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Learn guitar online for free with clear, practical guides from Gaurav: beginner chords, tuning, tabs, strumming, fretboard notes, scales, music theory and improvising. When you want feedback on your playing, book a live lesson.
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Guitar Chords for Beginners
The eight open chords that unlock thousands of songs, with charts and fingering.
How to Read Guitar Tabs
The six lines, the numbers, chords and every common tab symbol.
How to Tune a Guitar
Standard tuning with a tuner or by ear, plus drop D and half step down.
Guitar Strumming Patterns
Four essential strumming patterns with counts, and the right pick grip.
Fretboard and scales
Guitar Fretboard Notes
Every note from the open strings to the 12th fret, plus the string names.
Pentatonic Scale Guitar
All five minor pentatonic boxes, the major pentatonic and the blues scale.
Guitar Scales for Beginners
The major scale formula and two patterns, plus which scales to learn first.
Theory
Music Theory for Guitar
Intervals, chord construction, keys, chord tones and CAGED, without jargon.
Circle of Fifths
All 12 keys on one chart, and how to use it to find chords.
Guitar Chord Progressions
The progressions behind thousands of songs, in the keys guitarists use.
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How to Improvise on Guitar
Ear training, chord tones and phrasing: the Hear, Map, Play method.
Free printable PDFs
Chord charts, blank tab, the circle of fifths, scales and a 30-day practice plan, ready to print.
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