Online Guitar Courses - Choosing The Right Website For You

By: Wookie

When looking to teach yourself guitar, guitar lesson websites can be rather hit or miss. Most times you just don't know what you are in for. When looking for the best guitar lesson websites for you it is important to know what you want, and what the site is providing. The main things to consider are:

* Skill Level : Is this suitable for my current ability?
* Videos : Most people find it easier to learn when shown what to do. If you are going to successfully learn guitar, videos are a must
* Audio : Do you get examples of what you are learning or are you just expected to read some guitar tablature (common guitar notation) and work it out? Do you get backing tracks (music to play along to) to help you learn?
* Theory : Does this provide you with any grounding on WHY you are playing what you are playing?
* Technique : Does the package cover correct physical technique (so many courses ignore this)
* Structure : Are you thrown into the deep end and just given a bunch of links to lessons, or does the online lesson give you a structured path through their guitar courses that will help you learn faster? Just like in school, if you want to learn how to play you need a plan.
* Downloads : Are you given any downloads, such as free software or e-books?
* Personal : Sometime you need some human assistance. Do you have access to anyone directly?
* Guarantee : If it's not what you want can you get a refund?
* Cost : Think you'll find a guitar course that is any good for free? Forget it. But some are cheaper than others and will help you master guitar faster than the others.


Three of the best available are:

* JamPlay - Jamplay is making a huge impact in the online guitar lesson world. Jamplay offers a membership only website which broadcasts hi-def video guitar lessons. They have brought together guitar instruction with interactivity... even allowing you to ask questions to their video instructors. They feature 17 guitar instructors (and growing) to give you a variety of teaching methods, which is a huge advantage.

* Jamorama - The Jamorama team have developed a new version of the very popular learn guitar course that has set the standard for online and downloadable guitar courses. The new versions of the two books, Jamorama Beginners and Jamorama Advanced, are already proving to be one of the most popular guitar learning guides on the market. Jamorama has 64 new video examples and exercises. That makes 148 videos in all that perfectly compliment the five exclusive computer games and ebooks that come in the Jamorama Learning Kit.

* Elmore Music - Elmore Music's latest "Speed Learning System" consists of GuitarTips, GuitarSongs, GuitarLeads, GuitarBackingTracks as well as GuitarTheory - all in the one package! Designed to give the user the ultimate learning tool in one go - users have the option to purchase individual courses or the entire 'Speed Learning System' package deal.

Before you decide you need to be sure that the guitar website of your choice match up with what you need and what you want.

There are many websites providing guitar courses. I recommend you check out my website listed below for some more in depth reviews of the best products out there. Hopefully the this guide will help you make the right choice for you.

Chris Watson (Wookie to his friends) is a guitarist with over a decade of performing live behind him. He runs several websites for musicians and guitarists. www.wookiereviews.com/learn-guitar-reviews.html is the latest.

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