Easy Rock Guitar for Beginners (Udemy.com)
Rock Guitar Lessons for Beginners with Multi-Speed Jam Tracks and Guitar TAB
Created by: Julian Cooper
Last updated April 2020
What you will learn
- How to use power chords in a song format
- Pentatonic scales, Blues scales and easy guitar solos
- Open chords in the key of E and A
- Various riffs using scales in minor and major keys
- Techniques such as hammers on, pull offs, slides, bends, vibrato and palm muting
- Rock guitar lessons in a band type setting - Guitar lessons have performance pieces/jam tracks at 3 different speeds
- A bare jam track where you becomes the band's guitarist
- Melodies and licks to perform over rhythm tracks
- Various rhythm guitar styles
- Natural minor scales, Major scales, triads and inversions
How it compares
Against the other 183 rated Udemy courses in Guitar on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.9 out of 5higher than 95% of them
- Reviews178#86 of 184 by number of reviews
- Length3.4 hourslonger than 51% of them
- Last updatedApril 2020earlier than 57% of them
Course Description
Easy Rock Guitar for Beginners is exactly what it says 'on the tin'. A finely tuned set of Rock Guitar Lessons for the Beginner Guitarist, bought to you by respected UK based Guitar Teacher and Musician - GuitarJoolz.
It's simple, it's fun and you even get to join the band!
This 'school of rock' begins with the very basics of rock guitar and proceeds through 28 guitar lessons. Taking you from a complete beginner to intermediate level in no time at all. Each lesson has a jam track to practise along with so you always feel completely involved, much like private 1 on 1 guitar lessons.
Think of this course as a package of real rock guitar lessons, each containing useful tools to further your skills as as beginner to intermediate guitarist.
As a guitar teacher, when I design a course, it is my goal to make the lessons feel as close as possible to a real guitar lesson. I draw upon all my resources, lesson plans, experience and influences from the world of rock and blues to bring you the best content I can provide.
All jam tracks are provided at 3 different speeds so you will never struggle to keep up. A bare track is also provided so you can actually become the guitarist. This features makes my courses rather unique in their approach. It also makes it a lot more enjoyable, and we all know that enjoyment equals faster, better learning.
You always have something real to practise, never just a scale, or riff, or set of chords left to fly blind with- you are completely immersed and involved from the start.
You have easy to follow guitar tabs on screen with PDF printouts available, HD twin camera angles, demonstrations of all rhythms and lead guitar, easily digestible lessons split into 30 videos, professionally recorded jam tracks with music all composed by GuitarJoolz and you also have the security of over 25 years of teaching experience, so you can relax and know you are in safe hands.
Early lessons cover power chords, simple rhythms, easy guitar riffs, basic chords and slow tempo. As we advance things get a little faster and more complex. Adding techniques such as, hammer ons, pull offs, slides, bends, vibrato, palm muting, alternate picking and many of the styles and secrets of your favourite guitar based rock bands.
We cover basic open chords, power chords with and without a root note, easy guitar solos, melodic and rhythmic concepts, barre chords, triads, inversions, pentatonic scales, blues scales, minor scales, major scales, chords including (9th, sus2, sus4, major, minor, min7th, 7#9), and easy guitar riffs etc. Most importantly, you'll actually apply everything you learn to real examples.
There is a section, towards the end of this Rock Guitar course, dedicated to easy guitar solos and lead guitar. There are four huge rock guitar licks to learn in the keys of A Minor Pentatonic and A Major Pentatonic.
The lessons start super easy. They are designed as guitar lessons for beginners. They get harder as they go along and by the end of the course you will be at an intermediate level of guitar playing.
So don't hang about, dive straight into this easy set of rock guitar lessons and get rocking!
Your guitar teacher GuitarJoolz.
