Lesson Guide/Curriculum

This page is designed to give you a guide to your journey through learning guitar. Feel free to start from the beginning or anywhere in the middle if you'd like to skip to a certain concept! Making sure you briefly know all of these concepts however will give you the tools to be the best guitarist you can be!

I. - learn this starter pack of chord shapes to give you what you need to get into playing your favorite songs! Includes:

A. - Basic chord shapes using only the first three strings perfect for beginners!

B. - Basic chord shapes using a combination of all strings!

II. - visit this link to learn more about common strum patterns as well as the technical names you might hear to refer to different timings of these strum patterns!

III. - visit the notes page to see an overview of all the notes across the fretboard!

IV. - Visit this page for single note patterns that are commonly used in lead guitar and melody playing!

V. - Visit this page for more shapes that allow you to form any chord anywhere on the fretboard!

Basic Open Chord Shapes (Simplified)