Almost everyone who buys a guitar quits by week two — buzzing strings, chord changes that take four seconds, and no one there to tell them that's normal. This 12-week plan turns an AI tutor into a patient practice partner sitting next to you: it listens (or hears you describe exactly what buzzes or drags), diagnoses the one thing holding a chord back, and never lets you move on until it's actually clean. A deliberately small, smart progression — fewer chords, more reps — gets you through the exact weeks that break most beginners and into playing a real song, in time, for someone else.
This is a deep digital guide: a 12-week series of ready-to-run, ~60-minute weekly sessions. You lead each session yourself — every step is scripted and timed, and every AI prompt is written for you, so no music background or prior AI experience is needed. - "Never used an AI chat assistant? Start here" — a five-minute front-matter walkthrough that gets a complete beginner from zero to ready, using any free AI assistant (no paid plan needed). - Four rescue prompts in the front matter for the moments a session goes sideways — a chord won't come clean, you're lost in the middle of a drill, you're not sure if something's "clean enough," or you just want to skip ahead. - An orientation that names the real reason people quit guitar and the one rule that beats it: never add a new chord until the ones you have change cleanly at a slow, steady tempo. - 12 weekly sessions, each with a plain-language concept explanation, a concrete worked example, a minute-by-minute session plan you can follow live, copy/paste AI-tutor prompts at every step, a "show me" checkpoint, a list of common mistakes to watch for, and practice to close the session. - A two-part capstone project: pick a real song, then polish it until you can play it live.
Adult beginners picking up the guitar for the first time — no reading music, no expensive gear, and no prior playing required. If you've tried before and stalled out on chord changes, this pack is built specifically to get you past that.
A raw chatbot will happily dump twenty chord shapes on you in one answer and let you drown. This pack ships the progression it lacks: a real 12-week path that deliberately keeps the chord vocabulary small while the reps go up, a tutor set up to diagnose the exact finger or angle that's buzzing instead of just saying "keep practicing," and checkpoints that make sure a chord or change is genuinely clean before you're allowed to move on. The result is a beginner who's still playing in week twelve, not one who quietly gave up in week two.
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