Courses

Each course is a short series of exercises your tutor walks you through. Start with Orientation, every other course assumes you've finished it. Then pick a project to make, or learn the fundamentals one building block at a time. Projects never require a fundamentals course.

  1. Start hereOrientationMeet your tutor: tell it who you are as a player, what gear you have, and what music you're after, then set up a practice routine that will carry you through every course that follows.2 exercises

Projects

Learn a song you love or write your own riff, and pick up the building blocks along the way.

  1. Learn a songPick a real song you love and get it under your fingers, start to finish.4 exercises
  2. Write a riffCompose a short riff of your own from the pentatonic scale and power chords, and record it.4 exercises

Fundamentals

One building block at a time: the neck, chords, scales, and how the pieces fit together.

  1. Notes on the neckLearn the name of every note on the fretboard — the first building block that makes every chord, scale, and song you'll ever learn make sense.5 exercises
  2. DexterityWarmups and finger-independence drills that build strength, accuracy, and coordination — the physical foundation that makes everything else on the guitar feel easy.4 exercises
  3. CAGED chordsThe five open chord shapes — C, A, G, E, D — and how they tile the whole neck as major, minor, and dominant chords. For students who can hold the guitar and strum.5 exercises
  4. The major scaleThe pattern behind melodies and keys: build the major scale from whole and half steps, play it in one position, then move it anywhere on the neck.5 exercises
  5. The pentatonic scaleThe five-note scale behind most riffs and solos, learned as five boxes that tile the neck — plus the trick of its two identities, major and minor.4 exercises
  6. ArpeggiosChords played one note at a time — the bridge between chord shapes and melodies, ending with the simplest trick that makes a solo sound intentional.4 exercises