This is the place for anything you notice in the First Steps lessons. Skool doesn't allow comments under the videos themselves, so this thread does that job. How to make it useful: • Start with the lesson name, so I know where to look. • Good and bad both count. Small things too — a cut-off sentence, guitar louder than my voice, a fret buzz. That's exactly the stuff I can't hear myself anymore. • Sound and video are fair game, not just the teaching. When something's fixable, I'll fix it and re-upload — usually the same day — and reply here so you know it's done. Anything you'd rather not post publicly: DM me.

The tabs are currently sized for a bigger screen. If most of you are on phones, I'll look into re-rendering them bigger, like I did for E Ride.

Hey, The idea here is simple: you learn by playing, not by watching. So First Steps gets you doing exactly that. What you've got here, free: → Introduction — hold, tune, clean sound → E-Ride — your first real song, start to finish Work through those. No rush, no shortcuts. Once E-Ride feels good under your fingers, you've proven you can do this. Where it goes from there:→ Complete Path picks up with Ode to Joy, powerchords, and on through riffs you already know — Day Tripper, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Wish You Were Here. 12 lessons, each one a real song. For now — get E-Ride down. Tell me below how it's going. — Alex

I'm Alex. Berlin-based, been playing guitar for around 40 years, teaching for over 25. Trained at LAMA in Pasadena, now mostly teach beginners — privately and here. Started this community because most online guitar courses are built for people who already kind of know what they're doing. This one isn't. It's for the absolute beginner who wants to actually play songs, not just watch tutorials. If you're new here: tell me your first name, where you're roughly based, and one song you'd love to be able to play. That's it

Let's make a vote and the slot with the most votes we will do. Times are Berlin / US Eastern / US Pacific. Recording will be up afterwards for everyone who can't make it.