Learn How To Play the Guitar Online for Free

Most worship leaders are often guitarists or keyboardists or both...and with good reason! Knowing an instrument is useful to communicate with other musicians, understand musical concepts and incorporate them into the worship session. So I always recommend worship leaders to learn the basics of at least one musical instrument.

If you're looking for free guitar lessons for yourself or to recommend to someone else, then this post is for you. Here's an online resource offering free video lessons accompanied by instructional documents with illustrations that teach the fundamentals of playing the guitar.

The website is called Strum School. Available lessons include:

The Anatomy of the Guitar Types of Guitars The Acoustic Guitar The Nylon String Guitar The Electric Guitar Buying a Guitar Stringing Your Guitar Tuning Your Guitar Preparing to Play Guitar (posture, hand positions, holding the pick etc.) Reading the Guitar (tabs, chord diagrams) Learning Basic Chords (transitioning chords, open chords & keys) Other Types of Chords (minor chords, barre chords, power chords etc.)

The teaching content is neatly ordered in a logical flow that is easy to grasp and learn. Apart from lessons, there's also a 'vocab' section that's kind of like a dictionary defining terminology related to the guitar.

Here's StrumSchool's intro video:

 

The instructor, Brian Moran is an accomplished musician and graduate from Berklee College of Music in 1998 (B.M., magna cum laude, Professional Music).

Check it out if you want to learn the fundamentals of the guitar at your own pace. And did I mention it's all FREE?

Here's the link: http://www.strumschool.com

Your turn to share: Have you used Strum School or any other online resource to learn a musical instrument?