Must See First Acoustic Guitar Lesson for Beginners

Once your guitar is in tune, we will be going over very important finger dexterity exercises needed to be better at playing your guitar. In this first guitar lesson, I really do keep things simple. I see many lessons out there that start a little too far down the road and I really wanted to make this lesson about building confidence and assuring you that you CAN do this. Guitar isn't easy, but if we break the learning down into simple step-by-step instructions, we can tackle the challenge on step at a time.

⏱First Acoustic Guitar Lesson Chapters: ⏱

0:00 - First Acoustic Guitar Lesson
0:42 - Is Your Guitar In Tune?
0:58 - Picking Hand Exercise
3:23 - Practicing The Exercise
3:48 - Making Mistakes
4:24 - Fretting Hand Exercise
5:08 - Getting to know the dots on your guitar
6:00 - The 7 Level Guitar System
6:47 - The Spider Exercise
7:24 - Two Finger Spider Exercise
9:41 - Three Finger Spider Exercise
11:18 - Spider Exercise Playthrough
14:00 - The Em Chord
16:22 - The D 6/9 Chord
17:29 - Learning How To Play "Horse With No Name"
20:01 - Easy "C" Chord
22:29 - Practicing the C Chord
23:30 - How To Have More Fun With Your Guitar

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[onlytruth]

Only left-handed players will understand how amazing it is to hear "picking hand" and "fretting hand" instead of right and left...thanks Lauren..you are an awesome teacher !!👏👍

[philwilliams]

Waiting for my guitar to be delivered. I'm 76 and feel like a child again at Christmas!

[kevinford]

Any1 watching this thinking about picking up and learning guitar, just do it, you won't regret it. I started 2 and 1/2 years ago and loving it. There are very affordable and decent guitars and amps to learn on. You can even buy used. And alot of info available on the internet to learn. Of course Lauren Bateman is one of my go to teachers. So in short, start this journey

[iamRobinV]

Lauren is genuine. One of the best teachers out there! 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🥰🥰🥰

[HelenPatterson-prin]

I am so thankful to have found your page. I’m 53 and have always wanted to learn how to play the guitar. Fear of not being very good and be laughed at held me back. Hopefully starting April 2024 the current chapter in my life will close with me being a warrior after a cancer diagnosis, surgery and months of chemo and radiation. I got my guitar a few weeks ago for my birthday and it came with a couple of group lessons. These lessons made my greatest fears that prevented me from trying seem mild. I’ve been following along albeit slowly with you and while I’m not breaking records I can play C and Em, it’s a process, and your kind delivery is so encouraging as you meet people like me where they are. I don’t want to play for anyone and my goals are really just to not regret never trying and I would like to just enjoy the journey. Thank you for your what you do. After my second paid for lesson I felt so defeated and was ready to sell the guitar. I still own it and more importantly I am utilising what you are sharing every day. Again thank you.

[gtviking]

65 here and my wife has just bought me a wonderful sounding Big Baby Taylor acoustic guitar. I’m following your great lessons with glee and sore finger tips ☺️ Many thanks Peter (UK)

[rockyhamilton]

I am not a beginner. I have been playing since I was in the U.S Army back in 1975. I played in many bands too. But I still watch ur videos and love ur teaching. I only wish this was around back in the 70's. Would of been so much better at learning guitar. Keep up ur great teaching. Rocky Hamilton, Galveston, Indiana. U go girl!!

[KC-wedg]

Just received my Martin streetmaster ooo-16 in the mail..Learning through your lessons. Thank you. Some things in life are free.

[johnsonsallah]

You are an incredibly amazing teacher. With an excellent approach and pedagogy.

[BarryWalton-eysh]

Undeniably the best guitar teacher on youtube, thank you Lauren, I am shelving my hohner special 20 harp and taking up guitar, figure I can't miss eith you as a teacher 😊👍👍

[stephenwilson]

Hi Lauren, many thanks for your tuition, you have good clear diction and you make the subject easier to understand. This is really great for old timers like me at 73. I applaud you, thanks once again.

[wouterschijf]

Hi Lauren, your name Bateman sounds Dutch, I am Dutch living in Guadeloupe, am 76 years of age, beside playing drums and Percussion I bought myself a classical guitar and want to learn playing guitar wich i did when I was very young. So iI will follow your lessons for old folks.

[mwpoppy]

You’re an excellent teacher and this was very helpful….Thanks Lauren

[paulcananthedriver]

I like your teaching soo understandable, , , I need to learn more, unfortunately I don't have my own guitar to do practical

[ralphramirez]

At 64 retired. I find myself really realizing I can actually learn to play. I've even made a ring finger I lost in my twenties. I'm no longer bored to death. Thank you your awesome awesome 👌 👏

[Cigar]

Hi Lauren. I got back into playing in Jan of 2022. I took 30 years off and I sure regret it now but surprisingly things are coming back faster than I thought considering my age 64 and now retired. I have 3 Ovation acoustics and one Gibson Les Paul. I don't sing, never played in a band and have never been on stage to play. So for me, it's just a hobby a self accomplishment issue. I enjoy it. You're the only instructor I have seen on You Tube that teaches things nice and slow from the start. I have yet to see anyone else. If I was to teach I would be just like you and making sure that people learn things correctly from the beginning. When I self taught myself in 1979 I held the pick wrong with 2 fingers and the thumb and never arched my wrist under the fret board. I have gone back to re-learn some songs that I learned from a teacher back in their 1980's. Black Bird is great and really not that hard to play. As you know you can look up one song on You Tube and you'll find 10 different ways to play it from 10 different teachers. I have seen most of your videos and watched some of them today. Your finger exercises are great and I still practice two that I learned from years ago. I quickly found last year that the better the teacher the faster they teach. They don't go over things thoroughly. They teach at their professional speed which is no good for beginners. So you'll wear out the batteries in your remote rewinding. Classical Gas is a real hand full to learn. I can't thank you enough for your teaching methods. I found you on You Tube by just clicking around. I look forward to seeing more of your videos. I love the one with putting four fingers on the G string and moving them one at a time. The ring finger as you mentioned is tough. Practice makes perfect. Thanks so much for all you do. Rick

[doctorarmani]

Another wonderful master class. What is even better is you get to learn two songs while practising with this video for a beginner.
This makes practiceing your guitar more enjoyable. Lauren continues to explain the guitar with great visuals. Maybe a few more practice chords video that includes an exercise where you’ll learn a song at the same time

[Mdkhadri]

Wow, youre a good guitar teacher. If not..the best in d world. Really. Marvelous music teacher

[haroldsanchez]

Good morning Ms. Lauren thank you so much for guiding us through our journey of guitar world
Have a blessed day 🙏🏽

[pathfinderalin]

You are amazing, God bless you, thank you for your patience, thank you for teaching us, thank you for the bottom of my heart ❤❤❤❤