Welcome to this essential guitar tutorial for beginners. In this lesson, we dive deep into why tuning your guitar is so important and teach you...
Learning Guitar for beginners in 2025
In a world of guitar playing ‘rabbit holes’, learning plateaus and information overload … Here’s how to make sure you start 2025 excited, refreshed...
10 Lessons I’ve Learned From Posting Guitar Tuition Videos In 2024
Always keep learning. It's the only way to stay engaged. I teach guitar and have taught guitar for a long time. I may once have looked at it...
How to build chords from scales – C Major | Music Theory
Learning how to build chords using the notes from scales is one of the most useful things I ever learned in music theory. It has joined so many...
8 things every guitarist wants AND needs (useful gift ideas)
There are gadgets and gimmicks and things that look useful but the reality is that not all of the things you're told to add to your guitarist kit...
LINGER by The Cranberries (picking & rhythm) incl. EASY strum version – Song Lessons
Linger is an excellent song from 1993 to learn on guitar. The Cranberries picking intro really sets up and identifies the song. Today we're looking...
QUE SERA, SERA by Doris Day (3 Chords) – Song Lessons
Que Sera, Sera is a fantastic 3 chord song for a bit of fun on the guitar. The wonderful Doris Day performed...
PRETTY WOMAN by Roy Orbison (riff & chords) – Song Lessons
Roy Orbison released Oh, Pretty Woman in 1964. This is a legendary song. Catchy. A perfect tune for your strumming & singing repertoire...
TEENAGE DIRTBAG by Wheatus (chords & riffs) – Song Lessons
Today we're looking at Teenage Dirtbag from the year 2000. What an awesome song by wheatus. This is a fantastic campfire singalong song. It's a...
Let’s Talk About Guitar Practice
How do I practice? Do I practice? Yes, I practice. This blog is two things really.... It's born out of a conversation I had with a...
Answers to 5 Common Guitar Student Questions
I have been teaching guitar and music theory full time for 14 years at this point. I have been asked a lot of questions and have taught a lot of...
6 Questions I ask people enquiring about guitar lessons (and why)
So, why do you want to learn guitar?... As somebody who is being paid to teach I like to understand peoples hopes, motivations and goals when they...