Just like every other working musician, the journey began with an insurmountable amount of hardship and life lessons. Sunil Shakya started out in Brahmastra as a substitute guitarist, then made an unforgettable name in the Thamel club scene with Plan B, and went on to rock out on the biggest stages of Nepal with Cobweb — the country's most prominent rock band of the era.
Today he is one of Nepal's most respected online guitar tutors. Nepali Guitar Tutorial has crossed 147,000 YouTube subscribers and 24 million views across roughly 500 tutorials — and it all started with one friend asking for one favour: record a chord chart for Resham Firiri so his sister could learn.
The bedroom guitarist and the stage guitarist play differently
Plan B was where he learned the trade — the same six venues every Friday and Saturday, the College Day poster spot, the lessons you only get by not stopping when the monitor mix is off, the singer is half a beat behind, and the front row is shouting requests that aren't on the setlist. The bedroom guitarist plays cleanly because the room is forgiving. The stage guitarist learns something different.
Then came Cobweb. Three years, two albums, a few hundred shows, the biggest stages he'll ever play. There's a particular kind of physical memory you build up playing a song two hundred times in front of two thousand people — your hand learns parts you didn't decide to teach it. By the end of that run he had what most working guitarists in the country had only ever read about.
Why NGT exists
"It's not just about learning songs. It's about learning them the right way."
Most chord sites optimise for traffic. Few optimise for craft. NGT was built around the second:
- Chord charts that actually line up over the syllable they belong to, on every viewport, every device.
- Tutorial commentary on every song page — why this song teaches what it teaches, not just where the chords go.
- A capo column that doesn't lie.
- A community that picks the next song through the requests board.
The teaching channel started in 2018. By 2020 it was the platform. By 2024 it was the largest Nepali-language guitar-education channel on YouTube.
What we're building here
A premium, mobile-first chord-and-lyric library and tutorial portal for Nepali guitarists. Free chord sheets, paid 1-on-1 lessons (coming soon), a journal of technique-and-story articles, and the strongest community for Nepali guitarists on the internet.
If that sounds like something you want — browse the library, request a song, or say hello.