This tutorial shows you how to use a standard electronic tuner to tune your guitar.

This tutorial shows you how to use the Guitar Tricks Reference Tuner to tune your guitar.

This tutorial explores the mechanics of playing the guitar in more detail; this covers the physical motions required of your arms, hands and fingers. This tutorial explores the mechanics of playing the guitar for absolute beginners in more detail; this covers the physical motions required of your arms, hands and fingers.

Sick of having to spend money performing routine maintenance? Sick of your intonation being out? This series will help you learns ways to set up your guitar.

This tutorial explains how the CAGED system is a way of visualizing all the integrated, interlocking patterns that any given chord forms on a guitar fretboard. The name, CAGED, itself is a sort of acronym standing for the shape of the open chord forms C, A, G, E, and D.

Having viewed the lessons in this chapter on Combining Scales and Chords, you should have a basic understanding of the following things: Understanding how the C major scale and C major chord are related. How to switch back and forth between single notes (from the C major scale) and open chords (C major, A minor, F major and G major). How to switch back and forth between A major scale notes an...

Having viewed the lessons in this chapter on an Introduction to Music Theory, you should have a basic understanding of the following things: What musical intervals are. What the C major scale is. Proper picking technique for beginner scale exercises. How to practice the C major scale using various scale exercises. What the A minor scale is. How to practice the A minor scale using various s...

Guitar Fundamentals 1 & 2 will take you from the bare beginning - how do I hold the guitar? - all the way through to playing simple melodies, learning how to play all the most common major and minor chords, reading music, and ending with tutorials on how to play barre chords, the "power chords" behind most rock music. This section will show you four tutorials taken from Guitar Fundamentals 1 & ...

Let's start with the pick! The pick is more formally known as the plectrum. It is a small object held by a guitarist and used to strike the strings in order to create sound. Picks come in many shapes, sizes and are made in a variety of materials. The vast majority are triangular, or tear-dropped in shape, about an inch long, a millimeter thick and are made of plastic. The pick is held b...

Holding the guitar properly is absolutely essential. It is very important to work towards making any and all motions you make while playing guitar as smooth, efficient as possible. In order to do this, we start by focusing on proper body mechanics. Start with good posture! Sit up straight and do not slouch. Next, from your shoulder, to elbow, to wrist, hand and fingers, keep your body light ...