FREE Beginner Guitar Course: Strumming
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Guitar Fundamentals: Strumming
Hi there! The purpose of this course is to give you the most Minimum Essential Basic Fundamentals that you will need in order to comfortably go through the guitar song tutorials on this website. If you’ve never touched a guitar before in your life and are a complete and absolute beginner then this course is perfect for you 
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PART 1: Common Beginner Questions FAQ
- How To Hold a Guitar
- How To Hold a Guitar Pick
- How To Tune a Guitar to Standard Tuning
- Common Beginner Problems and What to Expect When Learning Guitar Chords
- What is a Guitar Capo and How it Can Help You Play More Songs
PART 2: “The Least You Need To Know” Guitar Lessons
Learning these fundamentals will help make it much much easier to go through the song tutorials on this site. There isn’t much and I guarantee it will help you by leaps and bounds!
Basic Chords
- How To Press and Pluck Guitar Strings
- C Chord
- G Chord
- Am Chord
- F Chord
- D Chord
- Em Chord
- Dm Chord
- Bm Chord
Basic Strumming
- How To Strum Without a Guitar Pick
- How To Strum With a Guitar Pick
- Strumming Pattern 1 Exercise
- Strumming Pattern 2 Exercise
Chord Progressions
If you want to learn more than just strumming and are interested in guitar plucking where you use your fingers to play specific strings, click here to check out the FREE beginner guitar course for plucking/fingerstyle.
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hi sir. your videos helped me a lot. thank you. may i request a song? Gift of a Friend by Demi Lovatto. thank you sir =D
ive been on this website for a while and it is helping me a lot i was wondeing i f you can make these songs for beginners one direction one thing, what makes you beautiful and gotta be you. Thank you so much for this amazing website.
YELLOW w/o capo by coldplay.
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Hi!! Thanks your video’s are really helping me. May i request a song also?? Strawberry fields forever. I haven’t played very long, so easy would be great. Thank you so much for all your help.
just wow i have tried sooooo hard to play guitar thank you so much
Hello Sir.
You are Great
I Only Learnt All From You in Just 5 Days
Its Very Helpful
Can You Please Upload The song
Hoobstank – The Reason
Please Please
sir, thank u so much ^_^
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super duper highper alpha mega THANK YOU
i just started teaching myself to play the guitar and im proud of myself so far, thanks alot and i would like to suggest a song, Torn by Natasha Imbruglia
hi there, the lessons were really helpful…can u do a lesson for Beth by Kiss? thank u!
finally i found a free guitar lesson online.. thank you so much!
i just bought a guitar to learn how to play it and im having a hard time 
but i wont give up just like you said 
ill keep watching your tutorials thanks a lot.. your awesome
This site helps me a lot learning guitar lessons very fast
thanks
Hi, I’m just about to learn to play the guitar. May I request some songs? Before the Worst by The Script and some more Ed Sheeran/Taylor Swift/The Script songs? Thank you!
Hello! I’m not quite to playing songs yet; still working on building up calluses (OW!), but I try to practice a little each day; hopefully it’ll happen soon. I’m also working on getting from one chord to the next without it taking forever. But I look forward to using your song tutorials, and especially “Falling Slowly.”
Thanks for your message about not giving up, because… well, frankly, my chords sound like crap, so far. They’re not out of tune, they’re just not right, yet. Good to know I’m probably not broken, and that eventually I’ll get there.
Thanks for helping us newbs learn!
thank you so much for your help! you are awesome
Thx Ian!! I have only used your website for learning how to play guitar I have been playing for about 4 months now and I have played more than half of the songs in the tutorial list. Playing things you love is really helpful soo thx.
you’re a freakin’ master!!! This website really did help me a lot. You deserve a medal! :p
I hope everyone elses nice comments really are true, Im just getting my chords down right now! hopefully I can learn enough from you to be considered “good”
the tutorial steps are easy to adobe n work so well to understand, thousand years in particularly. We are waiting for “GIRL ON FIRE” by Alicia Keys. Keep on your track to tutor beginners cos, you never know how impressed your tutorial for the beginners, and it will be never forgettable for me. Thanks…
This site is amazing! Thank you so much!
I love your tutorials so so much! Thank you for the time and effort you’ve put into these!
I would like to request a song also, if I could: If You’re Not the One, by Daniel Bedingfield (the acoustic version, of course).
I love your website. can i request a song? Heart attack by Demi Lovato. Thanks a lot!
This gives me hope and motivation to learn guitar ! Im gonna buy one and start learning !