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Beginner Guitar Path

With Sean Conklin, Richard Lundmark, Rick Graham and 7 more
BeginnerRockTechnique 51 steps284 lessons10h 57m

New to guitar or coming back after a long break? Start here. Learn the basics every player needs, your first techniques and chords, simple theory, then put it all together with easy songs.

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Part 1First Things to Know

  1. 1 Tutorial · 4 lessons · 11m Introduction To Guitar Chris Feener Hey everyone! Welcome to InfiniteGuitar.com. This tutorial will be the first of many in an in-depth introduction to the guitar. Whether your forte is blues, rock, metal or pop, we'll examine every element of...
  2. 2 Lesson · 4m Guitar Anatomy 101 - Learning the Parts of a Guitar Sean Conklin Every guitarist needs to know the anatomy of the guitar so they can properly reference the various parts. Be sure to study the video and image below to memorize everything. Also, it's worth noting that some...
  3. 3 Lesson · 2m Learning the Notes of the Strings Sean Conklin Every guitarist needs to know the notes and numbers of the guitar strings. If you're a beginning guitarist, this is one of the very first things you'll want to tackle. As I mention in the video, we instructors...
  4. 4 Tutorial · 3 lessons · 9m Tuning Your Guitar Sean Conklin As you can imagine, tuning is extremely important with the guitar and any other instrument. Every guitarist needs to know how to do it, and how to do it effectively and quickly. There are different ways you...
  5. 5 Lesson · 4m What Is a Pick and How Do I Use It? Sean Conklin Other than our fingers, picks are the main tool that guitarists use to play the guitar strings. There are a lot of different kinds of picks, and you should experiment with different picks to find out what kind...
  6. 6 Tutorial · 3 lessons · 8m Health and Safety for Guitarists Sean Conklin In addition to this lesson, be sure to check out an article I wrote on Guitarist Tendonitis. Stretching and warming up is critical for any guitarist. Playing guitar can be very strenuous on your fingers...
  7. 7 Tutorial · 5 lessons · 23m Stretching & Warm-Up Steve Hubbard Hey guys! As mentioned, this tutorial is a bit different than what you may expect to see from me! Please, please, please! Take the time to go through this series of videos, and strongly consider some of the...

Part 2Your First Techniques

  1. 8 Tutorial · 2 lessons · 5m Picking for Beginners Sean Conklin In this lesson, we're going to explore the basic fundamentals of standard picking. As I mention in the video, standard picking is the most basic form of guitar picking. So if you're just starting out on the...
  2. 9 Tutorial · 4 lessons · 9m Alternate Picking 101 Chris Feener Hey guys! In this lesson I really wanted to focus on the mechanics of alternate picking; how I've personally come to develop my own technique, and what you guys can do to further yours.To start; right hand...
  3. 10 Tutorial · 3 lessons · 9m Beginner's 15 Minute Picking Workout Steve Hubbard The main obective for this lesson is to teach a workout plan, similar to that which a bodybuilder would use for a weight lifting day at the gym. Basically, we will be working on 5 exercises, 3 of which are...
  4. 11 Tutorial · 3 lessons · 5m Strumming Basics for Beginners Sean Conklin Welcome everyone! This tutorial is designed to lay out the very basics of guitar strumming. If you're just starting out on guitar, then these lessons are for you! First, be sure to review the important posture...
  5. 12 Tutorial · 5 lessons · 15m Next-Level Strumming Chris Feener Next-Level StrummingIntroduction This months lesson will focus solely on strumming. For those of you who have surpassed the beginning stages of basic quarter and 8th beat strumming phrases, this lesson is...
  6. 13 Lesson from Legato for Beginners · 2m Legato for Beginners - Hammer Ons Sean Conklin The first legato technique we're going to look at are hammer ons. The name "hammer ons" is somewhat self-explanatory. This technique is going to involve our fingers hammering on the fretboard in order to...
  7. 14 Lesson from Legato for Beginners · 2m Legato for Beginners - Pull Offs Sean Conklin Now, let's focus on pull offs. With pull offs, our fingers are going to pull off the strings to produce notes. In order to play a pull off, you'll first pick a note that one of your fret-hand fingers is...
  8. 15 Lesson from Legato for Beginners · 2m Legato for Beginners - Slides Sean Conklin Lastly, let's have a look at slides. Slides are pretty much the epitome of legato. The reason for that is slides are the absolute smoothest possible transition you can have from one note to another. In order...
  9. 16 Tutorial · 4 lessons · 6m Getting Started With Lead Fills Chris Feener This tutorial is for you acoustic strummers who are looking to expand on some lead abilities for the purpose of complimenting your progressions. I frequently am asked to address this topic so I figured I'd...
  10. 17 Tutorial · 4 lessons · 17m Bending Boot Camp Richard Lundmark Attention recruit! Welcome to the Bending Boot Camp, where I will break you down, and build you up with the necessary skills to make a bending SEAL out of you! Jokes aside, this tutorial is aimed not throwing...
  11. 18 Tutorial · 2 lessons · 6m Introduction to Fingerpicking Rick Graham Welcome to an Introduction to Fingerstyle! Fingerstyle is a technique that is beneficial to us in many ways. With this technique we are able to achieve a much more pianistic way of playing; that is, the...
  12. 19 Tutorial · 21 lessons · 17m Finger Tapping - From Basic to Craziness! Sean Conklin Welcome to the Finger Tapping Tutorial! This is a fairly large tutorial that spans from beginning to advanced levels. So no matter what skill level you're at, I'd encourage you to go through the whole thing...
  13. 20 Tutorial · 7 lessons · 13m String Bending Rick Graham Hey there and welcome to this tutorial on String Bending technique! I personally feel that this particular technique is often neglected by guitarists even though it is something which can help your...
  14. 21 Tutorial · 4 lessons · 14m Vibrato Technique Rick Graham Hi everybody and welcome to this tutorial on vibrato. This tutorial is the next step on from the previous string bending tutorial. I like to think of vibrato technique as essentially a different form of string...
  15. 22 Tutorial · 9 lessons · 47m Vibrato 101: How to "Wiggle" the Strings Richard Lundmark Welcome to this tutorial on Vibrato! In this video I've put emphasis on the "show & tell" principle rather than tons of text for you to read, and enforced my video examples with the graphs below. So I won't be...
  16. 23 Tutorial · 5 lessons · 16m Basics of Legato Technique Rick Graham Hi and welcome to this new tutorial on the subject of Legato. I'm going to break this subject up into two tutorials which will start with the basic essentials of this technique and progress to the more...
  17. 24 Tutorial · 9 lessons · 37m Beginning Slide Guitar Richard Lundmark Welcome to this introduction to slide guitar playing! First of all, this will not be a song tutorial, where you learn to play riffs or solos. Rather, this is a technical overview and reference guide to help...
  18. 25 Lesson · 2m Palm Muting Mike Edwin Palm muting is a common device used in all styles of music. Those chugging distorted metal riffs that I'm sure you have all heard at one stage, sound the way they do partly because of the palm muting...

