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Electric Guitar: Your First 30 Days

For absolute beginners who bought an electric but have no idea where to start

This is a 4-week hand-building course for someone who just picked up an electric guitar for the very first time. Instead of forcing chords into memory, you'll build the hands that make one clean sound, step by step. Sore fingertips are completely normal — calluses form in just a few days.

Week 1 wakes up both hands with posture, pick grip, chromatics, and alternate picking. Week 2 locks them together to play your first riff. Week 3 puts real 'rock sound' in your hands with power chords, and Week 4 pulls it all together into a finished song you record.

Just 30 minutes a day, and each one ends with a result you can check against a metronome. The goal isn't to play well — it's to not break up with your guitar. Four weeks in, you'll meet a version of yourself who can play a whole song start to finish.

Your progress

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Saying hello to your guitar — posture, pick, downpicking Left hand, first steps — one finger one fret, chromatic 1-2-3-4 Alternate picking — the round-trip of down and up Weekly integration — completing your hand with the spider chromatic

Two hands as one — sync and finger independence Crossing strings without a break — string crossing The low growl of palm muting — your first chug Week 2 complete — the E minor pentatonic riff

Power chords 101 — a brick from two fingers Moving the shape — sliding the brick sideways Palm mute + downpicking — the chug groove Week 3 complete — the palm-muted power-chord riff

Giving the rhythm a face — rests and syncopation Joining parts — from a quiet verse to a wide-open chorus A taste of pentatonic — a trailer for the next journey Graduation — the day you record your finished song

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