Guitar Courses by Steve Stine
Stuck playing the same few chords? Freezing up the moment you try to solo? Still lost on the fretboard? Pick the one thing holding you back and fix it. Each of these 53 courses tackles a single skill, and Steve breaks it into simple steps you can follow. Buy once, keep it for life.
Pick a course for your level
These are the courses we recommend most often. Each one links to the full course page.
Build your foundation
Break through the plateau
Play with more freedom
Learn at your own pace, one skill at a time
Step-by-step video lessons
Steve breaks each skill into short lessons you can follow along with, pause and repeat.
Practice materials
Many courses include PDF books and jam tracks, so you can practice what you learn.
Yours for life
Pay once and come back any time, on your computer, tablet or phone.
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Beginner essentials
Start here if you're new to guitar or want to fill gaps in the basics. 6 courses.
Play Guitar For Life
Steve Stine's step-by-step course: chords, strumming, theory, the blues and soloing, from your first chord to your first licks.
Play Guitar in 8 Weeks
An eight-week plan that takes you from holding the guitar to your first chords, strumming patterns, songs and barre chords.
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Chords Made Easy
Learn the essential open chords, barre chords, power chords and how to use a capo, then practice four chord progressions.
Triple Your Chords in 7 Days
Turn open chords and power chords into sus, 6, 9, 7th, 11th and 13th chords, with the theory behind them.
Barre Chords Made Easy
Turn open chords into barre chords on the 6th, 5th and 4th strings, learn the notes on the neck and use them in progressions.
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Barre Chords and Beyond
Learn what barre chords are, how to play them on the 6th, 5th and 4th strings, and how they fit the CAGED system.
Rhythm, strumming and riffs
Strumming, riffs and play-along jams. 3 courses.
Strumming Made Easy
Build your strumming hand from scratching and up strums to strumming patterns with chords and muted strings.
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Essential Riffs
Learn 37 well-known rock and metal riffs, from Led Zeppelin and AC/DC to Metallica and Iron Maiden, one riff per lesson.
Interactive Jams
Seven interactive jams in different styles and keys, from heavy rock in E minor to acoustic fingerpicking and funk.
Soloing and licks
Licks, scales and ideas for building your own solos. 11 courses.
Learn How To Solo
Build a scale, find the root notes and shape short phrases, then add bends, hammer-ons, pull-offs and simple licks.
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Guitar Solos
A step-by-step soloing course: lead techniques, phrasing, pentatonic scales, chord chasing, arpeggios and blues soloing.
Simple Guitar Licks
27 short guitar licks, each taught in its own video lesson, with a 13-page PDF book and jam tracks for practice.
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Expressive Soloing
Learn phrasing, melody, embellishments and how to develop ideas, so your solos sound more melodic.
Major Key Soloing
Learn to solo over major-key songs with dynamics, rhythm, phrasing, chord chasing and the CAGED system.
How To Play Melodic Solos
Build solos over progressions in C, E and B major using arpeggios, chord chasing, pentatonic and diatonic scales, then CAGED.
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Chord Chasing Mastery
Learn to solo over chord changes with note chasing, chord tones, arpeggios and the CAGED system, in blues and pop/rock.
Learn To Improvise Your Solos
From setup, tone and timing to bends, phrasing and soloing tactics, then jams in major, minor, blues, metal and punk.
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Rock Licks
Six rock style studies, from 80s rock to slow blues, each with a rhythm part and a full solo lesson.
Progressive Rock Licks
Learn 16 progressive rock licks, one per video lesson, to add to your own solos.
Jam Tracks
Backing tracks in eight style folders, from blues and rock to country, metal and pop, to practice your solos over.
Included in GuitarZoom PremiumBlues guitar
Blues rhythm, licks and soloing. 5 courses.
Learn To Play Blues
Groove, the 12-bar blues, 7th and 9th chords, bends and vibrato, blues scales and phrasing, with jams to put it together.
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Blues Guitar
Learn blues rhythm and lead: the 12-bar blues, turnarounds, classic riff styles, pentatonic scales, bends and licks.
Blues Soloing
Learn blues rhythm, progressions, scales and bending techniques, then solo over ten jams in different blues styles.
Blues Licks
A library of 82 blues licks grouped by technique, plus a modern blues-rock section and tips on using licks in a solo.
Creative Blues Soloing
Add color to your blues solos with the major pentatonic, the blue note, chord chasing and six licks with variations.
Acoustic guitar
Songs, picking styles and licks for acoustic players. 3 courses.
Acoustic Guitar
Learn acoustic guitar step by step: open chords, strumming, barre chords, flatpicking and fingerpicking, with real song examples.
Acoustic Picking Styles
Learn flatpicking and fingerpicking on acoustic: picking technique, slurs, alternating bass, double notes and body tapping.
36 Acoustic Licks
Country, bluegrass, blues and fingerpicking licks for acoustic guitar, plus chord embellishments and song-style ideas.
Music theory, scales and the fretboard
Theory, scales and the notes on the neck. 13 courses.
Music Theory Made Easy
From the chromatic scale and intervals to keys, chords, the circle of 5ths, extended chords and the basics of modes.
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Music Theory For Life 2.0
A 12-week course on notes, reading, scales, chords, progressions, melody, improvisation, modes and ear training.
