explore how a hollow Fender stratocoustic can be amplified as an electric guitar.

Explore the headstock, tuning keys, and nut that guide string tuning, note the neck connection, locking nuts, and how truss rods and string paths reach the bridge.

Explore how the guitar body affects sound quality across hollow acoustics, semi acoustics, and electric variants, and note key parts like pickups, nylon strings, and the five-way switch.

Identify your handedness, learn the proper hold and belt-height, and practice left-right hand patterns with a metronome to build timing; future lessons cover tuning, notes, intervals, chords, and scales.

Celebrate completing guitar absolute basics by identifying what a guitar consists of; choose a guitar and start getting comfortable with holding it to continue learning.