Guitar Lessons - Learn to Play Guitar Online

This section contains basic Guitar Lessons to help you get started or improve your skills as a guitarist.

Guitar Chord Lessons

Learn the basic chord shapes for the guitar. These chords will help when you begin playing songs after a little practice.

Learn how to play power chords, barre chords and the basic open chord forms with sound clips.

Guitar Chord Charts: C | D | E | F | G | A | B

How to Play Guitar Chords

Guitar Scale Lessons

Learn guitar scales including Major, Minor Pentatonic and Major Pentatonic Scales.

Scales will help you learn how chords are formed from the notes of the scale. After learning how to play scales you can also begin creating melodies from the notes of the scales. Scales are also a good warm up exercise and help improve finger dexterity.

How to Play Guitar Scales

Arpeggios

Arpeggios are notes from a chord played one note at a time, usually up or down in order. Unlike scales that contain some extra notes, arpeggios use only the notes found in a single chord. Arpeggios can be used in solos or riffs and create a more harmonized sound when played with their corresponding chord.

C major arpeggio for guitar

Guitar Arpeggios

The CAGED method

The CAGED method is very helpful in learning the notes of the fretboard. CAGED stands for the names of the chords used in the method.

CAGED method for guitar

Guitar Lessons: The CAGED Method

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How to tune a guitar. Learn to tune your guitar to standard tuning (EADGBe).

How to read Guitar Tabs. Guitar tabs help to learn guitar without reading music.

Alternate Guitar Tunings. Open tunings and other alternate tunings for guitar.


Guitar Chords. Open chords, power chords, barre chords, seventh chords, and triads for guitar.


Guitar Scales. Major, minor, Pentatonic, and Scale Modes for guitar.