Courses

30 Day Beginner Challenge

Kick start your guitar learning in 30 days!

The best course for complete beginners. This course shows you everything you need to know to get started. If you need to know it we'll show you here!

7th Chords

Learn to understand 7th Chords

Learn how minor 7th, major 7th and dominant 7th chords are constructed, as well as get a deeper understanding of chord construction in general.

9th Chords

Learn to understand 9th Chords

In this course we cover major 9th, minor 9th and dominant 9th chords. We discuss the effect of adding the 9th, how it makes the chord sound, and how to use it.

Acoustic Beginners

Strumming your first chords.

Everything else you as a beginner guitar student that loves acoustic guitar. We'll take you through your first chords and how to strum and play full songs!

Acoustic Beginners

Capos, picking & percussion

In this course we move on to techniques like fingerpicking, learn a wide variety of open chords, play with a capo and create percussive effects with the guitar!

Acoustic Fingerstyle

Enter The World Of Fingerstyle

Take all the chords that you already know and turn them into something magical! In this course we build your fingerpicking technique from the ground up.

Acoustic Fingerstyle

Become the one-person-band!

This course is all about taking the basics and fundamentals of level 1, and developing some exciting new percussive techniques like "claw strumming" and "slap"!

Acoustic Fingerstyle

The final leg of our epic journey to fingerstyle greatness.

In this course you'll learn Travis picking, chord melody, groove, going beyond the basic chords and so much more. Push your fingerstyle playing to a new level!

Angus Young

Play Like The Rhythmic Lead Master!

Without a doubt, Angus Young is one of the most influential rock guitar players in history, and in this course we teach you how to play like the great man himself!

B.B.King

Blues Played by The King

If you've heard of the blues then you've heard of B.B. King. With his incredible feel, tone, bending and vibrato he truly is The King of the Blues.

Barre Chords

breaking down barre-iers!

This comprehensive course will give you the skills, understanding and, crucially, practice methods to be able to master these guitar-unlocking chords.

Beginner Gym

Beginner Guitar Gym

Practice along in real-time! You'll be walked through a beginner guitar gym session in much the same way a fitness instructor would walk you through a workout.

Beginners Bends

Time to master those bends!

Take a focussed look at the technique required to perform beautiful bends on the guitar. One of the very best ways to develop your own voice on the instrument!

Beginners Rhythm

Dan takes you on a 5 lesson interactive rhythm journey.

This course is a complete guide to rhythm, showing you how to apply the theory and decipher (or create) any groove you like! A must for beginners.

Beginners Speed Building

Break through your barriers and start playing fast

This course will give you the tools and understanding you need to build speed efficiently, and achieve the speed of the solos you're learning!

Blues Licks

Play blues licks across the entire neck!

Our aim in this challenge is to guide you through the process of taking a single blues lick, and making it work over a variety of backing tracks, in any key.

Blues Rhythm

Master your blues rhythm playing!

By the end of the course, not only will you have 5 awesome blues tracks to play along with, you’ll also have a deep understanding of the most important blues rhythms in history!

Brian May

Harmonised theatrical lead guitar

Understand Brian May's unmistakable sound. In this course we tackle his style, tone and the scales and arpeggios he uses to create his wonderful guitar parts.

Carlos Santana

Intricate and summery Latin licks

We'll show you the theory, techniques and gear behind the great man's sound, so that you can incorporate his famous Latin flair into your own lead playing.

Cory Wong

Modern Virtuoso Funk!

Take a deep dive into what makes Cory Wong's funky style work. Bring your rhythm playing to the very highest level and learn to make the groove work for you.

David Gilmour

Stadium filling classic rock sounds

This course takes an in-depth look at David Gilmour's lead playing, key theory and techniques, with full breakdowns of two solos. Perfect for all Floyd fans!

Dimebag Darrell

Learn from the original master of metal

Learn Dimebag's incredible technique, unique writing style and amazing whammy bar tricks. For any guitarist that wants to play metal, this course is a must!

Diminished Chords

Learn to understand diminished chords

During this course, we complete our collection of 7th chords by tackling the Diminished 7th and Minor 7b5 chords. We then harmonise a scale with 7th chords.

Ed Sheeran

Simple chords, beautiful songs

Learn 4 distinct styles from Ed Sheeran's playing: the slap, the chug, the flowing fingerstyle technique & the art of embellishing simple chord shapes.

Eddie Van Halen

Finger Tapping Masterclass

EVH was a true pioneer of rock finger tapping and a master of the style. We'll take you through a tapping masterclass and analyse the other techniques EVH uses.

Electric Beginners

Strumming your first chords.

