Free Course Image Beginner Guitar Course - 26 Structured Lessons

Free online courseBeginner Guitar Course - 26 Structured Lessons

Duration of the online course: 9 hours and 47 minutes

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Play electric guitar with confidence in this free online course: tuning, chords, riffs, strumming, scales and lead skills, plus practice-ready lessons.

In this free course, learn about

  • Guitar terminology and electric-guitar controls (e.g., pickup selector function)
  • How to tune a guitar with a tuner and correct sharp/flat readings
  • Core techniques: posture, fretting/strumming, smooth chord changes, rhythm stability
  • Reading guitar TAB, including meaning of 0 (open string), and first chord-change drills
  • Strumming in time: note subdivisions (quavers/semis) and patterns for common songs
  • What chords are and how to add new open chords plus power chords (2- and 3-note shapes)
  • Music theory basics: scales as music’s language, note values, and 4/4 timing
  • Major/minor, pentatonic and blues scales; extending patterns and mapping notes on fretboard
  • Metronome practice to speed up scales while staying clean, even, and in time
  • Amp settings and tone basics for classic rock sounds
  • Lead technique: alternate picking rules across strings, bends to target pitch, and vibrato
  • Fingerpicking foundations and adding articulation like hammer-ons
  • Barre chords (E-shape): root note on the 6th string; chord families and movable shapes
  • Improvisation: making simple solos over a backing track using key-scale choices

Course Description

Pick up your electric guitar and start sounding like a guitarist sooner than you think. This free online beginner course guides you through 26 structured lessons designed to turn early confusion into clear, repeatable practice. You will build solid fundamentals from the very first session, learning the essential terminology, how your guitar works, and how to tune accurately so everything you play starts off in key.

From there, the course focuses on the skills that make music feel good: clean technique, steady timing, and confident chord changes. You will learn to read tablature, lock into a rhythm with practical strumming work, and develop the coordination to move between chords without losing the groove. Along the way, simple music theory is introduced in a way that supports your playing, helping you understand note values, scales, and how the fretboard is organized so you are not just memorizing shapes.

You will also start applying your new skills to recognizable song-style parts, which keeps practice motivating and gives you measurable progress. As you advance, you will work with scale patterns, the blues and pentatonic sounds, and the kinds of riffs and power chords that define electric guitar. Technique expands naturally into alternate picking, speed building with a metronome, bending to pitch, adding vibrato, and developing control in your right hand with ideas like ghost strumming and tighter rhythmic articulation.

To round things out, the course introduces barre chords, fingerpicking, and early improvisation so you can begin making music of your own. The final stretch ties everything together by training you to combine riffs, chords, and scales in a focused workout that improves fluency across the neck. If you want a beginner-friendly path that stays practical, musical, and structured, this course is a reliable way to build real electric guitar skills at home.

Course content

  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Guitar Terminology 09m
  • Exercise: On an electric guitar, what does the pickup selector switch do?
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - HOW TO TUNE YOUR GUITAR 06m
  • Exercise: When a tuner needle shows your guitar string is too high (to the right), what is the recommended way to correct it?
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 1 - Basic Techniques 24m
  • Exercise: What is the definition of a chord in guitar playing?
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 2 - Reading TAB / First Instrumental / First Chord Changes 19m
  • Exercise: In guitar tablature, what does the number 0 on a string line mean?
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 3 - Part 2 of Instrumental / Strumming Exercise 20m
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 4 - Three New Chords / Strumming In Time 18m
  • Exercise: What is the main technique goal when practicing chord changes so the rhythm stays solid?
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 5 - Introduction to Scales (Music's Language) 19m
  • Exercise: What is a musical scale described as in this lesson?
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Music Theory Lesson / Note Values 05m
  • Exercise: In 4/4 time, how many beats does a whole note last?
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 6 - How To Play 'Wild Thing' By The Troggs / Three New Scales 21m
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 7 - Speeding Up Scales / Learning About Chord Families 17m
  • Exercise: When practicing the C major and A natural minor scales with a metronome, what is the main goal at the benchmark tempo?
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 8 - Satisfaction by Rolling Stones / Understanding Amp Settings 21m
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 9 - Extended Scales / Blues Scale / Notes Along The Fretboard 23m
  • Exercise: Which scale is described as the easiest to navigate because it has fewer notes, and is extended across two octaves in the lesson?
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 10 - Live Forever by Oasis / Introducing The Power Chord 18m
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 11 - Strumming Pattern To Live Forever / Power Chord Exercise 22m
  • Exercise: When a slow song’s strumming is doubled again beyond quavers, what is the rhythm called?
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 12 - Lonely Boy (Black Keys) / Increase Picking Speed 15m
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 13 - Smells Like Teen Spirit Riff / Moveable Pentatonic Scale 19m
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 14 - Strumming Control On Power Chords / Moveable Blues Scale 22m
  • Exercise: When turning a two-finger power chord into a three-string power chord, where is the little (4th) finger placed?
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 15 - 12 Bar Boogie / I Saw Her Standing There By The Beatles 20m
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 16 - Alternate Picking / Swing Time / Beatles Song Continued 20m
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 17 - Importance Of Being Idle by Oasis / More On Picking Technique 24m
  • Exercise: When using alternate picking on scales, what is the key rule emphasized to avoid getting tripped up when changing strings (especially on the blues scale)?
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 18 - String Bending / Importance Of Being Idle With Strumming 24m
  • Exercise: When practicing string bending in the minor pentatonic, what is the main rule for the target pitch?
  • Video class: BEGINNERS COURSE - Lesson 19 - Solo for Importance of Being Idle / Adding Vibrato To Single Notes 15m
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 20 - Introduction to Fingerpicking 23m
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 21 - Introduction To Barre Chords / Increasing Picking Speed 20m
  • Exercise: In the E-shape barre chord taught in this lesson, which string determines the chord’s root note (and therefore the chord name)?
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 22 - How To Make Your Own Solos / Barre Chord Exercise 19m
  • Exercise: When beginning to improvise in this lesson, which key and scale(s) are used over the backing track?
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - LESSON 23 - Hammer Ons 19m
  • Exercise: What is the key rule given for deciding whether a note can be string-bent within the minor pentatonic scale?
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 24 - Two New Songs - Teenage Kicks / We're Going To Be Friends 27m
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 25 - Ghost Strumming / Chuck Berry Lick / Hey There Delilah 30m
  • Video class: BEGINNERS GUITAR COURSE - Lesson 26 - Masterclass on Lead 33m
  • Exercise: In the final lesson, what is the main goal of combining riffs, chords, and scales in one intense workout?

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