Free Guitar Lessons Guide
If you are looking for free guitar lessons you’ve come to the right place. Below you will find a quick list of our individual lessons organized by topic or by series. If you are a new to the guitar you’ll want to start with our beginner guitar lessons.
If you already have the basics down you can try our lessons on rhythm guitar or lead guitar. You may also want to browse our blues guitar lessons or some of our other guitar lessons for beginners. And if you want to play along to music you can try our free guitar jam tracks.
If you’re serious about fast-tracking your progress check out the GuitarLessons.com Academy. It’s a step-by-step approach that makes it easy to unlock your full potential on the guitar. Plus, it includes a huge library of jam-tracks that you can use to develop practical experience.
Whether you are brand new to playing the guitar or just want to brush up on the basics this is the place to start. The lessons in this series apply to playing acoustic or electric guitar.
These lessons are ideal for guitarists interested in playing popular songs, jamming with friends, or performing live with a band. You'll learn essential tips for playing rhythm guitar.
- How To Play Rhythm Guitar
- How To Play Power Chords
- How To Use Power Chords
- How To Play Bar Chords
- Major Bar Chord Shapes
- Minor Bar Chord Shapes
- Common Chord Progressions
- How To Play Open Chords
- Essential Strumming Patterns
- Developing Timing And Feel
- Dynamic Strumming Tips
- Next Steps For Rhythm Guitar
If you are interested in playing lead guitar or performing guitar solos these lessons are perfect. They cover important tips and techniques to help you start expressing your creativity.
- How To Play Lead Guitar
- Basic Picking Technique
- The Major Guitar Scale
- The Major Pentatonic Scale
- The Minor Pentatonic Scale
- How To Bend Guitar Strings
- Learn How To Use Vibrato
- Hammer-Ons & Pull-Offs
- How To Play A Guitar Solo
- Playing Your First Solo
- Major Pentatonic Shapes
- Next Steps For Lead Guitar
This series will help take your creativity and musicianship to the next level. Not only is the blues an important style of music, but it can also influence the way you play other styles.
- How to Play Blues Guitar
- The 12-Bar Blues Progression
- Dominant Seventh Chords
- The Basic 12-Bar Blues Riff
- Intermediate 12-Bar Blues Riff
- The Blues Guitar Scale Shape
- How the Blues Scale Is Made
- How to Choose Blues Notes
- Blues Phrasing & Expression
- Turnaround Blues Guitar Licks
- Add Licks to the Blues Riff
- Next Steps for Blues Guitar
This is a collection of bonus lessons for beginners. Unlike the Beginner Guitar Quick-Start Series these starter lessons are self-contained and are not part of an extended series.
- 3 Country Lead Guitar Tips
- 8 Chords You Must Know
- 5 Tips For Great Bar Chords
- 5 Essential Strumming Patterns
- 7 Mistakes Guitar Players Make
- 7 Minute Legato Workout
- 7 Essential Scale Shapes
- Building Guitar Finger Dexterity
- Changing Chords Smoothly
- First Beginner Guitar Lesson
- How To Read Guitar Tabs
- Pentatonic Navigation Tips
- Play 10 Songs With 4 Chords
- The 100 Scale Challenge
If you are looking for some of our older lessons you can find them in the guitar lesson archive. You may also be interested browsing our guitar lessons on YouTube. There you can learn how to play guitar with all of our most popular beginner guitar lessons, rhythm guitar lessons, lead guitar lessons, and blues guitar lessons. There is something for guitar students of all skill levels.
