Online guitar lessons

You’ll feel at ease with our excellent guitar teachers if you're just starting your guitar lessons. We usually begin with some simple guitar chords, riffs and exercises.

Even as a beginner, it’s crucial to have an expert teacher guide you through the early stages, making sure you are steadily building and improving your technique. Sometimes a technique learned improperly at this stage can affect your guitar playing for years on end. We want to avoid developing any bad habits.

We begin learning songs early and can guide lessons in a direction that equips you to play some of your favorite music.

We will also set the stage of introducing ear training and music theory, topics that become important later on in your guitar playing.

Video of in-lesson demonstrations is provided after each lesson so that you can go back and have a reference for practicing specific tasks.

Intermediate guitar students often come to us having a decent handle on strumming basic chords and playing some lead guitar. For these students, we usually start with an evaluation of core skills to make sure there are no “cracks”, so to speak, that need to be addressed.

At this stage, we need to build some advanced techniques to play more complex material in various styles.

In terms of soloing and lead playing, we not only introduce advanced drills and exercises, but this is also where we start to fold in music theory to begin understanding why your favorite songs sound the way they do.

Understanding these concepts will help you whether you are looking at pop, rock, jazz, metal, country or any other styles of guitar playing.

If you’ve been doing simple strumming for a while, this is where we introduce more challenging patterns, rhythms, and chord shapes. We may also decide to explore fingerstyle or classical guitar styles.

Here we are preparing you to become fluent enough on your instrument that you can confidently play with other musicians, play for an audience, improvise, and write music on the guitar.

We offer advanced lessons for serious and experienced guitar students looking to take their skills to a professional level.

Here we are introducing advanced techniques and delving deep into music theory and ear training.

At this point, lessons may or may not be geared toward a specific style. If this is the case, you will see that some of our teachers specialize in a particular music style - jazz, classical, rock, metal, fingerstyle acoustic etc.

Often we will have a professional level shred guitarist seek instruction in jazz, or a rock guitarist seeking instruction in classical, and so on.

Even if you do not go down a particular stylistic route, all our teachers that offer advanced lessons can help you in all the areas that matter to become a great guitarist and musician.

For kids just starting out, we like to get to play some songs as soon as possible. Simple one-string melodies, simple chord strumming, sight-reading notes, etc., are all important early on.

One important thing at this stage is to take things at the pace of each student. The guitar itself is a physically demanding instrument, requiring a good deal of coordination.

Some things that may look easy to someone who doesn’t play, e.g. strumming a pop song, playing a famous rock riff, are pretty challenging. It takes a lot of time and patience to progress in the early stages of the guitar.

Having teachers with decades of playing experience is excellent even at these early stages because we can gradually correct techniques and enforce concepts and skills that will be extremely important over the long term.

Often our younger beginner guitar students start with a varied and well-rounded approach, but if you would like your child to specifically learn classical guitar, jazz guitar, or any other specific stylist approach, that is something we are more than happy to provide!

After playing and taking lessons for at least a few years, a child begins to enter the intermediate phase of guitar playing.

At this stage, we start to enforce more refinement into techniques such as picking, strumming, and many other techniques. This becomes necessary to begin playing more advanced songs on the guitar.

If we have not begun already, this is where we will often start focusing on improvisation, which is the fancy word for guitar soloing and coming up with riffs. By this point, we will be playing more complex chords like barre chords and putting them into extended progressions, which get increasingly more challenging.

We may also decide to explore that big scary topic - music theory. This explains the inner workings of why things sound the way they do - why a scale works over a chord, why a chord is called E min 7 etc.

For many students, this expands their creativity, being able not just to write songs and riffs, but also to understand why they work.

After at least five years and a lot of practice, many kids develop on the guitar to the point of entering the advanced stages of playing. We are then adding to many pre-existing topics, but the difficulty increases dramatically.

This may also be where a younger player decides to focus on a particular style. If this is the case, our guitar teachers have certain specialities displayed on their bio pages.

It may become necessary at this point to switch to a teacher on our staff that specializes in the style they are looking to delve into. The good news here is that our teachers are in constant communication, so any transition will go infinitely more smoothly than seeking out a brand new teacher at a different teaching company.

It is also at the advanced stage that young guitarists may begin preparing for auditions into regional bands or even into university music programs.