Small, daily, and it goes somewhere.

Tuning your guitar, in one minute

A guitar that sounds wrong puts people off faster than any difficult chord. Start every session by tuning: one minute, and everything sounds better.

The six open strings, from the thickest to the thinnest: E, A, D, G, B, E. Play one, just one, let it ring, and see whether you are flat or sharp.

Always tune upwards. If the string is sharp, go below the note and come back up slowly: it holds better that way.

A new string keeps stretching for two or three days. Your guitar is not bad, that is normal — tune again before each session.

Four chords, hundreds of songs

C, G, A minor, F. In that order, or starting somewhere else in the loop: it is the chord sequence behind an unreasonable number of songs.

Four beats on each chord and you are already playing something. The secret is not playing fast, it is changing without stopping.

If the change is slow, keep the rhythm anyway: strum the open strings while the left hand gets into place. The ear forgives a chord that arrives late, never a rhythm that stops.

Start with A minor and C: two fingers move, and it is the easiest change there is.

Reading tab in two minutes

Six lines: the six strings of the guitar, the thickest at the bottom. A number on a line means "press this fret, on this string".

A 0 means an open string. Numbers stacked on top of each other are played together: that is a chord.

Tab tells you where to put your fingers, not how long to hold the note. That is why you listen to it while you read it.

Once you can read that, almost anything becomes learnable on your own — which is exactly what we want for you.

The minor pentatonic, your first scale

It is the solo scale, and it is the simplest one: five notes, a single shape, and it moves along the neck without changing fingering.

Put it at the fifth fret. Go up and down slowly, one note per beat, metronome at 60. Look for a clean sound before speed: speed arrives on its own, later.

Once the shape is under your fingers, stop playing it in order. Take three notes, make a small phrase out of them, breathe, start again. That is where it turns into music.

In the app, TrueTake listens to whether every note rings and whether you stay in time — and tells you which one buzzes.

What changes in three weeks

People ask how long it takes. Here is the honest answer: with four short practice days a week, in three weeks your chord changes stop breaking the beat, and you can play a song from start to finish without stopping.

That is the whole promise: small, daily, and it goes somewhere.

The programme goes term by term: chords and rhythm, then the pentatonic and your first solo, then styles, harmony, and your own music.