Comments on: Online Guitar Lessons – Cutting Through The Crap

By: Belladante@missjamshedpur

Belladante@missjamshedpur — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:31:51 +0000

It's such an exciting time to be learning new skills. Thanks for the easy encouragement, can't wait to see the results..... guitar online

By: Guitar Lessons For Beginners

Guitar Lessons For Beginners — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:52:47 +0000

Hey! This was great! I get real tired of guitar lesson sites just talking about how great online guitar lessons are! When in reality they are great if you already know how to play a few chords and your hands and fingers are used to it. Otherwise, they can be quite frustrating without hands on attention from a private instructor. Thanks for this!
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By: Julie @ Student Flutes

Julie @ Student Flutes — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:15:18 +0000

Private lessons are expensive, but I think they are more motivational than online lessons. I personally use a system called Fretlight. It’s a software program with a special guitar – it’s very cool! But I still struggle to take my lessons
.-= Julie @ Student Flutes´s last blog ..Student Flutes Online =-.

By: Brian from only4guitar

Brian from only4guitar — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:02:46 +0000

No matter what, it’s about practice and desire. If you are focused and have desire for playing guitar, you will. All it takes is PRACTICE.
You need to practice, over and over again, that’s how it’s done.
You can learn tons by watching good video lessons online. But the cost is reasonable and you get more and wider range of lessons than just with one teacher. You also have access to teachers on most of the better guitar lessons sites.
.-= Brian from only4guitar´s last blog ..Essential Facts on Left-handed Acoustic Guitar =-.

By: phil zuckerman

phil zuckerman — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:08:37 +0000

As a guitar teacher, I know that each student is different and customized lessons are required. To play guitar, even if it is just for fun, requires some degree of musical talent. That involves an ear for music, rhythm and finger dexterity not to mention the hours of practice. No teacher or book can provide these things. You have them or you don’t. A good teacher will test the student for these qualities and be up front about any limitations that the student has that would affect their ability to progress. That way, a student can have realistic goals and expectations. Many of my students are able to learn some chords and strumming patterns and join one of my student bands and have the experience of being in a rock band.
The most important thing is to find a way to play that is doable and fun. If you progress beyond that, then that is great.

By: Angele Martin

Angele Martin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:46:22 +0000

Learning guitar online involves a few processes. You need to develop coordination between your right, left hands and hearing, you need to be able to anticipate what sound you’ll make when you pluck a certain fretted note, and you need to develop a thicker skin on your fingers, so that you can fret the note. All of this takes some time. However, there are ways you can speed up the process immensely.

By: nevertoolateguitar

nevertoolateguitar — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:54:22 +0000

Thanks for the comment. Glad you like the site.

It is frustrating when you see all the big promises, but its usually not backed up by anything substantial. The stuff that actually is good is harder to find because it doesn’t have the same hype.

By: nevertoolateguitar

nevertoolateguitar — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:51:55 +0000

Thanks for the reply and links. I’ll check them out. I hadn’t heard of JamPlay.

By: nevertoolateguitar

nevertoolateguitar — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:50:16 +0000

Thanks for the links. It’s funny that you wrote essentially the same thing a couple years ago.

It’s amazing how so many of these “review sites” get away with it.

I’m starting to question even if its worth my time to check out some of these “systems” I haven’t had time to start looking into them yet. I’ll check out the one you suggested as well.

Thanks!

By: P Phillips

P Phillips — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:12:43 +0000

Justin Sandercoe is a pretty good teacher. He’s an instructor at the guitar institute in London, his site was set up to help teach kids who cannot afford lessons but have access to the Interweb (like at school). He has a really good section on transcribing worth checking out. Also, his blues lessons are good. You can buy the lessons but you can watch them for free on the Web. I ended up donating to his site and also to some of his charitable concerns. Very good site.

Cheers!