Get started with the basics of playing guitar!
We’ll discuss basic chords, strumming patterns and then get into basic techniques like slides and hammer-ons!
After that we’ll go into some basic songs to get you started!
Beginner Guitar
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Guitar Basics
Here are the basic lessons for starting to learn guitar!
- How To Hold The Guitar
- How To Hold The Guitar Pick
- Learn To Read Guitar Tab
- Basic Right Hand Technique Beginner Guitar
- Basic Left Hand Technique Beginner Guitar
- Basic Guitar Chords Beginner Guitar
- Basic Strumming Patterns Beginner Guitar
- Slides, Hammer-Ons, And Pull-Offs Beginner Guitar
- Basic G Major Scale Beginner Guitar
- Basic C Major Scale Beginner Guitar
- Basic D Major Scale Beginner Guitar
- How To Use A Capo Beginner Guitar
- How To Attach A Guitar Strap
- Playing Melody With Strumming Beginner Guitar
First Songs!
Here are a few basic songs to get you started!
- She’ll Be Coming ‘Round The Mountain (Basic) Beginner Guitar
- Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Basic) Beginner Guitar
- Amazing Grace (Basic) Beginner Guitar
- Easy Bass Walks Beginner Guitar
- Wildwood Flower Beginner Guitar
- Worried Man Blues Beginner Guitar
- Cripple Creek Beginner Guitar
- Keep On The Sunny Side Beginner Guitar
- Saint Anne’s Reel Beginner Guitar
- The Importance Of Jamming
More Advanced Songs and Chords!
For this section we'll looking at playing a bluegrass style solo to the basic versions we learned in the previous section!
- She’ll Be Coming ‘Round The Mountain Beginner Guitar
- Will The Circle Be Unbroken Beginner Guitar
- Amazing Grace Beginner Guitar
- Turkey In The Straw Beginner Guitar
- Clinch Mountain Backstep Beginner Guitar
- Intro To Moveable Chords Beginner Guitar
- Dominant Seventh Chords
- Red Haired Boy Beginner Guitar
- Hard Times Come Again No More Beginner Guitar
- The Girl I Left Behind Beginner Guitar
- 10 Licks In The Key Of G Beginner Guitar
- 10 Licks In The Key Of C Beginner Guitar
- Arkansas Traveler Beginner Guitar
- Man Of Constant Sorrow Beginner Guitar
- Wabash Cannonball Beginner Guitar
- Nine Pound Hammer Beginner Guitar
- Silent Night Beginner Guitar
- House Of The Rising Sun Beginner Guitar
- Just A Closer Walk With Thee Beginner Guitar
- Temperance Reel Beginner Guitar
- Whiskey Before Breakfast Beginner Guitar
Starting to Fingerpick!
We'll look at some of the basics to fingerpicking in the country blues style!