We have teamed up with Encore Guitars to bring you a fantastic beginners series for acoustic guitar. These lessons will take you through all the basics you need to get the best possible start to your guitar career!
Lesson One - Welcome!
Welcome to your beginners course for acoustic guitar! In this opening video we simply introduce you to the course and outline our goals.
Lesson Two - The Basics
In this lesson, Dan takes you through the basics of holding the guitar, how to hold a pick and even how to tune your guitar with a tuner.
Lesson Three - 5678 Exercise
In this lesson, Dan takes you through your first guitar exercise. Our aim is to get the left and right hand in sync and working together. We will also learn how to read tab, how to pick properly, and how to get those fingers stretched out!
Lesson Four - Your First Chords
It's time to tackle your first chord shapes. We pick 3 great chord shapes to get you started, using just two fingers to fret all 3 chords. These are great sounding chords that will really build your confidence on the neck.
Lesson Five - Changing Chords
We take the three chord shapes that you took the time to learn in the previous lesson and get them moving! This lesson is all about forcing those fingers to move quickly between the shapes, no matter how bad it sounds at first! Developing muscle memory is the name of the game.
Lesson 6 - Strumming
We will now learn how to strum! This is a particularly important skill to learn properly, as this will make all those chords you have learnt sound like an actual song!
Lesson 7 - What's Next?
Congratulations for getting this far! You have now learnt some of the most important concepts you will need to take your playing to the next level. In this lesson we'll talk about the next steps and the courses we recommend.