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The Path

Learning Path

From “can't even hold the guitar” to “fingerstyle and improvising” — one clear route. Pick a direction, follow along, and watch your progress right here.

Placement · 30 sec

Where should I start?

Played for a while, then put it down? Answer a few quick questions and we'll point you straight to the lesson and matching plan you need — no slogging through from lesson one.

Question 1 of 5 · about 30 seconds

Which best describes where you're at?

First, pick a direction

Pick a Track

The lessons split into three paths, each starting from the shared basics for absolute beginners and then moving on to direction-specific skills — pick the one you most want to play and start.

基础

吉他基础

调音、识谱、开放和弦、横按、乐理与指板——先把地基打稳。

54 lessons →

弹唱

弹唱吉他

扫弦、节奏、边弹边唱——最快上手，最能自娱与表演。

30 lessons →

指弹

指弹吉他

一个人一把琴，弹出旋律＋伴奏的完整独奏。

21 lessons →

古典

古典吉他

尼龙弦、靠弦音色、读五线谱，走进古典传统与名曲。

10 lessons →

The big picture · five stages

Beginner → Master

Whichever direction you pick, the difficulty rises roughly like this. The site's 14 detailed stages roll up into these 5 big ones. The whole journey to a solid intermediate level usually takes about 1–2 years — the key isn't how long you practice each day, but whether you practice a little every day.

  1. 1

    KickstartKickstart

    1–2 weeks

    Covers Stage 0

    Milestone: Tune up, ring out your first chord, and play a snippet of a song — get an early taste of success.

  2. 2

    FoundationFoundation

    2–4 months

    Covers Stages 1–2

    Milestone: Master the common open chords, basic strumming and chord changes, and play and sing 3–5 simple songs all the way through.

    See the milestone lesson: play and sing a full song →
  3. 3

    ConsolidationConsolidation

    3–6 months

    Covers Stages 3–4

    Milestone: Land the big F barre, master several strumming patterns and the capo, and play and sing 10+ songs.

    See the milestone lesson: conquer the big F barre →
  4. 4

    IntermediateIntermediate

    6–12 months

    Covers Stages 5–7

    Milestone: Take barre chords across the fretboard, learn CAGED and the pentatonic scale, play in any key, and do simple improvising.

  5. 5

    MasteryMastery

    Ongoing

    Covers Stages 8–12

    Milestone: Specialize by interest: solo fingerstyle, improvising, arranging, even singing and songwriting — find your own voice.

    See the milestone lesson: your first full fingerstyle piece →

⚠️ The two points where people most often quit

About 90% of beginners quit within the first year. Know in advance where it gets hard and how to break through, and you can make it past.

The first month

Signs: Sore fingertips, dead strings, slow chord changes, and no visible results.

Fix: Get an early taste with the Kickstart; practice a little, often (sore fingertips pass in 2–4 weeks); aim to play songs rather than grinding on technique from day one.

The intermediate plateau

Signs: You've practiced a long time but feel like you're “not improving,” stuck playing only what you already know.

Fix: Switch to deliberate practice: isolate the hard parts and practice them slowly; record and compare to see progress; play with others and expand your theory and scales.

Learn how to practice effectively: planning · slow practice · plateaus →

Detailed stages · my progress

110 lessons total

Expand each stage to see its lessons, and mark off what you've finished.

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Stage 0 · Survival Skills

Beginner
8 lessons

Goal: Tune the guitar, read a chord diagram, and sound every string with good posture.

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Stage 1 · Play Your First Song

Elementary
5 lessons

Goal: Use Em and Am with one strum to back a short passage end to end.

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Stage 2 · More Chords & Changes

Intermediate
7 lessons

Goal: Get the common open chords down and switch between them fairly smoothly.

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Stage 3 · Strumming & Singing

Upper Intermediate
7 lessons

Goal: Learn common strumming patterns and the capo, and play-and-sing a whole song.

4

Stage 4 · Barre Chords & Music Basics

Advanced
6 lessons

Goal: Nail the full barre, read tablature, and understand common chord progressions.

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Stage 5 · Advanced Techniques

Master
5 lessons

Goal: Master the ornament techniques and start trying fingerstyle solos and learning songs by ear.

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Stage 6 · Chords & Theory, Deeper

Theory
8 lessons

Goal: Understand where chords come from, scale degrees and function, and color your backing with sevenths.

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Stage 7 · Fretboard & Scales

Fretboard
8 lessons

Goal: Connect the whole fretboard with the five scale positions and CAGED — no more being stuck in first position.

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Stage 8 · Styles & Improvisation

Styles
9 lessons

Goal: Get to know the grooves and moves of a few common styles, and improvise simply over chords.

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Stage 9 · Acoustic Fingerstyle

Fingerstyle
16 lessons

Goal: From right-hand foundations and reading two-voice notation to alternating bass, tremolo, harmonics, percussive hits and tapping; then arrange songs you can sing into fingerstyle solos, color them with altered and open tunings, and meet the master players and a beginner-to-advanced repertoire ladder.

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Stage 10 · Extras · The Practical Handbook

Handbook
12 lessons

Goal: The practical stuff beyond playing: choosing a guitar, changing strings and upkeep, practice methods, learning songs by ear, and getting to know more styles — drop in anytime.

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Stage 11 · Singing: The Other Half

Vocals
4 lessons

Goal: Fill in the other half of playing-and-singing: steady your voice with breath, sing in tune with a tuner, warm up and protect your voice, and pick the right key for your range.

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Stage 12 · Write Your Own Song

Songwriting
5 lessons

Goal: Go from playing other people's songs to writing your own — hum a melody over progressions you know, build the structure, and add rhyming words. Original songs are the freest, and the most copyright-friendly.

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Stage 13 · Intro to Classical Guitar

Classical
10 lessons

Goal: Curious about classical guitar? This side track introduces the nylon-string guitar and its sitting position, practices rest-stroke and free-stroke tone, gets you started reading staff notation, and lays out a public-domain path from studies to famous pieces — a different tone and tradition alongside folk and fingerstyle.

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