Instructor Details
- 4.9 Rating
178 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 Jozef Vrabel on 2/20/2026
Wow… it’s hard to find the right words. But I’ll try. This course is simply amazing — truly fantastic. It’s a perfect introduction to rock guitar. It’s not for complete beginners, but you learn an incredible amount. Most importantly, everything is perfectly connected to real musical context, so you actually feel like you’re playing music instead of constantly memorizing exercises. The course is a perfect combination of high-quality teaching and the real reason we all learn this instrument — playing rock music on the guitar. Thank you. And so I don’t lose the momentum, I’m immediately continuing with the recommended courses “Pure Rock Guitar” and “Pure Pentatonic Power.”
By Paweł Radziszewski on 12/30/2025
A phenomenal course by Guitar Joolz. The curriculum is very well structured, with each section progressively increasing in difficulty—from simple riffs at the beginning to lead guitar work toward the end. Despite the word “Easy” in the title, this course is anything but easy. For beginner guitarists, it presents a serious challenge and a true test of discipline and perseverance, which ultimately makes it even more rewarding.
By Steven White on 11/19/2025
I think the excercises are really good. GuitarJoolz is a fabulous teacher. The information presented is thorough and informative. There are lots of great tips. Visually informative and easy to follow. Many rock styles are covered. One criticism would be that the tabs could be presented in a more logical form that conforms to certain rules of musical notation. Despite this they are easy enough to read and can be corrected using Guitar Pro 8.
By Andrey M on 8/26/2025
Halfway through the course, I'm absolutely loving it. It feels like going to the real guitar teacher, only you don't really need to go anywhere :) The explanations are perfect, and I absolutely love the excercises: the pace, the variety (it's just fun to play every one of them and I'm super excited to hear what the next one is!), and the fact that they're not overly complicated and bring joy instead of struggle. Thank you GuitarJoolz :)
By Arseny on 4/2/2025
This course really helped me to get back to playing guitar after a very long break. Some of the riffs and leads provided here were somewhat more challenging than I expected, but it all was very fun to learn and play, and a good opportunity to practice most of the essential rock rhythm techniques as well as the important lead basics. Highly recommended to anyone who can play some basic electric guitar (or at least knows how to hold a pick and press frets) and wants to improve their technique and start playing some actually cool stuff!
By Albert Campisto Mas on 12/29/2024
Muy divertido e interesante. Algunas partes pueden costar más que otras si no se tiene ninguna o poca experiencia con la guitarra. Pero dentro de la sencillez de las escalas y ritmos, hay un montón de patrones que pueden dar muy buenas ideas para hacer canciones al estilo del rock clásico y entretenerse y divertirse mucho. totalmente recomendable.
By Eran Mizrachi on 10/13/2024
Excellent course Explains in a simple easy and understandable way step by step Even when I am an advanced guitarist the course is very useful Gives a large and beautiful variety of rock tunes And from there it can be developed into infinite variations Very glad I took this course And recommend to all beginner and advanced guitar players
By Rob Edwards on 10/24/2020
I started learning the guitar in my teens in the late 70s and just taught myself by playing riffs over and over on the record player and trying to work out what notes they were playing, and wearing out the records in the process. Consequently I never got very far and then dropped out of the habit of playing. I picked it up again in the lockdown and this course has taught me everything I wish I'd known before. Now I'm moving on to Pure Pentatonic Power and really enjoying my rediscovered hobby. Thanks Joolz. Excellent teacher!!
By Alexandre Santos on 7/4/2020
My guitar was hung on the wall for quite some time before I decided to start studying again. As I hadn't played for a few years, I decided it was best to start over with a basic beginner's course and Joolz's approach in the demo appealed to me. After taking a few lessons I can say that not only was I not dissapointed, I actually loved this course. Joolz is charismatic, a great guitar player and teacher. The tracks are well recorded and great to play along. I can't wait to start his other courses.
By Sunny Wong on 4/1/2020
Very interesting teaching from Julian as usual. This is a very good course with lot of fun exercises.
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