This is a great exercise to get all your fingers working. The hardest thing to do as a beginner is to keep your fingers on the guitar.

TAB (Tablature) is a simple way of reading sheet music for stringed instruments. I will explain how to read it on guitar.

Let's take your strumming skills up a level and also make you sound more accomplished and professional with one easy technique.

Let's look at a couple of strumming patterns using quarter and eighth notes.

Starting with two simple note values. Quarter Note which is 1 beat long and an Eight note which is half of a beat long.

Looking at the D major chord 'D' and the D minor chord 'Dm' and the difference between the two chords.

C Major for a beginner is tricky to play. It requires the 3 techniques I spoke about in the fretting hand video to be near on perfect.

I'll show you a very basic and easy song I wrote for you as your first song. It's just using two chords Em and Am.

Learning how to read a chord is a valuable lesson. You will see these in many guitar lessons, books or be handed one by another musician.

Another good chord for beginner guitar players is Am 'A minor'

G Major is a little bit tricker than the last two chords I showed you. Just remember playing the guitar is totally alien, so be patient.

I'll start you off with two relatively easy chords. E major and E minor.

Keeping the theory as simple as I can. I will teach you the difference between a major and a minor chord.

To be able to play chords and learn new chords you need to understand how to read chord diagrams. It’s very important you can read these.

In this video I explain the names of the notes of the open strings on the guitar. I also the numbers of the strings, often explained wrong.

The strumming hand is often overlooked by guitarist. It is the voice of your instrument & you. Very important to start with good technique.

Your fretting hand is what makes contact with the strings and holds down your notes and chords so it is crucial we get this right.

A quick lesson showing you the parts of the Electric Guitar. Important information for learning how to play the electric guitar.

I quickly go over the parts of the acoustic guitar. Important to know when learning to play the guitar.