Where Guitar comes from — and where it lives now.
Guitar at GADD9 is built around one stubborn idea: a guitarist is someone who plays guitar, not someone who has finished a textbook. From the first lesson you'll be making music — clean open chords, a real strumming pattern, and a song you actually like — while we quietly weave in the technique that will carry you for the next decade.
The guitar's family tree reaches back at least a thousand years, through the Moorish oud brought to the Iberian peninsula and the medieval European gittern and vihuela. By the 16th century the four- and five-course Spanish guitar was already a fixture in courts and taverns; the modern six-string, nylon-strung classical guitar was standardised in the 19th century by the Spanish luthier Antonio de Torres Jurado, whose design still underlies almost every acoustic guitar built today.
