Most beginners believe that they need to know how to read music, understand theory, struggle through boring exercises and learn hundreds of chords to play rock guitar. NOT SO!

Guitar is the most popular instrument on the planet because it's the easiest instrument to learn how to play. And rock guitar is one of the easiest style of music to play - thousands of popular rock songs can be played with just a few strumming patterns and a cool riff or two.

Learn those few chords, strums and riffs, along with the basics of holding and tuning a guitar, and you too will be able to play hundreds of your favorite rock songs. And that's what Jump Start Rock Guitar is all about - a quick, easy, fun and interactive approach for learning how to play rock guitar.

Video Introduction

Click below for a sample video from the course.

About the Guitar Lesson Plan

Interactive Playalong Video Guitar Instruction

Jump Start Rock starts you off with a series of video lessons showing you how to tune up, hold the pick and position your hands. In your very first practice session, you'll learn your first rock riff and immediately start jamming along with the instructor in a playalong lesson with a practice rhythm track. Over the next series of lessons, you'll continue to learn new riffs and practice them in more playalongs with rhythm tracks. Next up, you'll learn rock's most useful chord- the "power chord" and how to play it all over the fretboard. Then you'll get a grip on the five most useful chords in popular rock music; the E, A, D, C and G chords. Finally, you'll learn the blues-rock scale that everyone uses to solo and improvise with (and we mean EVERYONE from Hendrix to Van Halen to Stevie Ray Vaughn!). Get a handle on these guitar lessons and you'll know enough to be dangerous - and that's a good thing!

TrueFire's interactive video software accelerates the learning process with handy controls like zooming, looping, tab, notation, Power Tab files, integrated tuner, metronome, rhythm tracks and direct links to the TrueFire forum and Support Center.

About Your Instructor

Jeff Scheetz

Jeff Scheetz is a prolific songwriter, renown performing artist, master educator and monster guitarist with eight CDs, six TrueFire courses and numerous publications to his credit. Jeff's music can be heard on Toyota and Chevy commercials, TV Shows and one of his songs, "Lakota" was a finalist in the John Lennon songwriting contest. His band's latest CD, "Behind the Mask" was selected as one of JPF Awards' Top 10 Rock Albums - out of 42,000 entries!

Jeff has a passion for guitar education and has been teaching beginners and seasoned professionals alike for over 25 years. He's authored instructional books and dozens of articles and has also taught classes on various aspects of the music business.

About the Series

Get Up and Running Without Tedious Theory

TrueFire's Jump Start guitar lessons embrace an unorthodox but highly effective approach for teaching people of all ages how to play guitar. In essence, Jump Start courses skip over all of the tedious theory, boring exercises and drawn-out explanations with one end in mind - help students start playing guitar, making music and having fun as quickly and easily as possible. Once the student is up and running, they'll have the confidence and inspiration to dig deeper into the finer details and expand their knowledge base.