Guitar Lessons

This collection of lessons includes lessons from Guitar Lesson of the Week (a now defunct mailing list). In addition, there are couple of Jim's Chord Study lessons and many of the lessons from the OLGA. If you've found these lessons useful and would like to them continue, you should send a message to the author and express your thanks. If they know that their work is appreciated, the better the chance that additional lessons will be written.

If you would like to get all these files at one time, download lessons.zip (154K), guitar-lessons.tar.gz (126K) or guitar-lessons.sit.hqx (216K). All the lessons on this page are included.

NOTE:If you plan on printing these lessons out, be careful. You might want to open the files in your favorite word processor and make sure that the page breaks do not occur in the middle of some TAB or fretboard diagrams. Otherwise, you might have a hard time following along. Also be sure to use a fixed space font (like Courier).

Guitar Lesson of the Week

Postscript versions of these lessons area vailable via ftp to metallica.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de (an informal archive site).

Lesson #1 - Basic Blues - by Olav Torvund
Lesson #2 - The Blues Melody and Blues Scale - by Olav Torvund
Lesson #3 - Blue Notes and Passing Tones, Bending - by Olav Torvund
Lesson #4 - Scale Harmonization and Chord Construction - by Dave Good
Lesson #5 - The Pentatonic Scale - by Bill Quinn
Lesson #6 - More Chord Construction Using the Major Scale - by Dave Good
Lesson #7 - Right and Left Hand Technique I - by Tim Fullerton
Lesson #8 - Development of Chords from Scale Tones in Thirds
Lesson #9 - Right and Left Hand Technique II - by Tim Fullerton
Lesson #10 - How Chords Work - by Dennis O'Neill
Lesson #11 - Right and Left Hand Techniques III - by Tim Fullerton
Lesson #12 - Modes I - by Dave Good
Lesson #13 - Octaves - by Bill Quinn
Lesson #14 - Major Triads I - by Roger Brotherhood
Lesson #15 - Right and Left hand technique IV - by Tim Fullerton
Lesson #16 - Major Triads II - by Roger Brotherhood
Lesson #17 - Right and Left hand technique V - by Tim Fullerton
Lesson #18 - Modes II - by Dave Good
Lesson #19 - Right and Left hand technique VI - by Tim Fullerton
Lesson #20 - Heavy Metal Guitar: The Basics - by Kevin Marcus
Lesson #21 - String Skipping - by Geoff Thorpe
Lesson #22 - Right and Left hand technique VII - by Tim Fullerton
Lesson #23 - Barre Chords - by Denny Straussfogel
Lesson #24 - The Minor Scale - by Ky MacPherson
Lesson #25 - Polychords - by Kevin Morgan
Lesson #26 - Power Chords - by Ky MacPherson
Lesson #27 - The Tonic - by Ky MacPherson
Lesson #28 - Top Note Chords (Voice Leading) - by Kevin Morgan
Lesson #29 - Everything on Harmonics - by Vincent Pagel

Jim's Chord Study Lessons

Written by Jim Lynch (jimlynch@netcom.com).

Lesson #1
Lesson #2
Lesson #3 - Dominant Chord Structures
Lesson #4 - Fully Diminished Chords

Other Lessons

Alternate Picking - By Judy Letostak.
The Art of Rasgueado (Classical/Flamenco) - By Paul Magnussen.
Basic Chord Theory - By Judy Letostak.
Beyond Power Chords - By Judy Letostak.
Building Finger Strength and Speed - By Gary Morris.
Diminished Chords - By Mike Livengood.
9th Chords - By Mike Livengood.
Figuring Out Chords - By Mike Livengood.
Figuring Out Songs - By Mike Livengood.
Modes - By Mike Livengood.
Scales and Solo Ideas - By Judy Letostak.
Soloing Basics #1 - By Mike Livengood.
Soloing Basics #2 - By Mike Livengood.
Soloing Basics #3 - By Mike Livengood.
Soloing Basics #4 - By Mike Livengood.
Triads - By Mike Livengood.

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