learn acoustic guitar with our beginner chord connectors

One of the fundamental ways you’ll learn acoustic guitar with Guitar in a Nutshell is through the way we notate and present the information to you. Beginner guitar chords and the connectors which link them are identified with red dots in all diagrams both onscreen and off (when written in our PDF course books). This helps you to not only see clearly where they are but also form a very important visual image in your minds eye so that you’ll be able to recall them as you’re playing.

We often do not strum at all during this phase of the system and instead simply flick fingers from chord to chord in order to teach your fingers what they need to remember on their own. This way you won’t ever have to ‘think’ about it again. Learning acoustic guitar is made much easier when the tutor understands how to present information to you in the right way and at the right learning speed. This is something Guitar in a Nutshell does extremely well.

Following on from simply identifying where all our beginner guitar chord connectors are located we enter into simple exercises to drill them. This next step brings you very close to being able to put everything together and will launch most students into songs. We have designed progressions (each one made of 4 chords) which utilize all the benefits chord connectors can give you. For most students who set out to learn acoustic guitar, this will be their first true experience of what it’s like to play songs and most find it very motivating.

The practice progressions will stretch you just enough and prepare your for that all important transition out of simply learning chords or strums and into the real world of playing songs on guitar. Learning how to play acoustic guitar is all about structure and making things simple. It’s only because we’ve had so many years of teaching real students that we were able to see just what really works and transferred those same principals onto video so everyone else could learn as well.

Should you wish to have a physical reference which you can print off to accompany the lessons there are professionally designed PDF course books to download. They follow the structure of what you‘re watching on the videos. The PDFs also contain audio where you can simply click to hear examples played or performed. While learning from video is without question the most effective, clearest and fastest way to learn acoustic guitar, some students find that when combined with matching printed materials the effect is even better. In fact, the PDF course books are the exact same ones our private 1-1 students would work from in their lessons.

When you notice that the style of teaching Guitar in a Nutshell employs really is helping you to achieve real progress in learning acoustic guitar try to remain focused and calm about it. Avoid rushing ahead or skipping through lessons! It’s really important you follow the beginners sequence of lessons exactly as they are delivered to you. Later as you get better you’ll have the freedom to skip around more but as you learn acoustic guitar on this beginners level, it’s important keep very true to the structure and sequence in order to gain the maximum benefit.