Guitar student materials
Downloadable | Beginner 1 | Beginner 2 | Beginner 3 |
Print this sheet out for your chord charts and studies
Blank tab sheet
Print this sheet out for writing out tabs for tunes you want to learn or for your own music!
Print this sheet out for writing out tabs for tunes you want to learn or for your own music!
Strumming patterns
This exercise sheet will help you get a handle on strumming the guitar. The aim is to develop a sense of rhythm with your playing!
This exercise sheet will help you get a handle on strumming the guitar. The aim is to develop a sense of rhythm with your playing!
First Chords!
Your first chords! These are very hand-friendly and fun to do. Plus, you’ll be amazed at how many songs use them!
Your first chords! These are very hand-friendly and fun to do. Plus, you’ll be amazed at how many songs use them!
Chord Progressions! Some common chord progressions for your practice, including the chord pictures. See if you can identify some songs that use them.
Some common chord progressions for your practice, including the chord pictures. See if you can identify some songs that use them.
Beginner I
- Lesson One: parts of the guitar (video)
A quick introduction to the names of the parts of an acoustic guitar,
so we can know what to call them properly. - Lesson Two: Strumming the guitar. Download the strumming patter sheet above and we’ll use that to practice playing the guitar rhythmically.
- Lesson Three: How to read tablature. A quick introduction to tabs & how to make some sense out of them!
- Lesson Four: First Chords! Here’s a set of hand-friendly chords in the first position that will be fun to play!
- Lesson Five: Chord progressions. Here are some common chord progressions for you to practice rhythm guitar on.
- Lesson Six:
Beginner II
- Lesson One:
- Lesson Two: Simple Chord progressions. Play these progressions rhythmically. I bet you can hear some tunes you know. How many songs can you name that use these progressions?
- Lesson Three:
Beginner III
- Blues backing tracks! These are GREAT for working out your licks to! To start, note the key the track is in then play your pentatonic scale over the top of it. A terrific way to build your own style as a guitarist.