Learn guitar: the path
Tuning, the notes on the neck, eight open shapes, changing in time, the first song — every stop a page with sound, reference and something to play along to.
You do not learn guitar by reading but by pressing down strings — yet in which order? Here is what comes first and why: every stop builds on the one before it, and none of them needs more than a few minutes a day.
The path
- 1Guitar tunerBefore every session. The tuner shows which string you are on — E A D G B E.
- 2The fretboardOpen 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.
- 4MetronomeTwo 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.
- 6Chord progressionsThe four chords a thousand songs are built from — and why they are the same in every key.
- 7Barre chordsWhy F is hard, and which shapes make it easier until the finger has the strength.
- 8How to read sheet musicThe five lines and the names of the notes — sooner or later tablature is not enough.
- 9Reading tablatureSix lines, six strings, the number is the fret. That is how most guitar music online is written.
Top to bottom, but without hurry: a stop is done when it works without thinking. Already playing? Find the place where it gets stuck.
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.