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Hands-On Guitar: The Beginner's Guide (Udemy.com)

The ultimate guitar learning system for absolute beginners!

Created by: TrueFire Guitar Lessons

Last updated January 2016

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What you will learn

  • Play acoustic guitar and acoustic guitar songs!
  • Tune your guitar and hold it properly
  • Read acoustic guitar chord charts and play chords

How it compares

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

  • Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 6% of them
  • Reviews385#51 of 184 by number of reviews
  • Length3.8 hourslonger than 55% of them
  • Last updatedJanuary 2016earlier than 92% of them

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Course Description

Welcome to your first guitar lesson! Some of you may be complete beginners never having held a guitar before, and some may have picked it up on your own but don’t feel like you’ve really mastered the basics. Either way, this course is for you. The guitar is an easy instrument to get good at quickly and within a few lessons you’ll be playing songs. Playing the guitar is a skill that you’ll have for the rest of your life. It’s a perfect relaxation tool, great socially, and both fun and easy.

I find that most beginning lessons either focus only on reading notes (which would bore me to death), or only on basic folk strumming and chords (and I like all styles of music). These lessons will give you an introduction to several different styles and all the lessons apply to either acoustic or electric guitar players. We’ll begin with shopping for a guitar and basic technique. By the time you finish the lessons you’ll be playing chords, well known riffs, tablature, fingerstyle,power chords, a twelve-bar blues, and a pentatonic scale. In the end, you’ll have a taste of all the basics and you can continue your lessons concentrating on the style that you like best. So lets get going and get our “Hands-On Guitar!”

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Instructor Details

TrueFire Guitar Lessons

Founded in 1991, TrueFire has collaborated with 600+ top educators to produce what Guitar Player Magazine calls "the planet's largest and most comprehensive selection of online guitar lessons."

1 million+ guitar players, from virtually every country in the world, "learn, practice, and play" with TrueFire's interactive video courses and patented learning systems for personalized and private online instruction.

TrueFire’s success is largely due to the quality of artists and educators that we’ve been privileged to work with over the years. From GRAMMY award winners, to top session players, to world renowned educators, TrueFire content is powered by the best in the biz.

TrueFire's course library features 25,000+ interactive video guitar lessons covering all styles, techniques and levels. Course material is available anytime, anywhere, on any device (desktop, mobile, and streaming).

TrueFire's proprietary technologies and patented methods for presenting online music lessons allow educators to provide personalized one-on-one and group instruction to students anywhere in the world.

TrueFire's team is passionate about music education and has a broad marketing and technology expertise that has earned them over 70 international creative, marketing, video and technology awards.

Practice smart and play hard with TrueFire!

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Reviews

4.3

385 ratings on Udemy

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By Esther on 8/21/2024

Good course but half of the resources are missing and repeated. However the instructor was clear and knowlegeable.

By Eric McKay on 11/10/2023

This is an amazing beginner to intermediate course. It incorporates playing techniques, music theory, and even mild improvisation. This course, and lots of practice, would make anyone a fine guitar player.

By Binaya Bhusan Bal on 9/3/2021

its very nice for a person who is starting from zero thank you so much I feel blessed to be your student and learn from you

By Brian Mulcock on 7/21/2020

yes i have a old hand me down cheap as chips ,but if i can learn basics i will have the info to look for better at a price i can pay for.

By Faisal Pasha M on 6/20/2020

I am a fresh new beginner and have never held the guitar in the past. This course covers all the required basics to under the guitar and play. I liked it so much and it builds the confidence level and all you need is a passion to get it going... Thank you so much for creating this course and making it free of cost. An exciting and excellent course for the beginners .

By Dmitry Belyavsky on 4/25/2019

Overall this is not a bad course. The instructions are mostly clear and to the point. The instructor does her best to go slowly. However towards the end, the exercises get rather suddenly complex and fast. Having had music instruction before I had no trouble following along. But I don't believe this not the course for the absolute beginners -- someone with no prior exposure to some musical theory and practice will likely feel lost in the second half as it picks up the pace. Finally at least a third of the attached resources is missing or is a duplicate of each other (that is the same resource is attached to several sections, it seems that some of the melodies are missing. I contacted the instructor through udemy, but never heard back from them. It seems other customers already complained as well -- doesn't look like the instructor is following up on this course actively.

By Tainara Oliveira on 4/1/2019

I just love the teacher. She is so assertive and warm that the lessons just come naturally, like we're in a conversation. I came here as an intermediate player to see if I forgot something and even the basic theory were reinforced and I feel more prepare to play basic stuff than ever!

By Jeff Cote on 10/24/2018

Section 2 lesson 16, the first real instruction on how to play has an issue and doesn't play. More than one person asked a question about it and there are no satisfactory answers or responses to actually address this. Going a little further is helpful and it may even be that the lesson is not terribly important, though its loss is frustrating. After that however the lessons thus far have been helpful and thorough.

By Paulo Alexandre Oliveira Pereira on 10/1/2018

Very simple and easy to understand her voice docile and gives you great information surrounding a beginner course.

By Giuseppe Roberto Marino on 11/1/2017

Very Good course. The teacher is very professional and clear. She teach very well in easy way. I like this course , it's great!

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Overall Score : 86 / 100