Introduction
Why learn guitar from someone barely more than a novice himself?
This course is for beginner and intermediate guitar students of a particular type: technical people with an engineer’s practical, but inquisitive nature.
If you want to learn guitar, can’t help asking “why?" constantly, and you read operator’s manuals for pleasure, then this site is for you.
The entire introduction section is nothing but background information on how this site was constructed, documentation conventions, content organization, etc. Feel free to skip this material unless you need help falling asleep.
Please jump directly to fundamentals if you just want to learn how to play.
Jump to Rex’s System if you are just looking for something to practice.
Why learn guitar from someone barely more than a novice himself?
Start here if even if you’ve been playing a while.
The scales, rhythms, and theory behind a surprisingly complex form
The whole point is to learn some songs, isn’t it?
Rex’s exercise library (“rexercises”)