Building a Better Guitar Course
Guitar Noise is building a new guitar course for self taught guitarists.
“From Beginner to Intermediate” is designed to help the longtime beginner do more than just memorize songs from tabs and videos. If you’ve already played guitar for a while and still haven’t made much progress, this could be the right course for you.

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Building a Better Guitar Course
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Newsletter Highlights
Getting Started. Where to Begin?
The purpose of this newsletter is to help the beginner who doesn’t want to be a beginner anymore. If all you do is learn songs from guitar tabs or YouTube you’ll have a hard time learning to fly. The self-taught guitarist will eventually run out of runway.
Easy Country Fingerstyle Pattern
I want to share with you a country style fingerpicking pattern that you can apply to any chord progression. It’s a two part pattern that we’ll learn one part at […]
The Underappreciated Art of Using a Capo
What is a capo and do you use one? These and other questions are answered in this introductory lesson on using a capo.
6 Improvisations Games for Absolute Beginners
Almost every advanced guitarist likes to improvise and create music. However, this can seem like an unobtainable goal for beginners who need to focus so intensely on “right” and “wrong” […]
The Art of Accompaniment
In this first lesson on accompanying yourself with guitar we focus exclusively on using arpeggios to create interesting song arrangements.