Guitar course for beginners

An online course for people picking up a guitar for the first time: from posture and tuning to barre chords, whole songs and a first improvised solo. You play, and the course listens through your phone or laptop microphone — it tells you whether a chord rings, which string is muted and whether your strum lands on the metronome’s beat.

How to take the course

3 steps

Put your phone next to the guitar

About a foot and a half away, in a quiet room. Allow the microphone when the course asks.

Take the lessons in order

A lesson is 8–12 minutes: a little theory, then you play. The course counts what it hears.

Come back every day

10–15 minutes a day plus scheduled “Review” build finger memory faster than long, rare sessions.

Learn to play guitar with a course that hears every chord

Program: stages — 8, lessons — 39

Open lessons: 4 of 39. The other lessons, the exams and the certificate come with Premium.

Stage 1

Meet the guitar

Know your guitar, sit with it right, tune it by ear-and-meter, play your first notes and your first chord in time.

From here on — with Premium

Stage 2

First chords

Play Am, E, A and D cleanly, hear the difference between major and minor and fix a buzzing string yourself.

Stage 3

Chord changes and time

Count beats, keep time with the click and change chords on the beat — your first full blues.

Stage 4

Strumming and picking

Keep the strumming hand moving like a pendulum, play the basic folk strum and syncopation, finger-pick an arpeggio and play a waltz.

Stage 5

All the open chords

Add C, G, Dm, an easy F and the seventh chords, and understand which chords belong together in a key.

Stage 6

Barre chords

Play a barre without pain and without dead strings, then move one shape to get any chord.

Stage 7

Songs

Play three traditional songs from start to finish: a march, a hymn in 3/4 and a picked ballad.

Stage 8

Pentatonic and improvisation

Learn the A minor pentatonic box, play your first phrases and improvise over a blues.

Features

The course listens, not just shows

Chords, single notes, chord changes and strumming are checked by the sound of your guitar: the course names the chord it heard and the string it cannot hear.

Eight stages, 39 lessons

Tuning and first notes, Am, E, A, D, changes with a metronome, strumming and picking, C, G, Dm, seventh chords, the F and Bm barre, three songs and the pentatonic scale.

Rhythm down to milliseconds

The course measures your microphone’s delay once and then shows how much you rush or drag and how even your strumming is.

Mistakes come back on their own

A missed task returns at the end of the lesson and in “Review” after 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 days; every stage ends with an exam.

Works without a microphone too

Rhythm can be tapped on the screen, and a guitar task can be skipped and done later.

Frequently asked questions

My chord sounds right, but the course does not accept it. What should I do?

Check three things: the guitar was tuned at the start of the session (the “Tune your guitar” lesson has a built-in tuner), the phone is about a foot and a half from the guitar, and the room is quiet. Strum slowly and let the chord ring for about a second — the course listens to a window of about that length. If it says “Sounds like …”, it hears a different chord: check it string by string, and the string-by-string task will show which one is muted.

Will a classical guitar with nylon strings or an electric guitar work?

Yes. The course listens to the strings, so any six-string guitar in standard tuning works. An unplugged electric is quieter — put the phone closer, about eight inches, or plug the guitar into an amp.

Why headphones if the course listens to the microphone?

In metronome tasks the microphone also hears the clicks. The course tells them apart from the guitar by pitch, but with headphones the rhythm score is more precise and the metronome does not bother anyone. Without headphones it works too — just turn the volume down.

What is the “calibration” before a strumming task?

Between a metronome click and the moment the microphone hears your strum there is a device delay — from twenty to three hundred milliseconds. Once, the course asks you to strum with eight clicks and subtracts that delay, so “you rush by 40 ms” is about you, not about the device. On another device it calibrates again.

I am left-handed. Does the course work for me?

Yes. The course hears the sound, not the hands, so on a left-handed guitar the same tasks work. Chord charts are drawn for right-handed players — read them as a mirror image, with string 6 on the right.

Which lessons are open right away?

The first lessons of stage one: the parts of the guitar and posture, tuning, first notes and the first chord with rhythm. The rest of the program, the exams and the certificate open with a Premium account.

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Published 04 Nov 2026 Updated 05 Nov 2026 Author: The Supreme