Learn Guitar Chords!
Guitar Chord Lessons with Jam Tracks

Want to learn guitar chords the simple way? Want to learn, not just chord fingerings, but also how chords really work on the guitar?

These guitar chord lessons will take you right from the basics through to more advanced chord playing theory. Just follow the path to guitar chord confidence, but don't rush yourself. Those who take their time end up understanding how chords work more easily than those who want to learn it all yesterday.

With clear, "over the shoulder" photos, animated diagrams, jam tracks and audio references, you'll have all the tools you need to discover the many different types of guitar chord. You'll then be ready to jam freely with a band, play many of your favourite songs and, best of all, write your own songs.

Enjoy!

Guitar Chord Basics
The absolute basics of fingering guitar chords on the fretboard. Some essential tips to ensure your chord playing is clean and clear. Take this lesson before you move on to learn guitar chords and their fingerings.

Open Position Guitar Chords
The best place to begin your chord learning journey. 4-part course that takes you through the main open position chords and their interesting variations. Some of the most loved music out there exclusively uses the chords in this course and you'll probably use them for your entire guitar playing life, simply because they sound good!

Sub lesson: Basic Chord Changing Exercises

Barre/Movable Guitar Chords
This is where you move your chord playing away from the first few frets of the guitar to completely dominating the fretboard. Get introduced to how chord voicings appear across the entire guitar neck, and how to open up your chord playing options when improvising or writing your own music.

Sub lesson: Cutting Down Chord Shapes

Sub lesson: Barre Chord Exercises

Floating Guitar Chords
This series of lessons expands on the open chord shapes from earlier, moving them up the fretboard and using open strings to create unique sounding chords. Some great ideas to be found here, so take a look and expand your chord playing options even further.

Slash Chords
This lesson introduces you to the world of chord inversions, where the bass note of a chord is not necessarily the root note. Also, we look at some simple walking bass lines to compliment our chord progressions.

Funk Guitar Chords
Teaches you those jazzy/bluesy chord voicings heard in funk, starting with the basic barre/movable chord shapes. We then move on to chord phrasing in funk, to really complement those lively grooves (to be covered in the rhythm section). Includes funk inspired jam tracks to help you experiment with different voicings.

Guitar Chord Theory
This course is for those guitarists who want to understand how chords are constructed and where they "come from". Really adds a new perspective to learning chords on the guitar, showing you how to effectively build your own chords from scratch, using the major scale as your foundation.