21 Day Easy Rock and Blues Beginners Guitar Course (Udemy.com)
A new and exciting system for beginners to learn electric or acoustic guitar, with jam tracks, TAB and 21 guitar lessons
Created by: Julian Cooper
Last updated December 2025
What you will learn
- How to play real examples on the guitar, not pointless exercises. 21 tracks to learns with 3 different speeds and a bare drum and bass track.
- The skills of both rhythm and lead guitar. With full TAB, standard notation and chord charts. Suitable for Electric and Acoustic Guitar.
- Elements of Rock, Blues and Pop Music.
- Tons of chords, rhythms and strumming patterns.
- Major and minor chords, major and minor seventh chords, dominant sevenths, suspended 2nd and 4ths, add 9 chords etc. And how to use them in different keys
- How to apply Pentatonic scales, Major scales, Natural minor scales to real music in various keys.
- Power chord riffs and rhythms
- 4/4 and 6/8 time
How it compares
Against the other 183 rated Udemy courses in Guitar on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 46% of them
- Reviews39#159 of 184 by number of reviews
- Length3.1 hoursshorter than 54% of them
- Last updatedDecember 2025more recently than 90% of them
Course Description
The 21 Steps Beginner Guitar Course is suitable for everyone. It works on for electric and acoustic guitar and has all you need to start learning guitar. With elements of Rock, Blues and Pop Music, Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar and tons of great tracks to learn (all supplied at 3 different speeds), it's a whole bunch of fun and an extremely effective set of guitar lessons.
So let me start by asking you a question or two...
Have you tried to learn guitar before?
Maybe you want to learn but don’t know where to start?
Does is look too difficult or did you start playing guitar and quit?
Possibly you were introduced to an old school method that wasn’t effective... You know the drill, play an E major chord, then a strumming pattern and then change to the next chord. Sounds easy, but it’s not when you first start learning guitar.
This approach puts people off guitar immediately.
It’s frustrating, painful and boring. It can be a nightmare, especially as you have only just picked up a guitar, held a plectrum for two minutes and learned your string names. Coordinating two hands, keeping all the fingers on the strings and in the right frets etc. And then trying to change to the next chord it easier said than done.
In fact 90% of beginner guitarists give up for many of these reasons. The 21 Steps Beginners Guitar Course is designed to give you 100% chance of succeeding.
So what makes this course different to the multitude of beginners courses you can find?
Well, I put your enjoyment and success first. I am passionate about guitar and about teaching. I want you to have a blast and continue.
So firstly, we don’t start with chords and strumming, and we learn rhythm guitar and lead guitar melodies back to back, so it’s not all just chords and pain.
I spent nearly 30 years teaching guitar. Analyzing how beginner guitarists pick up guitar, what is possible for them to play immediately and what’s not. What creates pain, stress or tension and I saw how NOT starting with big open chords and strumming is way more productive for all involved.
We have a structured curriculum and a nice gradient to the lessons, you’ll never be pushed too hard of overwhelmed and you’ll have jam tracks at three different speeds to support your progress.
We take small achievable steps, with real tracks to learn for each of the 21 steps. You’ll learn all your chords and strumming patterns, but you will also learn scales - pentatonic, major and minor scales, melodies, lead guitar, triads and inversions, blues, rock and pop concepts, tons of rhythm guitar, a wealth of interesting chords, min and maj7, dom7, sus2 4, add9 and more.
Of course there will be strumming patterns – but only when you are ready and we will start simply. I design the first chord changes to flow very smoothly by using smaller chord shapes that flow seamlessly.
As I mentioned, all the steps work back to back, so if Step 1 has some chords, in Step 2 you’ll learn a melody that fits over it, so we do chords and lead alternately. This gives our fingers a break and makes it way more musical and way more interesting. In this way we work on strength, coordination, dexterity, scales and chord patterns.
You will be feeling like a real guitarist here in no time. Learning guitar in such a way that you’ll hardly notice all the chords and scales you are learning. The tracks are so much fun to play along with. You even get a bare track where you are the guitarist!
So do you want to be a statistic? One of the 90% who quit or do you want to be a guitar legend? I guarantee you with this course you have a 100% chance at success. This course works, as I said I have been doing this for nearly 30 years, with 1000’s of students worldwide and a bestselling course Pure Pentatonic Power.
See you on the inside, GuitarJoolz
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
39 Reviews
Julian Cooper
Julian Cooper is a British Guitarist, Professional Guitar Teacher and an Artist with over 25 years experience in the music business both performing and teaching.
With 1000's of students and a background of touring and recording with real bands, Julian is all about taking the pressure and theory-heavy-boredom out of traditional guitar teaching approaches. Providing courses that actually feel like 1-1 guitar lessons with a private guitar instructor.
Also a genuine guitar teacher by trade Julian has spent 15 years or more teaching in schools and colleges, with over 25 teaching privately - in-between gigs etc.
Preferring to Concentrate on 'real' world examples and provide lessons with clear objectives, lesson plans and jam tracks to play over. The jam tracks really help you feel like you are playing guitar in a band.
This approach makes learning effortless, enjoyable, interactive and puts the focus on student playing time. Not the teacher!
An infectiously passionate and dedicated teacher, Julian will show you all you need to know and more.
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Reviews
By Alfredo Leyzaola on 8/19/2025
Excellent course! Especially the way he explains things and the passion he conveys when playing the guitar and teaching you.
By Gary U Petrin on 1/9/2025
It was a very good refresher for an experienced guitarist that is getting back into the instrument, thanks.
By George M Sultage on 3/29/2023
The explanation wasn’t very clear.
By Dominic Digirolamo on 3/8/2023
I’m not a very beginner but I would still say I’m a beginner. After I discovered Guitar Joolz I decided I wanted to go back one more time to the very beginning and learn everything he has to offer. There is just know better instructor anywhere.
By Daniel Enright on 5/21/2022
The videos have high production quality. I find the volume level mix between the teachers voice and the guitar perfect. Thank you for helping me learn guitar!
By Alexander Frisch on 4/8/2022
I liked it very much to work out the 21 steps. Good teacher, clear instructions and fun to watch the videos and handouts. Great mp3 to play along. I just started another course.
By Rolando Marucut on 2/3/2022
Guitar Jools. Hi, I could not thank you enough for making this course available for anyone who wants to play guitar and having fun at the same time. I had several guitar lessons not only from Udemy but from other sources as well and as you said, they all have the same thing in common. Learn a few chords, learn a few strumming patterns, learn how to change from one chord to another and so on and yes, they are boring. Further, there's no real objective of pathway to follow that will eventually play on your own. Even with that, I have very little to show that I could really play the guitar. After watching your intro and step 4 sample of what I could learn from you, I knew then I found the real guitar teacher that I was searching for. Last, but not least, I am willing to trade all of those guitar lessons that I had for this one alone. Further, for other music lover like me who wants to learn how to play guitar, look no further, this is it. I will be adding more comments as I progress on this venue, Guitar Jools just opened the mystery box that we are searching for and it's not a mystery anymore. Cheers
By Nya Papp on 12/10/2021
This course is very easy to follow along with, and it gets you right into having fun with your guitar. The instructor does a great job at explaining what you are learning in simple terms while also teaching you the proper terms. I would recommend this course to anyone learning guitar for the first time.
By Ewan Mearns on 12/3/2020
Really enjoying this as a beginner - great teacher, easy to follow and can start to see how stuff is linking up without being overly technical
By Dazza S on 10/29/2020
Great step by step approach. Each section building and interlinking with each other. Rock & Blues based. This has got me back into learning guitar! Thanks Joolz!
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Overall Score : 92 / 100









