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Free Classical Guitar Lessons

Of course, our free classical guitar lessons for beginners are a great deal for those who want to learn to play the classical guitar just for its own sake. But did you know that learning to play the classical guitar can benefit people who want to play any style of music?

Online Classical Guitar Lessons Benefit Everyone

Classical guitar lessons, online or in-studio, are the very best foundation for any style of playing guitar. Los Angeles Guitar Academy Online’s classical guitar lessons will give you the edge over other players, even in the genres of rock, country, folk, blues, Latin, and Flamenco, because you will learn much more than just basic chords and progressions.

If you enroll in our unlimited program after you finish these free online classical guitar lessons, you will learn valuable information about intervals, chord structures, and many more advanced concepts, as well as how to read music like the pros. These essentials give you a powerful advantage in songwriting, arranging, and in performing. You will develop a powerful right-hand and left-hand technique which will supercharge your performance. When you finish the entire online classical guitar course, not only will you have developed a solid technique, but also will have developed a great classical guitar repertoire.

Free Online Classical Guitar Lessons

Why are we offering these free online classical guitar lessons? We believe that our online classical guitar instructors are among the best in the field, and we want to share their expertise with you! Our renowned instructors have designed the lesson plan so that by the time you finish these free classical guitar lessons, you will have developed some fundamental basic classical guitar techniques, that will help you avoid some of the most commonly acquired bad technical habits. Our founders started Los Angeles Guitar Academy’s online division to share the joy of playing the classical guitar with people from all over the world. We teach classical music as fine art–accessible to everyone!

Don’t wait a moment longer to begin learning the classical guitar! Let’s get started!

Click on each lesson, following the exact order in which we teach them. Only in this way can your experience the strength of our curriculum in its full integrity—just as we would if you were right with us in our Los Angeles area studios. You will make faster progress and have a more thorough comprehension of the material when you follow this exact order. Enjoy this experience on us!

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Online Classical Guitar Lessons: Why Do I Need Them?

Classical guitar lessons, online or in-studio, are the very best foundation for any style of playing that you may want to learn. Learning them from the best will give you a head start on learning to play the guitar correctly from the very beginning. Online classical guitar lessons from Los Angeles Guitar Academy are the real deal—not some haphazard collection of guitarists hawking their wares. Our world-renowned faculty designed this user-friendly curriculum to make our online lessons the next best thing to sitting beside your real-life instructor in our own Los Angeles studios. Our instructors have a mission that drives everything they do: to give you the very best musical education possible!

Classical guitar training at Los Angeles Guitar Academy Online will give you the edge over other players, even in the genres of rock, country, folk, blues, Latin, and Flamenco, because you will learn not only just beginning chords and progressions, but you will also learn valuable information about intervals, chord structure, and many more advanced techniques, as well as how to read music. This alone will give you a powerful advantage in songwriting, arranging, and in performing. When you finish the entire online classical guitar course, the fingerboard of your guitar will be as familiar to you as your own living room—perhaps more. We teach you not to be intimidated by music theory–we teach it as part of the songs you learn, so you absorb it naturally, without the boredom.

Free Classical Guitar Lesson 1: Warm-up Routine

Before You Start: An Overview We start you off on the right foot by teaching you about how to warm up before you play, good posture while…

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Free Classical Guitar Lesson 2: Sitting Position with a Footstool or a Knee Support

Start with a balanced posture. That is one of the most important ingredients in a good technique, believe it or not! You should feel comfortable,…

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Free Classical Guitar Lesson 3: Nail Preparation

We would strongly recommend that you use your fingernails when you pluck with your right hand. Using your nails will give you the clear, round, and…

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Free Classical Guitar Lesson 4: Left-hand Basics: Spider Walks

  Now it's time to start building a good foundation for your left-hand technique. This will start you off with good habits from the very…

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Free Classical Guitar Lesson 5: Right-hand Basics: The Free Stroke

  Now, let's learn some notation for your right hand. Classical guitarists use letters which are actually abbreviations for the Spanish…

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Free Classical Guitar Lesson 6: Right-hand Basics: The Rest Stroke

Now, this one sounds just like the previous clip, right? Actually,  if you listen carefully, you'll notice the stroke/plucking technique is…

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Free Classical Guitar Lesson 7: Right Hand Basics, i-m Alternation

    When you play melodic passages (sections of music in which you are playing the melody), alternate i and m as your default…

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Free Classical Guitar Lesson 8: Combining Your Left and Right Hands

Time to read some sheet music! No worries if you are a complete beginner on this, because we'll take you step by step, starting with the very basics.…

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Free Classical Guitar Lesson 9: Chromatic Drill

  Download the sheet music One of the more difficult concepts to grasp in music is that the same note may be expressed in notation as…

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Free Classical Guitar Lesson 10: Rhythm Drill on the First String

Rhythm has been called "the skeleton of music." Just as a skeleton gives shape to the human body, so rhythm gives shape to music. Now it is time to…

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Free Classical Guitar Lesson 11: Play Song

