About Six Strings
Six Strings is a site to learn guitar by reading: short lessons in order, a reference you can check in ten seconds, and tools to play with. Free and ad-free, with an optional account.
What you’ll find here
- A course of 15-minute lessons, in order, from first picking up the guitar to improvising, for acoustic or electric guitar.
- A reference: chords, scales, techniques and basics, each with a diagram, a sound and its positions on the neck.
- Tools to play with: the Studio to jam over a groove, the tuner, warm-up exercises and chord transcription for a song.
Why a site you read
A clear page takes seconds to check, you can reread it, and you follow it at your own pace. No need to dig for information in the middle of a video. The details are in the methodology.
Free, optional account
There’s nothing to pay, and nothing to create to use the site. Without an account, your progress is saved in your browser, on your device. With an account, it follows you on all your devices. The site shows no ads and doesn’t track its audience. It’s all explained on the personal data page.
How the content is made
Diagrams, sounds and positions are calculated from the notes of each chord and scale, then checked automatically: a chord can’t show a finger on the wrong fret, and a lesson can’t use a chord you haven’t learned yet. The songs in the library are public-domain songs or original compositions.
A comment?
A mistake on a page, an idea for a lesson, a song to add: head to the contact page.