Guitar Chords & Melodies: Music Lessons

Series Summary

Learning to play the guitar for the first time is one of those difficult but rewarding experiences you look back on and appreciate in retrospect. Despite the raw, sore fingertips and the drudgery of practicing daily, playing the guitar allows you to express yourself in ways that words just can’t do. Your playing ability develops with a measure of patience, instruction, natural talent, and a commitment to excellence. If you want to get good, you have to play whether you feel like it or not.

So, you’ve been consistently practicing your basic guitar techniques and you’re ready to learn more? Then it’s time to try this set of guitar lessons as the next step in your progress as a musician. In these free videos, learn the rest of the notes on the guitar, including the A and D strings, how to play the classic songs “Amazing Grace” and “Greensleeves,” how to play a C major scale, G, C, and D major guitar chords, how to read chord charts, and how to play simple chord progressions. Once you’ve mastered these lessons, you should be ready to move up to the next level in your guitar training.

See Part I of this lesson.

Video Transcript

"So in the previous segment we looked at the high E B and the G strings on our guitar. We played melodies using those we played Mary had a little Lamb and Yankee Doodle now we are going to continue on with our education to the open D string. The third string from the top and notes on that from there we will be learning Amazing Grace an old gospel tune. We'll be learning the notes on the A string and then we will be learning the traditional melody Green Sleets. From there we will look at our first chord now that we have conquered most of the notes on the open position from the high E to the A string we'll be looking at chords."