Learn Guitar - N0TE BY NOTE

The proven NBN System helps you breakthrough barriers that are slowing your progress, replacing it with delight and measurable improvement.

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Choose Your Path

  • Classical Path — Play with Beauty & Precision

    Play your favorite classical guitar pieces without knowing theory or how to read sheet music or tabs. You will learn to play pieces from beginning to end, picking up valuable insights & techniques along the way.

    Includes pieces by Sor, Tarrega, and Bach — simplified and approachable.

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  • Acoustic Path — Play, Sing, and Tell Stories

    Learn chords, strumming, and fingerpicking from the ground up while connecting classical foundations to real-world acoustic music, developing confident rhythm and tone through clear, progressive guidance from a master teacher.

    Covers folk, pop, and singer-songwriter styles with clear strumming and picking.

    Start Acoustic Path → (Coming Soon)

  • Electric Path — Plug In & Power Up

    Build clean electric skills the right way with structured, note-by-note lessons that lead into powerful riffs, expressive lead playing, and modern styles like rock, blues, and funk. All taught with precision before adding distortion or effects.

    Explore rock, blues, and funk riffs with clean lead tone and expressive phrasing.

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Joshua Rogers

  • Licentiate Diploma in Classical Guitar Performance with Distinction

  • 30 years teaching at NZ colleges & online

  • Developer of the Essentials Primer for Beginners Guitar Course.

“I’ve learned more from Joshua in the last couple of years than I did in several decades.”

Joel Soisson, Washington, USA

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“Josh opened a new door for me.”

John Poulton, United Kingdom

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“Josh is patient, and he gives me space to be myself while always showing me the right way to play.”

Stephen Pandov, USA

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Why NBN Guitar Works

  • Learn from Joshua Rogers – an international performer with a casual and clear easy-to-follow teaching approach that will have you learning immediately.

  • NBN stands for Note-By-Note and it is a system that guides your gently through every single note in a piece using carefully structured bite-sized video lessons. No intimidating notes or numbers to read.

  • A big hurdle to learning guitar is the preconception that you need to know how to read music or tabs. That’s like saying you need to know how to read before you can speak.

    Here we get you playing by teaching you the notes, and gradually introducing you to theory and reading as we go (if you want to).

  • Built on classical technique, our system helps you to develop a solid technique that you can use to play blues, classical, rock, metal or any other genre you can think of.

  • Although reading music or tabs is not required in the NBN Guitar system they are still valuable and very useful, and so we provide them with every piece – just in case.

  • The Essentials Primer for Beginners Guitar Course was developed by Josh and is used by several schools across New Zealand – proven to get results.

    It was developed specifically to nurture new players by gently introducing them to theory, technique, and some songs.

    The course features:

    • 17 modules (broken down into smaller lessons)

    • 180 minutes of video lessons

    • Matching course book

    • Exercises & Journal

  • Learn anywhere at any time with self-paced lessons viewable on any device. Pause, rewind, slow-down (or speed up!) with your 24/7 teacher that never gets upset if you’re late.

Ready to Start Playing Guitar?

You don’t need to read music.
Just follow clear, note-by-note lessons and start making music today.

No credit card. No risk.