Guitar Essentials

Guitar Parts, Fingers, Frets and Strings

Learn the name to the parts of a typical 6 string acoustic guitar as well as the numbering conventions used for the fingers, frets and strin...

Holding the Guitar - Body Position

It’s important to be comfortable when playing guitar. This lesson looks at the typical body positions when holding the six string acoustic g...

Holding the Guitar - Hand Positions

This lesson looks at the right and left hand positions when holding the guitar.

Guitar Exercise - Thumb Picking

This finger picking exercise for the right hand thumb also reinforces the pitches of the strings and introduces the 12 Bar Blues progression...

Guitar Exercise - Left Hand Fingering

Get the left hand fingers moving.

Tuning The Guitar

Tuning the guitar is easy but absolutely necessary. In this lesson, I’ll show you a number of different ways to get it in tune.

The Chromatic Scale - Learning the Names of the Notes

Standard music is made up of 12 repeatable tones which comprise what’s known as the chromatic scale. Learn the names of these notes and wher...

This video series is all about getting familiar with the acoustic guitar.

Learn the names of the parts of the guitar and the notes of the strings, how to be comfortable holding the guitar, how to position your hands, how to tune the guitar, plus exercises to get started and reinforce what you’ve learned.

There is a lesson covering naming the notes of the Chromatic Scale in the first four frets and a set of lessons on guitar maintenance that includes re-stringing your guitar.