This course takes you through your first chords, how to strum, how to play full songs, how to master basic theory and everything else you need as a beginner.

Electric Beginners

Powerchords & The Blues

Move into a world of distortion and electric-specific genres! We'll cover power chords, crucial in playing in any rock or punk style, and the electric blues!

Electric Beginners

The world of barre chords!

It's time to enter the challenging world of barre chords! These are the gateway to becoming an intermediate player, so we've devoted an entire course to them.

Electric Blues Essentials

Build your foundations for true blues!

Start your journey toward becoming a brilliant blues player! Dan takes you through scales and techniques used to create truly authentic blues rhythm and solos!

Electric Blues Essentials

The wonderful world of slow blues!

Learn everything you need to play awesome slow blues tracks - 12/8 time, the theory, chord shapes, lead techniques and even arpeggios to use in your soloing.

Electric Blues Essentials

Go Beyond The 12 Bar

Here we learn something extremely important: The blues is a feeling, the blues is a way of playing, it transcends far beyond the boundary of a 12 bar structure.

Electric Intermediates

The CAGED system

Our first intermediate electric course will help you expand your knowledge of chords to include all CAGED shapes across the neck, improving your versatility.

Electric Intermediates

Playing 'Hendrix Style"

We'll learn how Jimi Hendrix used CAGED chords to play lead and rhythm at the same time! We'll also check out the famous "Rock & Roll" sound of the 50s.

Eric Clapton

Intermediate Blues Rock from 'God' Himself

Take a deep dive into Clapton's time with Cream - awesome solos, rhythm tracks, theory and gain a real understanding of how Clapton did what he did on guitar!

Essential Theory

Learn The Essentials

Start here to learn essential theory with an easy to follow method that lets you understand the inner workings of music and practically apply it to the guitar.

Finger Tapping

Two hands are better than one!

If you're new to tapping this is the course for you. We build from very basics, and lesson by lesson advance the tapping finishing with an awesome tapping solo.

Freddie King

Learn to play with feel!

Freddie King is a master of every aspect of the blues, and we have lots to learn from him. If you want to give your blues more feel and sound vocal start here!

Funk Essentials

Build a funky core

Build your funk playing from scratch with 3 custom written tracks! From early James Brown-style grooves to modern Bruno Mars style funky pop and plenty more!

George Benson

Jazz meets perfect pop

During this course we focus on both George's solo and rhythm playing, including octave parts, chromatic ideas, cool jazzy scales and a ton of extension chords!

Harmony

The musical blueprint

Transform your guitar from something you practice, to something you create music with. And learn how to use it to work out songs completely by ear.

Home Studio Guide

Set up your perfect practice space

How to set up your practice space. Make sure that you want to pick up that guitar, want to play and want to practice. Without that, how can we possibly improve?

How To Learn Licks

Dan takes you through the process of properly learning a lick.

Dan takes you through the process of properly learning a lick. Once you understand it you can apply it to every single guitar lick or phrase that you learn!

Improvisation

The scale is not everything, can you solo with one note?

If you're struggling with your improvisation you don't need more scales or more theory. What you need is to strip it all back. Thomas will show you how!

Jack White & The White Stripes

How to enjoy your instrument!

This course takes simple ideas; powerchords, pentatonic scales, and basic chords, and shows you how to get the most out of them for some truly creative ideas!

Jimi Hendrix

Play like the Greatest Of All Time!

Lean all the styles Jimi Hendrix made famous! From full on fuzz-fuelled rock, to Jimi's trademark chords-with-lead style this course will show you how to do it!

Jimmy Page

Chunky Riffs & Epic Solos

Learn Jimmy Page's lead and rhythm playing, tackle the scales and theory behind his sound, and examine how he used various techniques in his songwriting!

Joe Bonamassa

Advanced blues from a modern master!

In this advanced course Dion takes you through all the theory, scales and technique Joe Bonamassa uses to create his distinctive fast runs and beautiful melodies!

John Frusciante

Red Hot guitar playing!

We're learning by taking a proper look under the hood of John's style, breaking down the theory and applying it to our custom written Frusciante tracks!

John Mayer

A multi-disciplinary test of skill

Learn to play with John Mayer's unique flair in a course that covers every facet of his playing style. Acoustic grooves, awesome blues and commanding lead!

Kurt Cobain

Come as you are, leave as Kurt Cobain

Learn Kurt Cobain's incredibly dynamic playing, rhythm that changed rock, free soloing as well as his notorious guitar tone and dark music theory concepts!

