The aim of this study is to prepare activity-based lesson plans for amateur guitar education to teach basic positioning and playing techniques, and to test the effectiveness of this teaching method. The research model is a single-group pretest-posttest design, and it was carried out with 5 students at the beginner level for 4 lessons of instructional process. The data obtained from performance tests were evaluated based on a 5-point Likert scale determined by three field experts, and the average success scores of the students for the relevant unit were determined. As a result of the evaluation, student achievements ranged between 87.19-100, and it was concluded that guitar education based on activity-based lesson plans was successful.