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Electric Guitar For Beginners (Udemy.com)

Learn electric guitar from scratch. This course aims you to enjoy, have fun & learn how to play electric guitar.

Created by: Deniz Sayman

Last updated July 2023

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What you will learn

  • How to play electric guitar
  • Get To Know parts of electric guitar
  • How to Tune Electric Guitar
  • Flex & Warm Up
  • Practice Principals
  • How To Read Tableture
  • Right Hand Technique
  • Left Hand Technique / Left & Right Hand Coordination
  • Easy Finger Exercises
  • Scales & Major Scale Explained
  • Exercises in Major Scale (Includes Backing Track)
  • Minor Scale
  • Exercises in Minor Scale (Includes Backing Track)
  • Your First 2 Guitar Riffs (Includes Backing Track)
  • Note Values
  • Note Values Read & Play Exercises
  • Rest Note Values
  • Note Values with Rests Read & Play Exercises
  • Dotted Note Values
  • Your 1st Melody (Includes Backing Track)
  • Your 2nd Melody (Includes Backing Track)
  • Chords
  • How to play Chords? Easy Chords & Chord Transitions
  • More Easy Chords & Transitions

How it compares

Against the other 183 rated Udemy courses in Guitar on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.8 out of 5higher than 81% of them
  • Reviews368#53 of 184 by number of reviews
  • Length3.9 hourslonger than 56% of them
  • Last updatedJuly 2023more recently than 75% of them

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Course Description

(Updated 2021) This course aims to show a path to everyone who wants to learn guitar and build a solid foundation on the instrument together. I will be there for you during your journey, you're not alone only with the videos!

I created this course to share my 22 years of experience with music and especially electric guitar. During my journey I studied with legends like Greg Howe, Jennifer Batten, Martin Miller and Debbie Davies. I also practiced music theory & music production.

During these years I've been on the stage countless times; both small venues and big festivals. I've taught more than a thousand students both face-to-face and online for more than 15 years. With this experience I know common mistakes that most of guitar students make so I can anticipate them and warn you about them even before you make them!

In this course we'll build a solid foundation on the electric guitar. We'll also work on how to apply music theory to your guitar playing to broaden your vision on the instrument. Don't worry, no sheet music will be used :) And I promise you'll love what you can achieve when you learn these concepts.

After each topic you learn, there will be an example related to that topic. There are song, guitar melody, guitar solo examples that I prepared for you. I recorded all the guitars, drums and bass guitars with the greatest sound quality. You can mute my guitar and just play over those backing tracks, play the same exercise or try your own melodies. It's about having some FUN!

Styles You'll Learn


  • Pop

  • Blues

  • Rock

  • Hard Rock

  • Metal



How My Course Is Different Than Other Courses?

Besides the 22 years of experience and months spent to prepare this course with highest quality and detail; I use a Video / TAB & Notation integration application. In the resources tab of each lesson, you'll find a link. In that link you'll be able to practice the same lesson video with the TABS played along with the video (and notations if needed)!

With this application you can:


  • Slow down or fasten up the videos & tabs (so if you need to practice an exercise slow, you can just slow it down!).

  • You can zoom in & out of tabs & video.

  • You can run the application fullscreen on your tablet, phone and computer. No need to download anything.

  • If you are left handed, you can rotate the video so you can view the videos like they are played with a left handed guitar.

  • Lessons are split into sections in this application. So you can jump exactly to the right moment you'd want to listen again.

  • In examples (songs, melodies & solos) you can mute my guitar playing and just play over the backing track I prepared.

Community & Asking for Guidance

When you sign up to this course you'll receive a link to a facebook group. You can join that group and share your performance, ask for feedback and guidance. I'll also be active in that group.

You can ask any of your questions on Udemy aswell!

So, let's get started and have some fun!

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Instructor Details

Deniz Sayman

Deniz Sayman was born in 1987, graduated from Hacettepe University Physics Engineering in 2009

Deniz studied guitar and music theory with great teachers, including legends like Joel Hoekstra(Whitesnake, Cher & Trans Siberian Orchestra), Greg Howe, Jennifer Batten, Martin Miller & Debbie Davies. He also studied music production, singing, drums, keys and bass guitar.

