The Beginners Guide To Playing The Guitar - New to guitar? Then here is a great place to start learning how to play guitar. From easy guitar chords, to easy guitar songs.

Tuning the guitar

Basic Guitar Tuning - In this beginner guitar lesson you will learn the most basic guitar tuning method, tune with a piano, electronic guitar tuners, tuning forks, etc...

Tuning the guitar with harmonics - This guitar lesson covers next step in learning to accurately tune your guitar.

Drop D Tuning - This guitar tuning is fast becoming the "standard" tuning of the modern rock era. This guitar lesson covers how to tune to Drop D.

Basics of Guitar Hand Position

Using a guitar pick - This beginner guitar lesson covers how to hold a pick, and the basics of right hand position on the guitar.

Left hand position on the guitar - This beginning guitar lesson helps you learn the basics of left hand position on the guitar.

*Guest Guitar Lessons Series - Dario Patrono*
How to hold a note - In this beginner guitar lesson Guitarist Dario Patrono from "Guitar Tips For Kids" teaches you how to properly hold a note on the guitar.

Learn the language of music on the guitar

Music is a language, and like any language it is important that you are able to speak it, read it, and write it. While there are many people in the world that can not read in the language that they speak, they are at a disadvantage in society. And yes Jimi Hendrix did not know how to read music, but do yourself a favor and learn the basics of reading music on the guitar.

Reading music on the guitar - standard notation, guitar tablature, and guitar rhythms

How to read Internet guitar tablature - This guitar lessons is a comprehensive reference to help you decode guitar tabs found on the Internet. Text tabs, or text tablature is how many beginning guitar players learn songs.

Basic guitar chords and strumming

This is definitely one of the first things to master as a beginning guitar player. These basic guitar lessons are listed in the order that you should learn them.

Guitar Chord Primer - How to read guitar chord charts and basic hand position while playing guitar chords.

Basic Guitar Chords - These are first seven basic guitar chords that you should learn. These easy guitar chords are a great place to start learning guitar.

Open position Dm and F Guitar Chords - The Dm and F chords are also 2 very common basic guitar chords.

Guitar Chord strumming 101 - This beginning guitar lesson is an introduction to basic strumming patterns for guitar.

4/4 accompaniment strum patterns for guitar - Learn these basic guitar strums with some familiar easy guitar song examples.

Power Chords for Guitar - Crank up the distortion and shatter the windows with these guitar chords. These are the staple of any heavy guitar playing.

Barre Chords - Barre chords (bar chords) are moveable guitar chords that can be played anywhere on the neck. In this guitar lesson you will learn 2 major, and 2 minor barre chord forms.

Learn the names of the notes on the guitar

Note Names on the guitar - In this guitar lesson you will learn the names of notes on the neck of the guitar.

Octave Shapes for guitar - Learn the notes on the neck of the guitar using octave shapes.

*Guest Guitar Lessons Series - Chris Morano*
Note Recognition - Guitarist Chris Morano teaches you how get to know the names of the notes on the neck of the guitar in this guitar lesson.