Learn to Play Guitar In 20 Days - Guitar Beginner Lessons

Begin your guitar journey with this beginner course, learning how to hold and tune a guitar and play your first notes and chords.

Identify the main parts of the guitar, including headstock, tuning pegs, strings, nut, fretboard, frets, neck, and body. Contrast acoustic guitars' sound hole and pickguard with electric guitars' pickups.

Learn the proper right-handed hold for a guitar, sit comfortably with the guitar on your right leg, and position the left hand with thumb on the back to fret smoothly.

Learn about notes as named pitches in western music, the A–G letter cycle, octaves, and how sharps and flats alter pitch by one fret.

Learn to tune your guitar to standard notes using headstock tuners, chromatic tuners, or free apps, or tune by ear by matching pitches across strings.

Learn to read guitar tablature, identify the six-string layout from low e to high e, and interpret frets by numbers to play open and fretted notes.

Learn the first position exercise by using frets 1-4 across all strings, with a steady, arched left hand and alternating right-hand strokes to build foundational guitar technique.

Learn first position guitar notes, identifying open strings and frets one and three, practice the C major scale, and build toward open chords.

Learn to play open chords with a smooth right-hand sweep and precise left-hand finger placement, starting with the A major chord and developing strumming from the elbow.

Learn open chords in the key of A major, A, D, and E, plus a simple 1-4-5 progression, with correct finger placements and strumming for clear ringing notes.

Learn the chords in the key of D major, including D major and G major, with flexible fingerings to make all six notes ring, and practice smooth chord transitions.

Master chords in G major, including G major, C major, D major, and the first minor E minor, with basic fingering and practice progressions through the key.

Master the 1, 4, 5, and 6 chords in the key of c major, including c major, f major, g major, and the minor (vi) chord.

Learn seven chords in the key of A major, including A7, D7, and E major seventh variations, and practice making the seventh notes ring clearly on open chords.

Master strumming chords in four four time with a coordinated right-hand sweep and elbow pivot, using down and up strokes on A, D, and E major chords.

Learn how to strum chords in six eight time, counting six beats per pattern with down and up strums, while staying controlled and avoiding tension for a smooth rhythm.

Learn to strum in four-four time with 16th-note subdivisions and consistent downstrokes. Emphasize beats 2 and 4, stay relaxed in tempo, then move to single-note patterns with G major scale.

Learn the G major scale with a moveable two-octave pattern, practiced in second position, using right-hand down-up picking and left-hand fingering to move the pattern freely along the neck.

Learn the a blues scale as a movable pattern starting in the fifth position, with fingering up the low E and A strings, practiced with steady up-and-down right-hand picking.

Learn to play e-string barre chords with a root on the low e string, barring all six strings, and form major and minor shapes up the neck for movable harmony.

master string barre chords across the neck by using fifth-string roots and two handy shapes, including major and minor barre chords, with practical fingerings and smooth transitions.