Part 3Let's Learn Chords

  1. 26 Tutorial · 3 lessons · 9m What are Chords? - The Harmonized Major Scale Mike Edwin Chords! A chord is a series of notes played together. There are hundreds even thousands of chords available to play on the guitar. Once you begin to understand the essentials of building chords, and...
  2. 27 Tutorial · 4 lessons · 7m Learning Simple Chord Progressions Rick Graham Hey all and thanks for joining me! In this tutorial we will be taking a look at how to play some simple chord progressions with two example progressions to get our teeth into. To begin with I guess we need to...
  3. 28 Lesson · 2m Rock Chords - The Power Chord Mike Edwin Welcome Aboard! Right now we will take a look at 'Power Chords' At the beginning of this video you will see a short demonstration of Power Chords in action. More often than not you will hear these chords used...
  4. 29 Lesson · 4m Barre Chords Rick Graham Barre chords, what exactly are they? Barre chords are chords which enable us to take all of the open chords that we have learned, open chords being the basic chords which incorporate the use of open strings...
  5. 30 Tutorial · 3 lessons · 7m Bar Chords Chris Feener Hey guitar enthusiasts! In this tutorial, we're tackling bar chords. We'll examine the best approach to forming a clean-sounding bar chord, and the steps for constructing a ton of cool chords (covering all...
  6. 31 Tutorial · 10 lessons · 12m Intervals and Building Chords Mike Edwin Scale Degrees. The term 'Degree' is used to identify a particular note in a scale. The point of using this terminology is that it can make life a whole lot easier when trying to identify chords and intervals...
  7. 32 Tutorial · 7 lessons · 24m Minor Blues Tom Quayle Hi everyone! Welcome to this tutorial on the minor blues. The minor blues is much like our beloved standard blues in many ways. It contains 3 primary chords, is generally 12 bars long and doesn't follow our...
  8. 33 Tutorial · 7 lessons · 22m Shell Voicings Tom Quayle Hi there everyone and welcome to this tutorial on Shell Voicings. Shell voicings are chords which contain the minimum number of voices or notes required to outline a particular harmonic sound. In other words...