Since 2004, Deniz played in various bands and been on both small and big festival stages. After his time working as a recording assistant in a music studio, he created his own studio and continued his work there.

2014 Deniz started a YouTube cover project with his singer İzgi Gültekin.

2015 Deniz formed Hard Rock Band "The Madcap". The band released the first record "The Madcap Rising" which all songs and lyrics were written by Deniz in 2017.

The Madcap toured various cities & countries, been on big festival stages and played in front of an audience of 40.000.

The band is now working on the new record which Deniz composed 9 songs for.

Since 2018 Deniz started created courses on Udemy and had more than 10.000 students!

2019 Deniz created his own guitar learning platform Müzik Üniversitesi (TR) .

2022 The Madcap has released a new music video Livin' in a Crime Scene.

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Reviews

4.8

368 ratings on Udemy

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By Mangatur Pasaribu on 1/7/2024

the course has been excellent so far! I appreciated the shadowing what its like after mastering each course lmao, My feedback is that id love to see estimated times for each lesson. I ended up overworking myself (and my hands almost bleed!) trying to catchup because i dint know the pace for each !

By Tahir Çiftçi on 8/2/2023

Gitarda başlangıçtan itibaren bu kadar eksiksiz ve akıcı ilerleyebileceğimi tahmin etmexdim sayenizde harika bir eğitim paketine sahip olduk deniz hocam diğer dersleride mutlaka edinip bol bol çalışacağım emeğiniz için sonsuz teşekkürler

By Alex on 7/27/2023

Me gustó que desde el principio mostrara cómo hacer técnicas interesantes como hammer on , pull off, bending, etc. son recursos interpretativos que te motivan mucho porque se escuchan genial! Pienso que este es un curso excelente para empezar a tocar guitarra porque tocas cosas muy entretenidas y te da buenos tips, por ejemplo, para saber cómo formar acordes más allá de los más comunes, eso me encantó. Yo lo complementaría con un curso de guitarra popular, donde aprendas cosas todavía más básicas como acordes abiertos, intervalos musicales y más ejercicios de púa alternada para dominar mejor esa técnica básica.

By Jan Outshoorn on 1/1/2023

Voor een beginner gaat deze cursus veel te snel. Er wordt uitvoerig verteld welke technieken je als gitarist kan beheersen, maar de oefeningen zijn te vluchtig en niet uitnodigend. Dat zou meer spelenderwijs kunnen (en moeten.)

By SK Farleystein on 3/2/2022

I'm re-learning skills from 40 years ago. Denis's teaching in a logical progression is helping a lot. Printing the exercises and putting them in a book to practice is very helpful. I really appreciate the exercises and backing music.

By Miguel Angel Umpierrez on 2/20/2021

Es el tercer curso de guitarra para principiantes que hago en Udemy, voy por la mitad y de momento éste es el que más me ha gustado. Los vídeos en ocasiones pueden ser un poco escuetos, pero como suele decirse, si lo bueno es breve, es dos veces bueno. Me encantan las melodías y canciones que utiliza para aprender y todo con enlaces web donde puedes ver las tablaturas y adecuar la velocidad de reproducción a tu nivel. Ló único que creo que podría mejorar es que los backingtracks fueran descargables. Espero que Deniz publique otro curso como continuación a éste y que tenga muchas melodías y canciones para aprender. Gracias.

By Arthur O'Leary on 1/30/2021

This is a very interesting Class. And will Journey to my other Classes. say maybe every 1 1/2 of Music. But It's really great for all skills and re-learning what you need to refresh on.

By Fahri Pulat on 12/10/2020

Deniz is a really good teacher. He tells us everything in the course that we need. That course is the most quality and cheapest course in udemy. Thank you Deniz.

By Lisa White on 11/21/2020

Deniz is very detailed and thorough, with easy to understand techniques and is inspiring. The videos are arranged in a logical way that flows smoothly. Highly recommended

By Eric Miller on 11/20/2020

This is a wonderful starting course from not only an experienced teacher of the guitar but an active band member. You will find everything in this course to get you properly starting out on guitar. I highly recommend this course for anyone who has yet to take lessons.

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