The 'free lessons' section is soon to be upgraded to a much more user-friendly layout, making the navigation of lessons easier, and the lessons themselves more useful. Currently, and like a lot of other instructional sites, the lessons are somewhat scattered around in no logical order. This is soon to end! From now-on the lessons will be much more focused on achieving a point, and there will be a seperate section for exercises.

The lessons will be divided into 2 parts, essential lessons, and 'optional'/advanced lessons.

Here is the list of Essential Lessons, broken down into 3 levels - we are currently looking for people to create lessons for these topics, so please see the imminent competition for details:

Level 1 - Guitar Basics
1. Starting out, holding your guitar/pick
2. tuning the guitar
3. hand positioning
4. How to read tab
5. Power chords
6. Basic chords
7. hammer-ons and pull-offs
8. Introducing the Major scale
9. major, minor and blues scales
10. Breaking out of the box

Level 2 - Intermediate Development
1. Chromatic exercises
2. rhythm
3. practicing with a metronome / keeping time
4. Alternate Picking - The Basics
5. Pinch harmonics
6. natural harmonics
7. using your whammy bar
8. How to use vibrato
9. finding the Key
10. Building Speed
11. what is legato
12. How to Improvise
13. Arpeggios
14. Sweep Picking - The Basics
15. right-hand tapping
16. Making the most of your practice time
17. how to apply knowledge
18. Writing a good song
19. staying motivated
20. Intervals

Level 3 - Learning to Shred
1. Developing Sweep Picking
2. Using harmonies
3. Working on phrasing
4. Introducing Modes
5. developing your legato
6. developing your alternate picking
7. cool tricks
8. pedal tones
9. adding taps to sweep picking
10. What makes good Shredding different from boring Shredding?

Other Lessons
Anything non-essential or very advanced lessons will go here.

There will also be an exercises section for a whole load of things to practice (the exercises in the current 'licks' section will all go here)

More on this soon! If you have any comments or suggestions for extra topics, please email us using the contact page.