Get started
Two choices, and you’re off: your guitar, then your course.
1. Your guitar
Your course:
Which guitar do you play?
The course adapts: the shared lessons, plus the ones specific to your guitar. You can switch anytime; your progress is kept.
2. Your course
Or choose your level:
Choose your guitar to continue.
Your course
Beginner
You’ve never played, or you started on your own without a method.
Goal: Play a whole song with open and barre chords, back up a shuffle blues and improvise a short solo.
8 steps, about 3 months at 15 minutes a day
You should already be able to
- A guitar
- 15 minutes a day
Your course
Intermediate
You play songs, but you don’t always know what you’re playing.
Goal: Find your way around the whole neck, understand a song’s harmony and improvise in minor, blues and major.
8 steps, about 4 months
You should already be able to
- Switch between G, C, D and Em in time at 80
- Play a whole song from its chord chart
- Play a clean F barre chord
- Improvise with the A minor pentatonic in position 1
- Back up a shuffle blues
Your course
Advanced
You improvise all over the neck and you know your scale degrees.
Goal: Play freely, soloing and comping: modes, arpeggios, advanced harmony, technique, transcribing and songwriting.
8 steps, 5 to 6 months
You should already be able to
- Find any note on strings 6 and 5
- Name the chords in a key
- Improvise across all 5 pentatonic positions
- Play funk and reggae in sixteenth notes
- Play maj7, m7 and sus chords as barre chords