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Welcome to Guitar for Beginners and Beyond!

If you're a beginner and you've made your way to this site because you're wondering where to begin your guitar playing journey, be sure to check out my plain English Guitar and Music Primer. This will take you through the fundamentals of Music and how it relates to the Guitar. All of the written and graphic content (all 50 pages) is completely free, so take your time and have a read through, if you like what you read, you might want to upgrade and get access to the 94 videos. Click here for details.

Kirk Lorange


Know Your Guitar The Guitar Buying your guitar Anatomy of a guitar Tuning your guitar Restringing a guitar Music Theory Basics What is music? Notes Map of the fretboard The Major Scale The C Major scale Other scales Time Tempo		Chords Chords Defined The open Major chords The open Minor chords The open Major 7th chords The open 7th chords The open B7 chord The open Minor 7th chords Barre Chords defined E-form Barre Chords A-form Barre Chords Suspended 4 chords Suspended 2 chords Extended chords defined Extended chords Power chords Slash chords - Inversions Diminished, Augmented, 6th Simple progressions Trickier progressions The CAGED System Chord Finder		Playing Your Guitar Playing the guitar Reading Tablature Strumming Hammer ons Pull offs Finger picking Harmonics Vibrato Bending Muting Sliding Slide Guitar Using a capo Transposing