Looking for free beginner guitar lessons to get you started? Take a look at our collection, written by expert guitar teachers to help you understand the fundamentals of playing guitar. These free beginner guitar lessons are meant to be followed in order, but if you already are proficient in a certain area you can skip it and move on to the next. Good luck!

Lesson 1: Introduction & Tuning Your Guitar

1.2 Reading Guitar Tabs

Lesson 2: Warm-Up Exercises

2.1 The Chromatic Scale
2.2 Diagonal Minor Pentatonic Scale
2.3 String Skipping Exercise

2.4 Pinky Strength Exercise

Lesson 3: The Major Scale

3.1 Sixth String Position
3.2 Fifth String Position

Lesson 4: Open Chords

4.1 E Major / E Minor
4.2 A Major / A Minor / D Major / D Minor
4.3 C Major / C Minor / G Major / G Minor
4.4 F Major / F Minor

Lesson 5: Barre Chords

5.1 5th String Position Barre Chords
5.2 6th String Position Barre Chords

Lesson 6: Hammer-ons, Pull-Offs, String Bends and more!

6.1 Hammer-Ons

6.2 Pull-Offs

6.3 String Bends

Stay tuned for more free beginner guitar lessons - we're adding more every week!