Learn guitar on your own, one stage at a time.
Four stages, from your first open chords to the whole neck. Each one teaches chords, lead playing and your ear together, with every chord, scale and exercise ready to play right here.
Three tracks in every stage, each at its own pace: your chords can be at stage 3 while your soloing is still at stage 2.
Rough order, not a ladder.
Nothing has to be mastered before you move on. Each stage ends with a simple check for every track, so you know when you're ready, and you can always come back.
- 1Open stage 1
Stage 1 · Beginner
First chords
Eight open chords, two simple melodies and the names of the notes on the two lowest strings. That is enough to play hundreds of songs.
- 2Open stage 2
Stage 2 · Improver
More chords, first solos
Colour chords that need no barre, power chords, and your first scale: the minor pentatonic, over a 12-bar blues.
- 3Open stage 3
Stage 3 · Intermediate
Barres and the neck
Barre chords open up every key, triads give you small chords anywhere, and the pentatonic spreads across the whole neck.
- 4Open stage 4
Stage 4 · Advanced
Colour and the whole neck
Five CAGED shapes per chord, the chords that live next to each other, 7th and extended voicings, and the modes.