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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 #616Refine Your Rhythm & Never Lose the Beat! Click to watch free video lesson » If you asked me to give you one strumming lesson that’ll make the most difference your playing, it’s this one. It’s an exercise I put together over the years during my own practice – and finally I’ve made a proper lesson showing you how to do it. I’m calling it the pyramid drill – which seems fitting because of the ascend-then-descend structure, similar to what you find in many workout routines. This drill...
YOU ASKED, I LISTENED! Click to view "My Favorites" At long last! You can finally save & organize your favorite lessons over on my Song Notes website. This is a feature that's been regularly requested by members over the years, and I'm pumped to announce it's ready! HOW IT WORKS From any lesson page, click the Add to My Favorites link. For your convenience, it's always positioned just below the lesson title. That will immediately add it to your Favorites list. You can keep on learning the...
LESSON #614A Guitarist's Guide to Piano Man Click to watch free video lesson In today’s lesson I’ll teach you a guitar arrangement of Piano Man, the 1973 classic from Billy Joel. This song uses a singular chord progression for most of the song (intro, verse, chorus) — which I’ll walk you through step by step. I’ll also include a handful of practical ways to simplify some of the trickier chords, as translating piano chords to a guitar isn’t always straightforward. To the many of you who...