The Beginners Guide To Playing The Guitar - New to guitar? Then here is a great place to start your guitar playing journey.

Tuning the guitar

Basic Tuning - Learn the most basic tuning method, tune with a piano, electronic tuners, tuning forks, etc...

Tuning with harmonics - The next step in learning to accurately tune your guitar.

Drop D Tuning - This tuning is fast becoming the "standard" tuning of the modern rock era.

Basics of Hand Position

Using a pick - How to hold a pick, and the basics of right hand position.

Left hand position - Learn the basics left hand position on the guitar.

*Guest Guitar Teacher Series - Dario Patrono*
How to hold a note - In this lesson GuitaristDario Patrono from "Guitar Tips For Kids" teaches you how to properly hold a note on the guitar.

Learn the Language

Music is a language, and like any language it is important that you are able to speak it, read it, and write it. While there are many people in the world that can not read in the language that they speak, they are at a disadvantage in society. And yes Jimi Hendrix did not know how to read music, but do yourself a favor and learn the basics.

Reading music on the guitar - standard notation, tablature, and rhythms

How to read Internet tablature - a comprehensive reference to help you decode tabs found on the Internet.

Basic guitar chords and strumming

This is definitely one of the first things to master as a guitar player. The lessons are listed in the order that you should learn them.

Chord Primer - How to read guitar chord charts and basic hand position while playing chords.

Beginning 7 - These are the first seven basic guitar chords that you should learn.

Open position Dm and F - What about F and Dm... aren't they basic guitar chords? But of course, here they are.

Chord strumming 101 - An introduction to basic strumming patterns for guitar.

4/4 accompaniment strum patterns - Learn these basic guitar strums with some familiar song examples.

Power Chords - Crank up the distortion and shatter the windows. These are the staple of any heavy guitar playing.

Basic major and minor barre chords - Play any major or minor chord in 2 places on the neck of the guitar with these chord forms.

Learn the names of the notes on the guitar

Note Names - Learn the names of notes on the neck of the guitar.

Octave Shapes - Learn the notes on the neck of the guitar using octave shapes.

*Guest Guitar Teacher Series - Chris Morano*
Note Recognition - Guitarist Chris Morano teaches you how get to know the names of the notes on the neck of the guitar.