A common question we receive is “What order should I read the lessons in?”
This is something that is going to depend a lot on you. Everyone who comes here will be playing guitar at a different level. Also, there will be some areas that interest some more than others. Rather than leaving things totally in the wind, several of our lessons have been written in a series format. This page has some of the more popular series that will more than get you started.
Strumming for Beginners
Getting Past “Up and Down” – Part 1: “Sock Puppets”
Keeping Time
Strumming for Beginners
Fingerstyle or Finger Picking
Basic Travis Finger Picking Tutorial – Part 1
Basic Travis Finger Picking Tutorial – Part 2
Dust In The Wind - Songs for Intermediates #26
Picking Your Poison
Improvisation for the Fingerstyle Guitarist
Improvisation for the Fingerstyle Guitarist II
Turning Scales Into Solos
Choosing Colors – Turning Scales into Solos – Part 1
One Note At A Time – Turning Scales into Solos – Part 2
The Major and the Minor – Turning Scales into Solos – Part 3
Combining The Major Scale With The Minor Pentatonic – Turning Scales into Solos – Part 4
Color Me Blue – Turning Scales into Solos – Part 5
Walking Basslines
Connecting The Dots – Part 1
Connecting The Dots – Part 2
Connecting The Dots – Part 3
Connecting The Dots – Part 4
Ear Training
Happy New Ear
Unearthing The Structure
Solving The Puzzle
Alternate Tunings
Open Tuning Part I – Look, Ma, No Hands!
Open Tuning Part II – Here There Be Monsters
On The Tuning Awry
Cover Story
Alternate Writing Styles
Learning to Play Solos
Leading Questions
Tricks of the Trade
Picture in Dorian Gray
Music Theory
Theory Without Tears
The Musical Genome Project
The Power of Three
Building Additions (and Suspensions)
Multiple Personality Disorder
A Before E (Except After C)
Scales Within Scales
Five To One – (or Home, home again…)
You Say You Want a Resolution…
Chord Theory
The Musical Genome Project
The Power of Three
Building Additions (and Suspensions)
