Foundations
From first chord to confident rhythm playing. The essentials, taught in the right order.
- B
- Basics
- T
- Theory
- S
- Song
- R
- Rhythm
- L
- Lead
First steps
Hold it, tune it, and play your first clean chords.
Meet your guitar: the six strings
Before chords, before songs, before anything: the six strings, their names, and the two tricks for never forgetting them.
The key of C: your home base
Every song lives in a key, and C is the friendliest one — no sharps, no flats, and six chords that power thousands of songs. Learn the scale and the chord family.
Your first song: Happy Birthday
The most-played song on Earth, and it's public domain — three chords from the key of C, a singable melody, and a guaranteed audience every year.
Music theory on the fretboard
Keys, chords, and the maps that make the neck make sense.
The fretboard map: finding every note
The neck stops being a mystery the day you can name what's under your fingers. Two anchor strings, one octave trick, and the whole map unlocks.
The circle of fifths, decoded
One diagram organizes every key in music — which sharps, which flats, which keys are neighbors, and why so many songs move the way they do.
Chord families: every key's seven chords
Every key comes with a built-in family of seven chords, and the pattern is identical in all twelve keys. Learn it once, own it everywhere.
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