A free, self-guided path through technique, theory, gear, chords, and scales. No account, no gatekeeping—just pick a page and start playing.
Learn how the major scale repeats in five connected fretboard positions so you're never stuck in one small box.
Open lesson →02Lead Guitar & ScalesBuild a strict down-up picking motion that keeps your playing even, efficient, and ready for faster lead lines.
Open lesson →03Lead Guitar & ScalesLearn to bend strings accurately in tune and add expressive vibrato, two techniques that give lead playing its voice-like quality.
Open lesson →04Chords & StrummingPractice drills that shrink the gap between chord changes so your strumming never has to stop and wait for your fretting hand.
Open lesson →05Getting StartedLearn a comfortable, sustainable sitting and standing posture so your fretting and strumming hands can move freely from day one.
Open lesson →A mode is a scale built by starting a familiar scale, most often the major scale, on a different one of its own notes, which shifts the pattern of whole and half steps and changes its character. For example, starting a C major scale on its second note, D, produces the D Dorian mode, a scale with the same notes but a different tonal center and mood.
Explore the glossary →A clamp that holds down all the strings at a chosen fret, instantly raising the guitar's pitch so open-chord shapes can be played in a new key.
Read the gear guide →Use the site in any order. Follow a lesson, check a chord, compare scales, look up a term, or learn what a piece of gear actually does.
