12-week beginner programYour first note to real songs, in ten levels
The Beginner Bootcamp is a full guitar education, not a playlist. 233 lessons and practice activities, 20 real songs, and an app that tells you exactly what to play today. Start for $297. Add a mentor whenever you want one.
No application, no sales call. You are in the app five minutes from now.
A course you watch is not the same as a program you practice
Most beginner courses hand you a video library and wish you luck. The Bootcamp runs inside the same practice app our advanced students use: it holds your place, puts today’s work in front of you, and brings a lesson back around right before you would have forgotten it.
One path, not a menu
Ten levels in order. You always know what comes next, and nothing unlocks before you are ready for it.
Watch, then play it back
Every lesson is filmed close enough to see the fingering, with a looper and a speed control built into the player.
Practice that counts itself
Log a session and the app tracks your streak, your minutes and where you stand. It is the quiet accountability adults need.
You never have to guess what you just heard
Every exercise carries real notation, TAB and a chord diagram, and the cursor tracks the video as it plays. Slow it down, loop four bars, switch to the overhead camera when you cannot see what the fretting hand is doing. This is not a PDF you print once and lose.
- Two camera angles
- Speed control
- Loop any section
- Chord diagrams
Ten levels, and what each one actually gives you
Level 1 starts at how to hold the instrument. Level 10 ends with barre chords in two shapes, the pentatonic across the neck, and Hotel California. Nothing in between is filler.
- When the Saints Go Marching In
- Love Me Do
- Peter Gunn
- Love on the Weekend
- Last Kiss
- My Girl
- Brain Stew
- 500 Miles
- Play That Funky Music
- Miss You
- For What It’s Worth
- Ain’t No Sunshine
- Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
- Unknown Legend
- Gravity
- Stand By Me
- Creep
- (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
- Landslide
- Hotel California
Every one of them is taught inside the level where you have just learned the technique it needs. You are never playing a song on faith.
A complete foundation, Core ready
Most beginner courses hand you a few chords and call it done. We walk you through every fundamental pillar of the instrument: technique, music theory, rhythm and timing, ear training, fretboard knowledge, improvisation, repertoire and tone. Your proficiency comes out complete rather than patchwork.
That completeness is what makes a graduate genuinely ready for what comes next. The Core Program, where guitarists at every level come to sharpen their craft, expects students who already have these foundations in place. The Bootcamp is how you arrive that way.
On your own, or with someone watching your hands
Same curriculum, same app, same songs. The difference is whether anyone sees you play. To be clear about what mentorship is here: it is not private one-on-one lessons. Those belong to the Core Program. It is video feedback on your playing, daily practice sessions and group classes.
Twelve weeks of someone in your corner
Adults do not quit guitar because the material was too hard. They quit because they could not tell whether they were doing it right, and nobody noticed when they stopped. Mentorship is built to fix both of those, specifically.
Video feedback, not a comment box
You film yourself playing the assignment. Your mentor watches it, picks up their own guitar, and films a reply showing you exactly what to change. Most students say this is the part that made the difference. It is the closest thing to sitting in the room with a teacher, and you can rewatch it at 11pm when you are actually practicing.
Daily guided practice
A live session every weekday where an instructor practices with you, on camera, in real time. You are not being lectured. You are doing the reps with someone watching your hands, which is how bad habits get caught in week two instead of month six.
Group classes at your level
Live classes built around where the group actually is that week. You hear the same question you were embarrassed to ask, answered for somebody else, and you play in front of people, which is the only way playing in front of people ever gets easier.
Someone who notices when you go quiet
A mentor who knows your name, your goals and what you were working on last week. Adults quit guitar because nobody notices they stopped. This is the part of the program that fixes that.
People who were exactly where you are
From students across Sonora’s programs, in their own words.
“My wife told me I progressed more in the six weeks of the beginner bootcamp than in months of trying it on my own.”
“I didn’t know anything about guitar, not a lot of music, when we started. That is kind of why I really wanted to get with y’all, and I am so glad I did. I am proud of my progress, for sure.”
“Before this course, I felt very stuck, and I was just doing the same things over again. Now it feels like when I have the guitar on my lap, there is an endless amount of new stuff to try.”
“You and I are working on very fundamental things, very simple things, and all the ways that it has seeped out into the rest of my playing is so cool. So much more confidence, and the ear is so much better.”
“I would recommend this to anybody that could afford it and put the time into it. In a millisecond. I was stuck. I am unstuck.”
“This app is the best way to learn how to play the guitar online that I have experienced. The progress I am making makes me want to make more progress. As something of a perpetual absolute beginner, that is exactly where I want to be.”
Start for $297. Decide about a mentor later
You do not have to know today whether you want mentorship. Buy the Bootcamp, play for a couple of weeks, and upgrade from inside the app if you want someone watching. The price is the same either way.
Beginner Bootcamp
The whole ten-level curriculum and the practice app, at your own pace. Buy it and start tonight.
- 10 levels, 233 lessons and practice activities
- 20 real songs, from Love Me Do to Hotel California
- The practice app: roadmap, tab player, streaks
- Student community
- Lifetime access to the material
You can add mentorship later from inside the app for $1,200.
Bootcamp + Mentorship
The same curriculum with a mentor watching your playing for 12 weeks. No private lessons: video feedback, daily practice sessions and group classes instead.
- Everything in the Bootcamp
- A mentor assigned to you for 12 weeks
- Unlimited video feedback on your playing
- Daily guided practice sessions, live
- Group classes pitched at your level
- Message your mentor any time
Your 12 weeks start when you do, not the day you pay.
Before you start
Still not sure? Email contact@learnwithsonora.com and a person will answer.
No. Level 1 starts at how to hold the instrument and how to tune it. If you own a guitar and can find an hour most days, you are ready.
The guitar in the corner has waited long enough
Most people who pick it back up quit inside a month, not because it is hard but because nothing tells them what to do next. This does. Ten levels, in order, starting tonight.
Questions first? Email contact@learnwithsonora.com