Beginner Guitar Course

Lesson one of the beginners guitar course with Gary Clinton introduces you to the anatomy of electric and acoustic guitars. Learn all the important parts of the guitar and what they mean. As well as this, you will also learn the string names and how to memorise them.

In this forth lesson of ten in Gary Clinton's beginners guitar lesson course Gary shows you how to change between chords. He highlights some excellent techniques that you'll love and which will help you master this difficult part of guitar playing in no time! Changing between major and minor chords is covered.

Lesson two of our beginners guitar course with Gary Clinton introduces you to Major chords. Gary will cover how to understand chord boxes as well as show you the chords you will learn that are used in hundreds of songs. Also, you will be shown how to play simple rhythms on these chords using a novel method.

The third lesson of ten in Gary Clinton's absolute beginners guitar lesson series explaining how to play minor chords. You'll be introduced to three of the most common minor chords that again are used in thousands upon thousands of songs. It's a short, but to the point lesson!

Learning to play guitar riffs is the reason many people take up guitar, because they are so synonimus with rock music and guitar playing. In this fifth lesson Gary explains how to play and create great sounding guitar riff from very simple to play ideas.

More than any other chord, the "power chord" is synonymous with rock music. Knowing how to play power chords all over the neck therefore is a must for all guitarists. Gary Clinton explains the composition and how to play power chords on various string sets all over the neck and how to practice them.

In this lesson you'll learn all you need to know to begin playing blues chord progressions on guitar! You will be shown the power chords that make it up as well as the form of the 12 bar blues. Crucially, Gary will take you through the counting of this 12 bar form on the guitar as well as talking about straight and swing rhythm.

In lesson eight of this ten lesson course Gary covers learning how to play melodies with a fingerstyle technique. Most guitarists use this technique no matter what style of guitar they play. You don't have to be a classical guitarists to get a lot out of finger style guitar playing. A must watch lesson.

Now that you have learned fingerstyle for melody on the guitar, now we look at applying fingerstyle technique to chords. This takes the previous material learned in episode 8 and expands upon it to help you play and arpeggiate chords which really sounds great for accompanying a singer or other instrument.

This is the final lesson of this beginners course for guitarists. Gary Clinton covers playing scales in open position and shows how to understand the musical alphabet as well as how simple scales are created. If you have gone through all ten lessons then well done and check out all our other guitar learning videos which go from easy to intermediate to advanced guitar player level in all genres.