Let’s learn how to hold your guitar properly. You want to be sitting comfortably in an armless chair with your seat back straight up and down, ensuring your back is straight. If you’re not sitting in a chair or the chair you’re using doesn’t have a seat back, that’s totally fine — just make sure ...

You will need a tuner in order to tune your guitar strings to the correct pitches. It’s also important to note that you will need to continuously tune your strings right after replacing them, as they will need a bit of stretching out. The best way to do this is to just play normally for a minute,...

You don’t have to change your guitar strings at this exact moment, however it will be an important skill to have as you advance as a guitar player. Indications that your strings need to be changed are if they look or feel rusty or discolored. Another sign your strings have reached the end of thei...

We’re going to look at the different parts of your guitar first so you can understand what they do and how they can help you. Let’s begin with our volume knobs. While each guitar is different, you can be sure that every electric guitar will have at least one volume knob. You’ll notice the green g...

Reading tablature, also known as tabs or TAB, is a very important skill to have for beginning guitar players. TAB is a great way to begin your quest of learning different music and a new language used by millions of guitar players around the world. You’re going to be very surprised at just how qu...

Now we’re going to learn some more chords to continue building your repertoire of chord knowledge. With each of the new chords we’re about to learn, keep in mind the rules in of successfully playing a chord. Once you have your finger strength built up from the chords you learn in this lesson, I h...

There are three rules to successfully playing a chord, and the first rule is to make sure you’re pressing your fingertips down on the strings hard enough so each note of the chord ring out evenly without being muffled. This is why finger strength is so important — if you don’t press down hard eno...

Building up your finger strength is crucial to being able to do practically anything on the guitar. It’s important to understand if you’ve never played the guitar before, you’re going to be asking your fingers to do movements, stretches, and bends that they’re not used to doing, so don’t be disco...

A popular technique to use on power chords and other guitar riffs is called muting, also known as palm muting. Muting is achieved by resting the meaty part of your palm (hence, palm muting) on the strings as you strum them, finding the perfect balance between full ringing of the notes and complet...

Now that we have some more chords in our pocket, let’s apply the strumming patterns from a previous lesson to create some awesome new chord progressions for you to practice. As always, start slow with your metronome, and slowly increase the tempo as you get comfortable with the chords.

Without a solid foundation of rhythm, music is not really music at all… it’s just noise. Developing a strong sense of internal rhythm starts with practicing simple patterns with a metronome. From there, you can either speed up or, what’s sometimes even harder, slow down the tempo. Pattern #1 will...

You’re going to learn one of my favorite types of chords now — the power chord! There are many reasons I love power chords, and I’ve listed a couple key reasons below. Aside from power chords sounding sweet, they are easy to play because once you memorize the shape of a power chord, you can move ...

We’re now nearing the end of the Beginner’s Corner. It’s sad, I know, but all good things must come to an end. The exciting thing is, this is really just the beginning for you! I highly encourage you to use the materials and video content in this particular area of Guitar Super System to go back ...

If I knew all these tips when I was a budding guitarist, I'd have progressed much quicker. I hope these approaches help you!