Intermediate Acoustic Guitar Lessons

Learn how to play intermediate songs on one acoustic guitar!

These video guitar lessons will teach you songs with more advanced chords than at 'Beginner Acoustic Guitar Lessons'.

We now use barred chords and fractions of barred chords, paired with licks and bass lines to spice up a the guitar arrangements.

Learn what is in the video, then come up with your own variations.
The more you use the DIY TABs the better you will understand the fretboard and musical harmony in general.

As usual the lessons are divided in Chord and rhythm guitar lessons, as your understanding of the guitar grows, do come up with your own variations of these arrangements.

Try different inversions, develop your own picking and strumming patterns and maybe even extend a few chords to make the arrangements your own.

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Intermediate Guitar Chord Lessons

In these lessons we learn songs with more advanced chords than just the normal open position chords. These chords are called "barred chords" and should be memorized all over the neck.

We also include some bass lines, a few melodies, extended chords and even some slash chords.

Pair the studies of these songs with the chord, chord progression and scale exercises at 'Intermediate Practice Routine' to get the full benefit of the material.

The Guitar Conspiracy, Chordacus, SWS and the Work Book are essential tools and should be used on a daily basis when learning the guitar.

Mad World for example, has a solo melody for the intro, do not memorize this melody, instead think of it as what scale is used and what interval it starts on.

Thinking in this way will enable you to understand music rather than memorize individual pieces.

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Intermediate Rhythm Guitar Lessons

Most of the songs here at 'Intermediate Acoustic Guitar Lessons' are played with a pick and will teach you how to strum and pick your way through an arrangement using a pick in different ways.

Should you struggle with your picking technique you could try some Rhythm and Spyder exercises at 'Practice Intermediate'.

Understanding rhythm has a lot to do with being able to read rhythm, the transcription section will help you with this.

The lesson example used here on your left is Jason Mraz's 'I'm Yours'. This is an original Spytunes arrangement, make sure you start the rhythmical pattern with an upstroke.

Notice how the picking hand is in constant 16th pace motion. This is the key to staying in time, make sure your wrist is loose and relaxed as well.

To get started with the intermediate lessons: pick a song from the list above.