Guitar Beginners

Here I show you the most demanding obstacle on your way from a total guitar beginner to a solid intermediate guitar player. It's the barre chord. I show you all tricks I know to overcome this obstacle in a reasonable timeframe and it has to be fun too. Here you can download the files associated to this backing track _

This lesson is part of the Guitar Beginners Series and is one of the most important lessons of all. Here you start working on your picking technique and you start to figure out which technique might be the right one for you. If you missed lesson 3 where you learn the chords properly please first check out that lesson : Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Here you learn the very first steps to play some melody or solo on the guitar by learning the basic positions of the minor and the major pentatonic and by starting to use them together with a backing track. There are 2 main tasks : 1 - move your fingers on the fretboard and learn a first pattern. 2 - learn the basics of rhythm notation and tabs. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Here you can start with the basic chords on guitar. I show you the main basic chords and 2 simple songs were you can already start to make music. One of them is " Hey Joe " by Jimi Hendrix. The single note line of " Hey Joe " is also a great exercise to start moving the fingers on the fretboard with some fun. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

This is lesson 2 of the Guitar Beginners series. If you missed lesson no. 1 please check that one out first. In this lesson I talk about the standard blues form, counting the bars, keeping the form and the first steps for a cool solo guitar. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial : if you missed lesson no. 1 please go here :

This is the very first lesson you would get if you would step into my studio and learn guitar from the very first step. We are learning to connect with music, to count, to feel the rhythm and trying to play very simple things with this method. This is the first lesson of a series. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :