Beginner Electric Guitar
14 lessons. ~30 minutes a day. Real rock by week three.
A structured path from picking up the guitar to playing your first riffs, power chords, and a 12-bar blues solo. Mix of short written lessons with chord diagrams, a metronome, the fretboard visualizer, and song play-alongs built right in.
Meet your electric guitar
The five parts you need to know, and what each one does to your sound.
Tuning up, every single time
Standard tuning (EADGBe) and why a guitar that's out of tune makes everything sound wrong.
How to hold the guitar (your future wrist will thank you)
Sitting and standing posture, fret-hand angle, picking-hand position.
The power chord, your gateway shape
E5, A5, G5: three shapes that play 90% of rock.
Your first riff: Smoke on the Water
Four shapes, four bars, immediate payoff. The riff every guitarist learns first.
Palm muting, the rock fundamental
How to thicken every power chord with one technique.
Open chords for electric: Em, Am, D
Power chords are not enough. Three open chords expand your vocabulary 10x.
Strumming patterns that don't suck
Down-down-up-up-down-up. The pattern under half of rock.
Your first full song play-along
Time to use what you've got. A 3-chord rock song you can play start to finish.
The minor pentatonic, your first scale
Five notes. Every rock solo starts here.
String bending, the sound of expression
Push a string sideways to raise the pitch. The technique behind every memorable solo.
Vibrato and sustain, making a note sing
A held note is not silent. Two techniques to make it cry.
Your first solo (12-bar blues template)
Combine everything. 12 bars, three chords, one scale, your phrasing.
Putting it all together (and what's next)
Recap, celebrate, and the four directions you can go from here.