Unlocking Music Theory
Learn the notes on the neck, modes, modal arpeggios and triads, and how to use theory in your soloing.
All About Intervals
Learn every interval from the minor 2nd to the octave on the fretboard, and how intervals build scales, modes and chords.
Essential Guitar Scales
The major scale in seven positions, minor pentatonic in five, then the blues scale, harmonic minor and a first look at modes.
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All About Scales
Learn the major scale in seven positions and the minor pentatonic in five, plus relative minor and short jams.
Exotic Guitar Scales
Learn the harmonic minor, Phrygian dominant and Hirajoshi scales, Phrygian dominant and Dorian for metal, and the blue note.
Unlocking The Fretboard Connection
Learn all five minor pentatonic positions, connect them across the neck and turn them into the major and diatonic scales.
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Fretboard Masterclass
Learn the notes on the neck, the major scale, CAGED shapes, modes and arpeggios, and how they all connect.
Fretboard Freedom
Learn pentatonic, blues, major and minor scales and modes position by position in C, then use them creatively in solos.
CAGED Made Simple 2.0
Learn the five CAGED shapes, connect them across the neck, and use them for soloing, minor chords and rhythm comping.
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Unlocking the CAGED System
Two lessons on how the CAGED system connects chord shapes across the fretboard and how to solo by following the melody.
Modes Made Easy
Six weeks from scale and chord theory to all seven modes, parallel modes, and modes heard in well-known songs.
Included in GuitarZoom PremiumTechnique and practice
Technique exercises, warm-ups and practice routines. 7 courses.
Essential Guitar Techniques
A technique library in 11 modules: chords, strumming, both hands, slides, vibrato, bends, arpeggios, harmonics and acoustic techniques.
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Create a Practice Routine
Sort your practice into four buckets, plan a 7-day routine, follow a practice path for your level and work through core exercises.
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Picking Booster
Warm-ups, finger combinations, economy and legato picking, metronome drills and bursting for building picking speed.
12 Easy Finger Exercises
Two-, three- and four-finger combination exercises with backwards and legato variations, plus a string crossing exercise.
12 Essential Techniques to Practice
Twelve short lessons on picking, warm-ups, scale positions, arpeggios and finger-picking to add to your practice.
Warm Up Routine
Stretching, pre-practice and legato warm-ups, plus 18 down and alternate picking exercises and G major scale picking.
Ultimate Practice Routine
A practice plan in four paths: core technique, learning from songs, fretboard and theory awareness, and creativity.
Ear training and learning songs
Train your ear and work out songs by listening. 2 courses.
Learn Songs By Ear
Pitch matching, rhythm, intervals, chords, progressions and song structure, then recognizing melodies and mode sounds by ear.
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Play It By Ear
Ear training for guitar: pitch, rhythm, every interval, chords, progressions, modes, song structure and melodies.
Recording, gear and tips
Recording, gear and practical advice for players. 3 courses.
Home Recording Made Easy
Set up Studio One and your audio interface, record your first song, and use guitar VSTs and online mastering.
Gear Vault
String changes, truss rod and hardware setup, reverb and delay tips, and demos of pedals, amps and the Kemper Profiler.
Six String Success
Short, practical tips on gear, strings, practice habits and mindset for newer guitar players.
What players say about Steve's courses
Guitarists from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, India, Australia and beyond.
Excellent · 4.8 out of 5 on TrustpilotRead our reviews"Steve Stine is the teacher that I have been looking for a long time."
Jimmy H.United States
"I discovered your courses. I find them great. It's a complete guitar journey and I learned something every week."
Philip M.United States
"It made the fretboard much, much simpler and easier to understand than I have imagined it to be."
Geoffrey E.United Kingdom
"I'm amazed with just how much improvement I've seen in my own guitar playing."
Don B.United States
"What I'd really say is definitely take Steve Stine's course. I think you would find it really, really beneficial."
Demetrio G.Canada
"One major problem that I had was just being lost. Steve helped me find the way."
Jared H.United States
"It's clear, precise and I can follow along really well."
Jim C.United States
"This is top class. Thank you very much. This is really good, gold standard."
Brian H.United Kingdom
"I really like Steve's systematic approach to practicing."
Kevin M.United States
"The lessons are easy to learn. You'll progress quite well. Do it."
David P.United States
"You're gonna be surprised. You're gonna learn a lot very quickly."
Timothy C.Canada
"I think the really positive thing about GuitarZoom is the structure of the lessons."
David C.United States
"Steve does it in a nice, concise way, not too fast, not too slow."
David T.United States
"The content and the video quality are both extremely awesome."
Daryll O.India
"I find that I'm playing faster and with great confidence."
Paul C.Canada
"I love the way that Steve explained things and shows how to become better."
Hans-Joachim G.Germany
"It made a difference, it was worth the money. Thank you."
Kevin W.United States
"This is absolutely one of the best classes I've ever taken."
Steve D.United States
"I'm just overjoyed to come across learning material that I've yearned for."
Andy M.Australia
"Thank you for breaking down music theory and making it so easy to learn."
Travis B.United States
"I have definitely improved and I enjoy it immensely."
Melina K.United States
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