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All My 2025 Guitar Lessons in One Email!
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My friends! A new year is upon us, and before my next lesson I want to share a summary of all the lessons I made in 2025. For your convenience, I've grouped them all by category. Each lesson is linked below... enjoy! AT LONG LAST! In Spring 2025, I finally released a much-requested series on videos on guitar fundamentals. These are aimed at folks who are getting started or otherwise looking for some guidance along their guitar-playing journey. While there are more videos I plan on adding to this series, I'm proud of this initial batch! Here's what I've got so far:
MUST-HAVE CHEAT SHEETS While my weekly lessons almost always feature a members-only PDF with practice notes, I've started to create some more comprehensive "handbooks" that go deep on a particular topic or technique. Below are the topics I tackled in 2025. I have a lot more ambition to continue pulling on this thread in the new year, so after enjoying what's below — stay tuned for more!
Songs: Strum & Sing! Here's the song lessons I made in 2025 which more-or-less feature straightforward strumming. Some of these songs are more beginner-friendly than others, but they all can be tackled with basic strumming patterns — if that's what you're after.
Songs: Strum, with Lead and/or Melody These lessons are also strummed, but each one features some sort of lead guitar or melody deep dive.
Songs: Fingerstyle Fingerstyle and Travis Picking is a favorite playing style of mine, and I made plenty of lessons in 2025 using these techniques! Each of these songs, along with all those above, came in by member request.
Other Helpful Tips The following lessons don't fall into any of the categories above, but I wanted to share just the same! These range from practice tips to technique-specific deep-dives.
Here's to a great 2026! I look very much forward to continue growing my Song Notes lesson library in the new year. I have a bunch of ambitions & ideas, both for new lessons as well as considerable improvements to my website. If you have any particular requests, especially for courses or website updates, please reply to this email and let me know! And thanks again for coming along this journey with me... your support means the world. See you in next week's lesson, David Browse all my lessons at songnotes.net |
Song Notes by David Pots
Learn to play guitar with weekly video lessons & print-friendly guides! Learn your favorite songs & techniques with step-by-step tutorials that actually explain how to get from here to there.
LESSON #620Country Fingerstyle: Bass + Melody Groove! Click to watch free video lesson In today’s mini-lesson I’ll teach you a short, melodic fingerstyle groove inspired by Billy Joe Shaver’s classic Live Forever. Instead of teaching you the full song, I’ll take the core melody (heard in the intro) and show you three ways to play it using fingerstyle guitar. Each approach combines bass notes and melody, which you can play with just two fingers on your picking hand. Whether you're new to...
LESSON #619Free Fallin' by Tom Petty Click to view free video lesson » In today’s lesson I’ll teach you to play Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty, which I consider an all-timer as far as guitar songs go. Whether you're a beginner or much more far along in your journey, this song gives us plenty to have fun with. Here's what I tackle: 0:00 Lesson Overview 1:19 Campfire Version (no capo) 3:55 Fancy Chords: Capo 3 6:58 Fancy Chords: Capo 1 11:50 Strumming & Rhythm 15:34 Performance Tips 17:50...
HAPPY OPENING DAY!Learn the Iconic "Centerfield" Intro Riff Click to watch free video lesson To all the baseball fans out there... I wanted to re-share this lesson I made last spring, in case you missed it. I break down the opening riff to Centerfield by John Fogerty, with my usual step-by-step guidance. I also have a sing & strum lesson available for this song, if you want to learn to play the full song, from start to finish. Such a fun song! Step-by-step practice notes, audio practice...