Start Playing Guitar: From basics to your first song

Overview

“In this lesson, I introduce basic music theory concepts to help you understand the fretboard, identify notes, and transpose songs. We’ll cover sharps, flats, and the musical alphabet, making music theory approachable and useful for your guitar playing journey.”

In this video lesson Michelle Joyce addresses the topic: Exploring Music Theory , which is part of the Domestika online course: Start Playing Guitar: From basics to your first song. Join Michelle Joyce and learn to play guitar. Master the basics with structured lessons on chords, rhythms, and practice routines..

Partial transcription of the video

“Two words that tend to scare beginner guitarists away are music theory. It just sounds not very exciting, right? Well, I'm not going to sit here and lie to you and say that it is because it isn't, but it can be very helpful. And it's actually pretty easy to understand. I'll walk you through it. Because this is a beginner guitar course, I'm going to keep this lesson on theory very light and teach you only what you need to know right now. There are many benefits to learning music theory, but the four main ones that I have for you as a beginner is that it helps you know where you are on the fr...”

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Course summary for: Start Playing Guitar: From basics to your first song

• Level: Beginner
• 96% positive reviews (26)
• 4556 students
• 5 units
• 15 lessons (2h 21m)
• 2 downloads

• Category

  Music & Audio

• Areas

  Music, Music Production