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Guitar Tricks Review

Rating:  (Best price for Online Video Lessons) Published By: Guitar Tricks Inc. Website: www.GuitarTricks.com Price: $14.95p/month Skill Levels: Beginner-Advanced, Kids

Guitar Tricks’ online guitar courses offers video based guitar lessons through a monthly subscription service. The site boasts literally over a thousand lessons. This might seem challenging for the beginning player to navigate, but there is a plan in place. Their program consists of eight interconnected online guitar courses with detailed step by step lessons. The lessons are short and succinct, and extremely well produced.

Top Features

Beginner guitar players start with Guitar Fundamentals 1. This course introduces you to the guitar and gets you strumming through some standard chord shapes. Guitar Fundamentals 2 takes you further in your technical development, introducing scales, song form, and note-reading. In this section you also round out your knowledge of open chords and begin to use barre chords. Once you’ve completed these two basic online guitar courses you can continue on with the Guitar Tricks program to learn three major styles: Blues, Rock and Country. These lessons continue to build your understanding of music and the guitar, while diving a little deeper into how to play these great styles.

We always like to see some sort of support system like its community messaging system and online forum in internet courses, and Guitar Tricks has this in spades.

These resources provide you insight to your progress simply by reading about other students’ questions and comments. They’re also a great resource for learning about the styles of music and the players that are of interest to other guitar students.

Skill Level

Beginner – Advanced

Absolute beginners as well as intermediate players will find Guitar Trick's core program an excellent way to build their skills and knowledge. Intermediate players and more advanced players may wish to gloss the Fundamentals and move quickly to the Country or Blues sections.

Format

The online guitar courses format is provided in short video lessons. The lessons are complemented with text and diagrams based on the material presented by the instructors.

Genres

The core learning system is for pop guitar styles of Blues, Rock, and Country. Once you finish Guitar Tricks' program, you are not done. You can build your repertoire of songs and explore other styles with their seemingly endless supply of video lessons. These lessons are organized into shorter groups or single videos, and the variety is truly amazing. You can navigate through these online guitar courses via four main topics and can choose to study an artist's style, or a particular song. You can also study a particular technique, or simply choose to focus on a particular style.

Guitar Type

Guitar Tricks’ core learning system is suitable for both electric and acoustic guitar players. Once you begin to specialize in your favorite style you may find that a particular guitar may be more suitable to the lessons.

Price

Guitar Tricks has two levels of memberships: Basic and Full Access. The Basic subscription is free and gives you access to twenty-four lessons with limited access to the site's resources.

The Full Access membership is currently $14.95 per month and gives you full access to all the site's online guitar courses and resources including a community style messaging system and technical reference library.

Guarantee

Guitar Tricks offers a no-questions asked 60 day money back guarantee.

Rating

We can fully recommend Guitar Tricks’ online guitar courses and video lessons. It’s one of the largest online video guitar sites on the web and for $14.95, it’s an incredible bargain. If you want, sign up for the free lessons – you’ll get a taste for their main instructors and teaching style. Remember to visit the forum – it’s very active and full of useful information for beginning guitarists.