Operators Manual for Guitar

Target Audience

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.

Starting points

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.

Content Sections:


Introduction

Why learn guitar from someone barely more than a novice himself?

Fundamentals

Start here if even if you’ve been playing a while.

Blues & pentatonics

The scales, rhythms, and theory behind a surprisingly complex form

Repertoire

The whole point is to learn some songs, isn’t it?

Exercise library

Rex’s exercise library (“rexercises”)

Last modified May 25, 2020: restructure practice stuff (d2a6324)