Rock Guitar Lessons: Teach Yourself to Play

Get a beginner's guide to rock guitar. Learn how to start immediately playing riffs and licks, reading music, playing chords, and learning guitar at your own pace.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Getting Started

• The parts of your guitar
• The acoustic guitar
• The electric guitar
• Which guitar is best for me?
• How to hold your guitar
• The amp
• The right hand
• The left hand
• How to tune your guitar

2. Basics of Reading Guitar Music

• Getting acquainted with music
• Getting acquainted with tablature
• Left-hand finger numbers

3. The Sixth String and Counting Time

• The sixth string E
• Sound-off: How to count time

4. The Fifth String

• The fifth string A
• Repeat signs

5. The Fourth String

• The fourth string D
• Playing two notes together

6. The Third String and Power Chords

• The third string G
• The quarter rest
• Power chords

7. The Second String and the First String

• The second string B
• The first string E
• Review

8. Scales and Chords

• The major scale
• Six-string E minor (Em) chord
• Quarter-note slash
• Five-string A7 chord
• Introducing high A
• Ties
• Eighth notes

9. Advanced Chords

• Four-string D7 chord
• Six-string E chord
• Introducing the eighth-note slash
• Five-string A chord

10. Strumming Patterns and More Scales

• 11 classic rock strumming patterns
• Sharps, flats, and naturals
• Signs of silence

11. Playing Two Notes Together and Moving Up the Neck

• Playing two notes together: Blues patterns
• Move up the neck on the 6th string
• Moving up the neck on the 5th string
• Moving up the neck on the 4th string
• Moving up the neck on the 3rd string

12. Advanced Chords and Licks

• More on power chords
• Six-string G chord
• Chords in standard notation
• Rock and blues licks and tricks
• The bend

13. Pentatonic Scales

• The E minor pentatonic scale
• The A minor pentatonic scale
• Incomplete measures or pickup

Conclusion

• Conclusion and credits