Songwriting for the Curious Guitarist

Complete songwriting course for guitar.

What's Inside

Course Stats:

  • 5.5 hours on-demand video
  • 23 downloadable resources
  • Full lifetime access


Welcome to Songwriting for the Curious Guitarist! This is a complete course that will turn you into a confident & creative songwriter on your guitar. We'll start at the very beginning, assuming that you don't know anything about songwriting, and teach you how to arrange a song, choose chord changes for each part, create melodies that go with your chords (for singing or soloing), plus your own rhythms & strum patterns, and add your creative mark to your original songs.

This course is an excellent way for you to expand your patterns & formulas for song parts & arrangements, and also go deeper into the possibilities on time changes & modulations, or key changes.

Any kind of six-string guitar will work well for this course - electric, acoustic, or classical guitar.

Songwriting on the guitar is so enjoyable because there are unlimited possibilities for chords, song parts, melodies, solos, lyrics, and your own creative direction. This is why so many popular artists write their songs on the guitar.

Every lesson video in this course has a PDF attachment which are the tabs, chords, and text lessons to use as an additional resource while watching these videos. You can download, save, & print these. Be sure to get all the PDFs.


Course Requirements:

  • You only need a guitar - any kind of guitar with six strings.
  • This course is for everyone - beginner to advanced.

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner, intermediate, & advanced guitar players.
  • Guitarists wanting to write their own songs.
  • Guitarists wanting to improve their songwriting skills.
  • Anyone wanting to learn about the songwriting process.

What you'll learn:

  • Write your own songs on the guitar.
  • Arrange your songs.
  • Create chord progressions for each song part.
  • Learn what chords work well together.
  • Create great sounding melodies over your chords.
  • Write interesting strum patterns.
  • Write songs in the major, minor, & modal keys.
  • Write songs in all 12 keys.
  • Use secret songwriting tricks.


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Dan Dresnok

Hi, I’m Dan Dresnok and I'm your guitar teacher! I've been teaching guitar lessons for over 30 years. I've taught tens of thousands of students both online & in-person. I’ve worked as a performer, recording studio session guitarist, & moderator of dozens of group guitar clinics. I specialize in jazz, bluegrass, blues, rock, guitar & music theory.

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