Basics
The basics you’ll use everywhere: fingers and strings, reading a chord diagram, tab or chord chart, rhythm, notes on the fretboard, intervals and the capo. Short pages to read once and keep close at hand.
The six strings
In standard tuning, from the lowest string to the highest, the guitar gives you: E, A, D, G, B, E. The strings are numbered 1 to 6 starting from the highest: string 6 is the low E, string 1 the high E.
On this site, tabs label the strings E, A, D, G, B, e (the lowercase e is the high E).
Electric guitar tone
An electric guitar doesn’t make its sound on its own: the tone is built in the amp and the pedals. Three lessons from the electric course double as reference pages: the amp and its settings, effects pedals and their order, and the looper.