Beginner Lessons

Play more notes with fewer fingers, and get to grips with essential rock ’n’ roll, funk and soul shapes

How to incorporate the chords and composing tricks that built rock’s greatest riffs in your own writing

Beginner guitar: Play more notes with fewer fingers, and get to grips with essential rock ’n’ roll, funk, and soul shapes

Get to grips with an essential lead guitar technique with this easy lesson

Beginner guitar: learn rock, metal and punk riffs using just one chord shape

Beginner guitar: add one note to the minor pentatonic scale and unlock the formula for countless classic-rock riffs

Having learned your first chords, it's time to put them together with some easy techniques to make your transitions easier

A beginner's guide on how to strum chords in time

In this beginner guitar lesson, we explain what the different parts of the acoustic and electric guitar do

Beginners! Before you master the guitar, you've got to learn how to hold it. Fix your posture and your playing will follow