Learn guitar in order, and practice it every day.
GuitarHub teaches guitar as a path: 105 guided lessons in seven stages, each one building on the last, with free tools for the days between lessons. Start with the curriculum if you are new, run the free routine on any day you pick up the guitar, and move to the Advanced Lab when the fundamentals are under your fingers. Not sure which fits? Find your level in five questions.
Guitar curriculum · $79 lifetime access
From your first clean note to songs you can play for anyone.
105 lessons in seven stages · 30 song companions · Lifetime access $79 one time
- Stage 1Sound CheckGuitar in tune, hands in place, one clean note you can repeat.
- Stage 2Two Chords, First StudyLearn A and D, count your changes, and play an original two-chord study.
- Stage 3The Open EightEight open chords, a capo, and any three-chord song you like.
- Stage 4The First ScaleSingle notes, alternate picking, and the shape every solo starts from.
- Stage 5Barre LineThe chord that stops most players, the blues form, and your first solo.
- Stage 6Whole NeckBarre shapes everywhere, the major scale in five positions, eight bars of your own.
- Stage 7SignatureStyle, tone, and three songs you can play for anyone.
Every stage pairs written instruction with practice you can check: chord diagrams, timed change counts, studies to play through and, where a lesson has one, a microphone exercise that listens to your attempt. The 30 song companions sit beside the stages with original studies for recognizable songs. Start the first module free in GuitarHub: Guitar Lessons for iPhone, then unlock every lesson with lifetime access for $79 one time.
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The A-to-D chord routine
Seven timed blocks, 21 minutes by default, for the first chord change most players learn: tune, check A and D string by string, practice the silent anchor move, count changes starting from each chord and finish on two-chord songs. Edit any block to fit the time you have; your history stays in this browser.
Start today's routine - Free · experienced players
The Advanced Lab
23 scored drills across eight skill areas, from modes and arpeggios to bends, legato and rhythm feels. Practice mode waits for every note; Play mode scores the whole pass and tells you when to raise the tempo.
Open the Advanced Lab - Free · any goal
The 30-day plan
Name one thing you can't play yet and get four weeks of focused practice around it, with a recording on day 1 and day 30 so you can hear what changed.
Build your 30-day plan
Voice
Singing lives on Suede Sing.
The voice path, from an easy breath to a steady tone, comfortable pitch matching and your first song, is on Suede Sing, where all seven stages are free. Two pages stay here for players who started voice on GuitarHub: your saved voice takes, which this browser kept and never uploaded, and the lifetime voice practice library of studies and readings.
Learn it. Practice it. Try it through.
Written lessons give each session a focus. Where a microphone exercise is available, you can practice first and then play a measured attempt. For other lessons, you record your own assessment. A completed session records that you practiced, and a measured attempt shows what you can play. Web progress is saved in this browser. How lifetime access works