Pick up the guitar.
Find your sound.
From your first chord to your first stage. We teach acoustic, electric, fingerstyle, and the music theory that makes it all click — at your pace, with real musicians who’ve been there.
3,200+ students learning right now
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Guitar Fundamentals for Beginners
Your first 30 days on the guitar — posture, tuning, open chords, and your first songs.
Acoustic Fingerstyle Mastery
Travis picking, classical arpeggios, and full solo arrangements on acoustic.
Electric Lead Guitar Techniques
Bends, vibrato, scales, and phrasing for expressive electric lead playing.
Music Theory for Guitarists
Theory you can actually use — intervals, scales, CAGED, and chord construction on the fretboard.
Songwriting on Guitar
Write your own songs — melody, structure, chord voicings, and lyrics.
Stage Presence & Live Performance
From bedroom guitarist to confident live performer — gigs, setlists, and stage craft.
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Music school energy. Bedroom-practice convenience.
Real Musicians
Every instructor on our roster gigs, records, or tours. They teach what they actually use on stage.
Personalized Path
Pick your style — folk, blues, indie, metal, jazz — and your roadmap is built around the players you actually want to sound like.
Live + On-Demand
Weekly small-group live classes plus a full library of on-demand lessons you can rewind as many times as it takes.
Real Feedback
Submit a recording, get a video critique back from your instructor within 48 hours. No bots, no canned responses.
How a beginner becomes a player
Four phases. No skipped steps. The same path our 3,200+ students have walked.
WEEK 1–4
Hold the guitar like you mean it
Posture, hand position, basic chord shapes, and three of the most useful strumming patterns in popular music. By week four you are already playing through full song charts.
WEEK 5–10
Hear it. Find it. Play it.
Ear training, basic music theory, the major scale, and your first real songs from start to finish. You stop guessing chords and start hearing them.
WEEK 11–18
Pick your style and go deep
Specialize: blues phrasing, fingerstyle arrangements, rock rhythm, jazz comping, indie-folk songwriting. You build vocabulary in the language you actually want to speak.
WEEK 19+
Make something of your own
Songwriting workshops, recording fundamentals, an open-mic feedback group, and a final piece you can put your name on. This is when you stop being someone learning guitar and become a guitarist.
Working musicians, not theorists
Mara Lindgren
Touring songwriter. Two studio albums. Teaches the patience and storytelling that make a folk song stick.
Devon Ortiz
Session player on three Grammy-nominated records. Teaches phrasing the way singers think about a melody.
Hiro Tanaka
YouTube fingerstyle channel with 800k subs. Teaches the technique and the patience required to play it cleanly.
Real students. Real progress.
“I’ve had three teachers over fifteen years. Mara is the first one who taught me to actually listen. I play different now.”
Sam Patel
Acoustic Foundations · 2 years in
“I picked up a guitar at 41 thinking I was already too late. Eight months later I played my first open mic. I cried. Worth every dollar.”
Joelle Alvarez
Beginner Track · 8 months in
“The video critiques are the secret weapon. Devon caught a thumb-position thing nobody else ever flagged. Game changer.”
Jess Kowalski
Electric Lead · 4 months in
Things people ask before they sign up
I have never touched a guitar. Is this for me?
Yes — most of our students are absolute beginners. The Acoustic Foundations course assumes zero prior experience. We literally start at “here is how to hold a pick.”
How much time per week do I need?
20 minutes a day, five days a week, gets you real results. The students who graduate the fastest practice short and consistent, not long and sporadic.
What guitar should I buy?
Honest answer: the cheapest one that stays in tune. We have a free buying guide with three picks under $200 that won’t fight you while you learn.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes — monthly plans are cancel-anytime, no penalty. Annual plans get a 14-day full refund window. We have a no-pressure ethos because we know guitar takes time.
Your first chord is one click away.
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