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Starter Guitar Course
Rating: 4.3 out of 5(15 ratings)
1,980 students

Starter Guitar Course

Full beginner guitar course. Chords, strumming, TAB, soloing, & basic theory. Acoustic & electric. All levels.
Created byDan Dresnok
Last updated 9/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • How to read TAB.
  • Name every note on every fret.
  • Play all the open chords.
  • Play barre chords.
  • Play solos.
  • Use soloing tricks.
  • Jam along with backing tracks.
  • Strum using different patterns.
  • Basic guitar theory.

Course content

2 sections • 20 lectures • 3h 58m total length

  • Welcome to the Course12:03
  • Learn the Guitar Strings4:28

    We're going to learn the names of the guitar strings and a few clever ways to memorize them.

  • How to Read Guitar Tab5:08

    We're going to learn how to read tab (TAB or tablature) - don't worry, many people are also confused by this! It's easy - you'll know how to do it in a few minutes.

  • Tuning Your Guitar10:02

    We'll learn the traditional way of tuning the guitar by ear.

  • The Best Guitar Warm-up9:39

    This is the very best guitar warm-up that guitarists have been using for ages.

  • Learn the Open Guitar Chords13:00

    Learn the basic open guitar chords and get some tips on how to properly finger them.

  • Find Every Note on the Guitar15:11

    Learn how to find all the notes on the guitar. This is called learning the chromatic scale and is your first important piece of music theory.

  • Learn the Major Scale10:29

    We'll learn the most popular scale in the world and how to play it in any key that we want!

  • One Scale Fits All15:38

    We'll learn an amazing soloing trick that we can use over most songs in both major & minor keys - using just one simple scale shape!

  • How to Use Backing Tracks14:42

    We'll learn how to use backing tracks to practice soloing with our scales.

  • Backing Track in G Major10:25

    It's time for you to practice your soloing! Here, we'll jam over a backing track in the key of G major. The pentatonic minor scale in the key of E will be perfect on the 12th fret (or as open.) You may see a lot of new shapes on the screen as you jam along with this. Have fun!

  • Backing Track in A Dorian10:22

    It's time for you to practice your soloing even more! We'll jam over a backing track in the key of A Dorian, which is a scale that you haven't learned yet (it's Dorian mode #2), but the pentatonic minor scale in the key of A will be perfect! Also, you'll see a lot of new shapes on the screen as you jam along with this. Have fun!

  • Barre Chords17:04

    In this video, we'll learn the amazing skill of how to find & create closed-position chords that can be moved to any key we want. We'll also learn to do this in a few different shapes (to give us the most chord options.)

  • Rhythm & Strumming17:56

    As we wind down our course, we'll take a comprehensive look at counting rhythms and applying that to our chord strumming. This will give you unlimited rhythm flexibility.

  • Going Forward5:48

    You made it to the end! Congratulations and well done! In this video, we'll discuss how to continue forward on your guitar playing journey. Thanks for going through this course with me!

Requirements

  • This course is for everyone - especially complete beginners.
  • You only need a guitar - any kind of guitar with six strings.

Description

Welcome to Starter Guitar Course! This is a complete beginner guitar course that goes in-depth to turn you into a confident guitar player. We'll start at the very beginning. By the end of this course, you'll be reading tablature, playing chords all over the fretboard, naming notes on every fret, soloing, playing songs, and using different strum different patterns for each song.

These lessons go in order and build on each other.

If you want to be a guitarist, you'll need a basic ability to play chords. When you play chords, you'll need a few different strum patterns to make the chords sound unique. This means you'll be playing a song or a chord progression. Finally, you'll want to do some soloing over the song or chords. These are all things that you'll learn to do in this course.

Many of these lesson videos include PDF attachments. These are the text guitar lessons to use while watching the videos. You can download, save, & print these. Be sure to get all the PDFs.

These lessons will be easy for you to learn. You'll soon be playing your guitar with confidence and have a clear understanding of how to play & what to practice.

I'm glad you're here - let's begin.

Who this course is for:

  • Every beginner guitarist should take this course.
  • Intermediate guitarists who skipped some basics.
  • Guitarists in need of a refresher course.
  • Guitar players who never properly learned the basics.

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