Learn guitar
9 steps from tuning to the first song, each with a page that computes rather than claims: shapes, notes on the neck, songs, metronome. Free, no account.
This is not a video course but the order in which the reference pages and tools on this site make sense when you start from zero. Every step has a page; skip what you already know.
The path
- 1TuneBefore every session. The tuner shows which string you are on — E A D G B E.
- 2The notes on the neckOpen strings, the fifth fret, the twelfth — four rules, then every note is findable.
- 3The first chordsEight open shapes, chosen by effort and use. One after the other, clean first, fast later.
- 4Changing in timeTwo shapes, a metronome at 60: change on every one. Faster only when no string buzzes.
- 5The first songSongs with two or three open chords, capo position computed — with notation, words and sound.
- 6Reading tablatureSix lines, six strings, the number is the fret. That is how most guitar music online is written.
- 7Chord progressionsThe four chords a thousand songs are built from — and why they are the same in every key.
- 8Barre chordsWhy F is hard, and which shapes make it easier until the finger has the strength.
- 9Reading musicAnyone who wants to play more than chords will read music at some point. The start in six steps.
And then
After that a teacher helps more than any page — for posture, the hand, the sound. What is here takes the theory off their plate, not the lesson.
Anotona does this for you
Photograph a page of sheet music or play the melody — Anotona finds the key, engraves the notes and transposes them into any other. Free.
See AnotonaEvery note on this page is computed, not typed in — following the rule that also makes F# major spell its seventh degree E#, not F.