Lead Guitar Beginners

Laying the foundations

Want to play lead guitar? This course will get you started! We focus on exercises to build strength and dexterity, as well as learning the "ultimate" rock scale!

Lead Guitar Beginners

Solos, scales & improvising

Use pentatonic scales, full major and minor scales, vibrato and various lead techniques, to improve your own improvising and write your own solos!

Lead Guitar Intermediates

Getting ready to perform

Become confident playing and improvising across the entire fretboard using scales, arpeggios and mastery of the five pentatonic shapes!

Lead Guitar Intermediates

Genre Hopping & more Speed

Learn how to use vibrato properly, then learn how to riff in blues, rock, funk and indie. Improve the speed of your playing on the guitar too!

Master Your Fingers

Finger Twisting Workout!

Our guitar gym lessons are all about learning and improving together. Basic finger exercises up to arpeggios that will really develop your control as a player!

Metal Essentials

It's Time To Get Heavy

Learn all of the key concepts you need to master to get started with metal. Our focus will be dialling up your technique and focusing on metal rhythms.

Nile Rodgers

Triads, embellishments & groove.

Nile Rodgers is best known as the “hitmaker”. We learn his incredible rhythm chops, chord vocabulary and his ability to craft perfect parts for his songs.

Noel Gallagher

Master chord choice and melody

Learn from Noel Gallagher's mastery of simple, catchy melody and chord choice to take what you have, add a few choice extras, and make your playing come alive!

Octaves

No more fretboard mystery!

Using two simple shapes you can find any note on any string across the neck. A vital step in any guitarist's journey!

Open Chords

Really appreciate the beauty of open chords

In this course we take a deeper look at open chords, and in five lessons explore the theory, chord shapes and exercises you can use to unlock your creativity.

Pentatonic Mastery

Conquer the world of pentatonic scales!

If you're ready to conquer the world of pentatonic scales, don't wait - start now and let the music flow with this play along guitar gym course!

Pentatonic Theory

Learn to understand pentatonic scales

In this course we shed some light on why the pentatonic scale is so commonly used, and why it sounds so good over a variety of chord progressions!

Practical Modes Ionian

Our modal Journey starts here

When it comes to songwriting the Ionian mode is essential. We'll walk you through everything, constructing the mode and demonstrating exactly how to use it.

Rock Essentials

Your rock journey starts here!

This course will get you started with rock, from classic rock to more modern sounds, working with the rhythm and lead approach you need to be a rock player.

Rock Licks

5 essential rock licks

Learn 5 licks heavily inspired by two amazing rock guitar players, Slash and Angus Young. The licks have soul, rhythm and an immediate impact on your soloing!

Scale Harmonisation

Learn to understand scale harmonisation

Ever wonder what people mean when they say "we're playing in the key of A"? In this course we will take you through everything you need to understand it!

Slash

Become the ultimate 80s guitar hero.

There's more to Slash than the top hat! Learn how Slash helped define the rock sound of the 80s, and incorporate his songwriting techniques into your own playing.

Start Here

Make the most of your membership

Welcome to the YGA Club! This is a very short course to guide you through all the features and how to make the most of everything. Start Here!

Steve Lukather

Let's learn from the session master!

Steve Lukather is an absolute virtuoso guitar player, and in this course we will be breaking down and analysing his key techniques from his Toto days.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

A heady dose of Texas blues!

Learn SRV's quick lead playing and dynamic slow blues, as well as his rhythm and chord techniques! Perfect for deepening your understanding of blues guitar.

The 12 Songs of Christmas

Classic Songs, Classic Players

There is one month of the year, though, when it's time to take a break from the progression and have some serious Christmas fun!

The Basics

Get Off To The Perfect Start

Our Basics course will get you off to a perfect start! This is a great primer course before you move onto the beginner level courses.

The Modes

Learn to understand the modes

The modes of the major scale are a complex but essential topic for guitarists. This two-part series delves into modes, taking a detailed look at them one by one.

Tom Misch

Vocal Like Guitar Solos & Jazz Chords!

Tom Misch is hands down one of the most talented and unique guitar players of the modern-day, with his instantly recognisable brand of soul, jazz, pop and funk!

Triad Construction

Learn to understand triad construction

The term 'triad' in a musical setting simply means 3 note chord. There are many types including suspended and augmented chords, which we tackle in this course.

Unlocking Major CAGED

Master The Major CAGED System

We firmly believe that the CAGED chord system is the key to unlocking the fretboard. In this course, we will show you exactly what you need to do to achieve this!

Unlocking Minor CAGED

Master your Minor CAGED system!

Once you're comfortable with the major CAGED system this course will help you to complete your knowledge and truly understand your fretboard!