Part 4Scales and Exercises

  1. 34 Tutorial · 7 lessons · 8m Pentatonic Scales Sean Conklin Welcome to the Pentatonic Scale Tutorial! The pentatonic scale is an extremely important scale and should be learned and respected by every guitarist. The pentatonic is a foundational scale, as many other...
  2. 35 Tutorial · 2 lessons · 5m Fret-hand Coordination Sean Conklin In this tutorial, we're going to practice some patterns that utilize all 4 of the fret-hand fingers. Just as with any other instrument, playing guitar requires solid coordination. If you think about it, if you...
  3. 36 Tutorial · 5 lessons · 16m Flexibility Boot Camp Richard Lundmark Welcome to this tutorial on Flexibility Training guys! As our hands are our tools of the trade as guitar players, keeping them in shape, keeping them strong and flexible should be a priority for us. This...

Part 5Basic Music Theory

  1. 37 Tutorial · 14 lessons · 19m Reading Music For Guitar Robert Mussatti The hardest thing for a guitar player to do is to read standard notation. For a lot of guitar players, this is something they would rather not do because it's "too hard." But if you wish to grow from just a...
  2. 38 Tutorial · 3 lessons · 7m Setting Yourself Apart - Sight Reading Jody Mac Hey Guys!  This tutorial is an introduction to sight reading. It assumes that you are already familiar with standard notation on the treble clef. If you aren't ready to dive into it yet, be sure to check out...
  3. 39 Tutorial · 39 lessons · 28m Learning Time Signatures Sean Conklin Hello and welcome! In this tutorial we're going to take a very in-depth look at time signatures. This is a rather large tutorial, but don't let that overwhelm you. I'd encourage you to go through it slowly so...

Part 6Song Tutorials and Style Application

  1. 40 Tutorial · 4 lessons · 6m Blues Basics Chris Feener Welcome new guitarists! In this tutorial, I want to focus on getting your first blues progression under your fingers. We'll start by examining three chords (E5, A5 and B5). "5" chords are commonly referred to...
  2. 41 Tutorial · 5 lessons · 5m Trial and Error Sean Conklin Hey everyone! In this tutorial we'll be learning a piece called "Trial and Error". It has a mix of some old school progressive rock elements as well as some modern rock elements. I labeled this as a "Beginner"...
  3. 42 Tutorial · 4 lessons · 4m Blues Rock Etude Martin Miller Hey IG! This is the first installment of a three-part series on the good ol’ Blues. We’re going to take three steps, so each of the three tutorials will deal with a different type of blues, increasing in...
  4. 43 Tutorial · 3 lessons · 3m Mixing Time Signatures Rick Graham Hey and welcome to my Mixing Time Signatures tutorial! Checkout the video of the example riff and before we head over to the breakdown section, see if you can try and figure out what the time signature is and...
  5. 44 Tutorial · 3 lessons · 6m 'Use the Blues' Rick Graham Hey people! In this lesson I'd like to discuss basic 12 bar blues improvisation. Although this element of music is taught all over the world and has been for quite some time, I feel that a lot of players can...
  6. 45 Tutorial · 5 lessons · 6m Funky Blues Steve Hubbard Hey guys! This tutorial will focus on a beginner 'Funky Blues' riff, and will also include a modified example, as well as a short lead run! As mentioned in the above video, some techniques that may stand out...
  7. 46 Tutorial · 2 lessons · 4m 6/8 Blues - Miles Davis Mike Edwin In this lesson we will look at one rhythmic pattern that can be used when accompanying in 6/8. Our chord progression is based on the tune 'All Blues' by Miles Davis. Note that in the video I am playing...

Part 7More to Explore

  1. 47 Tutorial · 20 lessons · 1h 52m Guitar Setup 101 Richard Lundmark Welcome guitar slingers, to this behemoth of a tutorial on guitar set-up! Proper guitar set-up is something that everybody know is needed, but few know how to do. It’s sort of like the mechanics of a car. We...
  2. 48 Tutorial · 4 lessons · 18m Anvil Studio Composing Software Sean Conklin Welcome everyone! In this tutorial, we're going to take a look at a software program called Anvil Studio. This software is an excellent tool for musicians who wish to compose and more. And best of all, it's...
  3. 49 Tutorial · 12 lessons · 17m Time Feel - Working your Internal Metronome Tom Quayle Hi guys! Welcome to this tutorial - a lesson all about developing your internal metronome and time feel. Time in music is without a doubt the most important aspect of your playing. This has been demonstrated...
  4. 50 Tutorial · 8 lessons Songwriting Sean Conklin Creating a song is the most fulfilling experience that a musician can ever have. Whether it be a soft ballad, an epic instrumental, or a heavy metal headbanger, a song is a work of art with which the writer...
  5. 51 Tutorial · 4 lessons · 22m The Basics of Miking an Amp Steve Hubbard Hi guys, This tutorial focuses on some basic principles for miking a guitar amp, in both a live, and a studio situation. In each of the following videos, I'll include sound samples, to give you a proper...

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