As simple as this piece might sound to you, it is an important milestone, since it is the first actual piece you will play while following along with…

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Lessons 12-85

These next lessons cover all of the first position notes on all six strings of your guitar. In these lessons, you will build your technical…

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Free Classical Guitar Lesson 86: Basic Arpeggios

"Arpeggio" is a term musicians use to describe playing the notes of a chord in a certain sequence. Arpeggios are basic musical elements that appear…

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Lessons 87-795

We, the faculty and staff of Los Angeles Guitar Academy, hope that you have enjoyed our online classical guitar lessons so far.We hope this gave you…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Adagio in G Minor – Albinoni (Guitar Transcription in D minor)

    A piece that has touched the heartstrings of listeners worldwide, this piece has a fascinating origin. A library in Dresden, Germany had…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Prelude in C Major, BWV 846 from the Well-Tempered Clavier – J.S. Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) wrote the Well-Tempered Clavier to help keyboard students master their knowledge of the keyboard, and more…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Frédéric Chopin – Waltz in A Minor No. 19, op. posthumous

One of Chopin's pieces that were not published until well after his death, the Waltz No. 19 is a favorite of pianists around the world. Finally…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Ludvig von Beethoven – Symphony No. 7, in A, Op. 92, II, Allegretto

Not a difficult piece to play, but a difficult piece to play well. You may wonder why we say that. The original, for full orchestra, has such an…

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Free Mini-Lesson: “The Waves of the Danube” – Iosif Ivanovici

In an astute business move, composer Iosif Ivanovici (1845-1902) dedicated this piece to the wife of music publisher Constin Gebauer at its print…

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Free Mini-Lesson: “O Sole Mio” – Eduardo di Capua

Another popular serenade, this song's lyrics, by Giovanni Capurro (1859-1920), compare the beloved's face to the sun, a face that could brighten even…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Kalinka

Popularized by the Red Army Choir and Russian figure skating pairs teams, this piece served as an ambassador for Russian culture during the…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Federico Moreno Torroba – Torija, from Castillos de España

{swf}/VPIII-classical-minilesson-torija/videoPlayer|480|270{/swf} Castillos de España, a suite written for the classical guitar, takes the…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Minuet – Luigi Boccherini, from the String Quartet in E, Op. 11, No. 5 (G 275)

This piece, like many from the Classical Period, is a perfect addition to a guitarist's repertoire at a formal reception or other event in which one…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – The Story of the Kalender Prince, from Scheherazade, op. 35

The Kalender Prince is the second movement of Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite, Scheherazade, based on the Book of One Thousand and One Nights.…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Träumerei, from Kinderszenen, op.15 – Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann's music provides us with a fine example of Romantic Period music. For Romantic Period composers, music had the power to lift its…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Sebastián Yradier – La Paloma

A trip to Cuba inspired this piece's Spanish composer, Sebastián Yradier (1809-1865), to write La Paloma. La Paloma is a habanera, a popular Cuban…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Johann Pachelbel – Canon in D Major

From Canon and Gigue for Three Violins and Basso Continuo (P.37, T.337, PC.358) Originally part of a larger work that included a gigue in the same…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Erik Satie – Gnossienne No. 1

Spare and haunting, unspeakably lovely, this early work from Erik Satie (1866-1925) shows his creative genius, despite the fact that he had failed to…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Theme from Swan Lake

Thanks to the award-winning film, Black Swan, the music from Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity. This piece, the…

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Free Mini-Lesson: “Funiculì, Funiculà” – Luigi Denza and Peppino Turco

Written in 1880 to celebrate the launch of a funicular cable car service taking people to the summit of Mount Vesuvius and back, "Funiculì,…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Erik Satie – Gymnopédie No. 1

The gentle elegance of this piece transports its listeners into a dreamlike state, a quiet place away from the stresses of life. As such, it makes a…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Modest Mussorgsky – “Promenade,” from Pictures at an Exhibition

Pictures at an Exhibition was a labor of love for its composer. One of Mussorgsky's closest friends, the artist Viktor Hartmann, died suddenly.…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Georges Bizet – “Habanera,” from the opera Carmen

An opéra comique with a tragic ending, Carmen has all of the ingredients for a compelling story: two handsome men, both vying for the heart of the…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Johann Sebastian Bach “Air on a G String,” from the Orchestral Suite No. 3, BWV 1068 (original key)

This stately Baroque masterpiece creates awe in its listeners for its simple elegance. The air is the second movement in Bach's Orchestral Suite No.…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Johann Sebastian Bach – Prelude for Lute, BWV 999, Guitar Transcription in D minor

Originally written for the lute in the key of C minor, this piece works well on the classical guitar. This transcription is in the key of D minor.…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Franz Schubert – Ave Maria

The ethereal sound of this holiday classic is familiar to many in the Western world. Originally a translation of a maiden's plea for divine…

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Free Mini-Lesson: Henry Purcell – “Dido’s Lament,” from the opera Dido and Aeneas

Purcell's opera, Dido and Aeneas, is set in antiquity, taking place directly after the fall of Troy. Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped with a few of his…

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