Guitar Fundamentals
with Rabea Massaad
Learn modern guitar properly from your very first lesson, or fill the gaps in what you taught yourself.
186 lessons · 16.5 hrs · 14 modules · Tab on 40 lessons
Getting started
Module 01 · 7 lessons · 27m
The guitar, the pick, the fretting hand, the notes on the neck, and a metronome from day one.
Chords
Module 02 · 11 lessons · 1h 3m
Power chords, major and minor chords, a first song written with them, and drop D.
Pentatonic and blues
Module 03 · 21 lessons · 1h 30m
Position 1 to position 5, the blues note in each, the major pentatonic, and the practice that joins them up.
Lead technique
Module 04 · 18 lessons · 2h 16m
Picking, bending, sliding, hammer-ons, vibrato, double stops and harmonics, each with its practice lesson.
Scales
Module 05 · 10 lessons · 59m
Major and minor, harmonic minor and Phrygian dominant, and the arpeggios inside them.
More chords
Module 06 · 19 lessons · 2h 2m
Barre, sus, 7th, octave, blues and 9th chords, CAGED, triads, the capo and drop tunings.
Rhythm and muting
Module 07 · 12 lessons · 1h 6m
The two hands that stop the noise. Palm muting for the chug, left-hand muting for everything else, and the picking patterns between.
Modes
Module 08 · 9 lessons · 41m
Dorian to Locrian, one mode at a time, each with a practice lesson.
Advanced technique
Module 09 · 8 lessons · 59m
Tapping, hybrid picking, string skipping and pick raking, then the final solo.
Tone and effects
Module 10 · 6 lessons · 44m
A pedalboard from scratch: distortion, flanger, phaser, reverb and delay.
Reggae
Module 11 · 5 lessons · 17m
A reggae tone, then chank picking and popping, each with its practice lesson.
Djent
Module 12 · 5 lessons · 33m
A djent tone, then picking, muting and accents in 5s and 7s, each with its practice lesson.
Warm-ups and advice
Module 13 · 6 lessons · 31m
Staying motivated, playing live, restringing, building energy in a song, and 2 warm-ups.
Licks and riffs
Module 14 · 49 lessons · 3h 8m
49 licks and riffs across blues, rock, funk and metal. Each one uses a technique from above.