Beginner Acoustic Guitar Lessons

Learn how to play beginner songs on one acoustic guitar!

The songs you are about to learn should not just be memorized.

By following the path of the 'Guitar Conspiracy' you will also learn from the songs.

The first thing to do is to turn a chord name like C into a roman numeral like I, or an Am into a VI.

By using this type of chord language you will learn how music works rather than having to remember a letter combination.

You will soon find similarities between songs and towards the end of your beginner studies you might even be able to predict a chord by just listening to the melody.

Chord Lessons

All songs have chord lessons that demonstrate how you could arrange a song for just one guitar.

Some of the songs are unique arrangements, some are note for note replicas.

Most of them are somewhere in between, like 'Wonderwall' shown here on the right, for example.

Your aim when learning these songs should be to understand them on a higher level than just repeating memorized patterns.

Make sure you think of a D chord in G major as a V chord.

In 'Redemption Song' for example, the D chord is a V chord.

Can you hear how G has the same function in 'The Drugs Don’t Work'?

Rhythm Lessons

Every song also has a rhythm guitar lesson, like 'Ain't No Sunshine', shown here on the left.

Using both finger style, strumming and picking arrangements you should after learning all songs be able to arrange any song that use open position chords.

The e Book ‘Acoustic Finger Style Guitar’ demonstrates how a pattern can be applied to any chord.

If you want to get into arranging your own songs then this is the book for you.

To learn more about rhythm guitar and to fully understand how to count music, check 'Rhythm Guitar'.

For extra help, video your own performance, video respond on Youtube.

Acoustic Finger Style Guitar e Book