Every lesson, in the order they build.
Not newest first — that would be useless. These are grouped by subject and sequenced, so you can start at the top of any group and work down.
Six steps · in order
Music theory
The rules underneath whatever you play. Works the same on any instrument.
How to read sheet music from zero
Both staves, in one sitting, with no prior reading experience assumed.
Time signatures explained without the math
What the top and bottom number really tell you to do with your hands.
What is an interval in music?
The distance between two notes — the single idea everything else is built from.
Key signatures: what those sharps mean
Why the sharps always appear in the same order, and how to name the key from them.
Chords are stacked intervals, nothing more
Triads, sevenths, inversions. Stacked intervals, nothing more mysterious than that.
What the circle of fifths is actually for
Everyone shows you the wheel. Almost nobody tells you when you would use it.
At the keyboard
Piano
Where theory is easiest to see, because the whole system runs left to right in one line.
How many keys does a piano have?
Eighty-eight, and it does not matter. What matters is the pattern of black keys.
How to read sheet music from zero
Note names, clefs, ledger lines — both staves, from nothing.
Hands, posture and finger numbers
Curved fingers, a relaxed wrist, and what the little numbers on the page mean.
Your first chords
Three-note shapes in the left hand that fit under almost any melody.
Hands together
The genuinely hard part, and the practice method that makes it tractable.
At the fretboard
Guitar
Same twelve notes, scattered across six strings. Harder to read, easier to move around.
Meet the fretboard
Six strings, twelve frets, and why the same note turns up in several places at once.
Holding it, and why your fingertips hurt
Both hands, thumb position, and which kinds of pain are normal.
How to read guitar chord diagrams
The grid is a picture of the neck. Dots, circles, crosses — five symbols total.
Your first open chords
The handful that unlock most songs, and the order to learn them in.
Strumming and rhythm
Keeping time with the right hand while the left one is still thinking.
Barre chords: why they hurt and how to fix it
It’s almost never grip strength. It’s thumb position and fret placement.
One lesson a week
Tuesdays, ten minutes, one idea
New lessons land here first, but the Tuesday email is where they get explained properly.