Hey everyone, After doing a few live lessons, I think some practical music theory classes could work really well. I’m not a huge music theory person — I’ve always believed theory is only really useful when you can actually apply it to your playing. But understanding a few basics can really help demystify the guitar and make everything else start to make more sense. A few lesson ideas off the top of my head: 🎵 How do you count rhythm? 🎸 How do you find notes on the fretboard? ⏱️ What is a time signature? 🔑 What does it mean when a song is “in a key”? 🎶 What’s the difference between major and minor? I’d like to build the lessons around the things you actually want to understand, rather than teaching theory for the sake of theory. So, if there’s anything about music theory that has always confused you, put your question in the comments below. No question is too basic! I’ll use your questions to put together some future live lessons. 👍

Hey everyone, This week’s second new tab is another Dolly Parton classic — 9 to 5. Released in 1980 for the film of the same name, 9 to 5 became one of Dolly’s most recognisable songs. That upbeat, bouncy melody also makes it a really fun one to play as a fingerstyle guitar arrangement. I've created Full and Easy versions, so you can choose the arrangement that best suits your current playing — or start with the Easy version and work your way up. You can watch both below: 🎸 Want the Tabs? Both versions are available inside the Fingerstyle Guitar School as PDF and Guitar Pro files. You can currently try the entire Fingerstyle Guitar School free for 7 days, giving you access to: 🎸 400+ fingerstyle tabs 📄 PDF & Guitar Pro downloads 🎵 Beginner-friendly versions to help you progress 🎓 Step-by-step fingerstyle courses 📚 PDFs from my Back to Fingerstyle Guitar live lessons and Starter Course 🆕 New tabs, exercises and lessons every week And if you're following along with my live beginner lessons, you'll find the lesson materials inside too, so you can download them and practise everything in your own time. 👉 Start your 7-day free trial here: https://www.skool.com/fingerstyleguitarschool/about Enjoy 9 to 5, and let me know which version you're learning! Jack 🎸

Hey everyone, Thanks to everyone who joined me live yesterday for Lesson 2 of the Back To Guitar Challenge! This time we worked on open chords and arpeggios – taking the basic chord shapes you probably already know and turning them into simple fingerstyle patterns. 👇 You can watch the full replay below. I’ve also added Lesson 1 to this post, so if you missed the first class, you can catch up and work through the lessons in order. 📄 Want to practise along with the PDFs? I put the music on screen during the lessons, but I’d definitely recommend practising afterwards with the PDFs in front of you. It makes it much easier to: • Work through each exercise slowly at your own pace • Stop and repeat the difficult sections • See exactly which notes and fingers you should be playing • Keep the exercises to practise again later All of the PDFs and Guitar Pro files for the Back To Guitar lessons are available inside the Fingerstyle Guitar School. You can currently join with a 7-day free trial, download the lesson materials and have a look around the full school while you’re there 👇 👉 https://www.skool.com/fingerstyleguitarschool/about Next week, we’ll continue with rhythm and famous chord progressions, making the exercises more musical and starting to use ideas from songs you’ll recognise. And one small favour: if you're enjoying these free lessons, please give the post a like and leave me a quick comment below. Even just letting me know that you're following along really helps me see whether these live classes are something you'd like me to keep doing. Have a great weekend! And any Dolly Parton fans… make sure you check back tomorrow! 👀🎸

I was mentioned on todays lesson that the open G can be played 2 ways. The G major chord only uses 3 notes GBD but it is normally played as a 6 string chord with some noted duplicated. Both of these configurations use just BBD so both are valid G chords.

Thanks @Jack Gration great lesson today Quick practice tip, click on the classroom tab, click on the magnifying glass, type in arpeggios.