3 Amazing Guitar Courses all Beginners must Check Out

Are you ready to learn the guitar but expensive private lessons just don’t appeal to you? I don’t blame you. As someone who started taking private lessons and quickly moved to self study guitar courses I know the financial and time costs of taking private guitar lessons.

There are a lot of different guitar courses available online. Some are great, while others could stand a lot of improvement. I’ve bought and used each of the guitar courses I review and recommend on this site. So all of the information I’m providing is first hand. When I say that a particular course offers the best guitar lessons online, it is of course only my opinion, but I’m making this statement from the position of being a guitar player and knowing how a beginner will best easily learn.

Below are my current top 3 guitar courses as of March 2012. If a new course comes out and I feel it challenges one of these products I’ll be sure to purchase, use and review the course to maintain the quality of my guitar course ratings.

#1 Learn & Master Guitar	#2 Jamplay	#3 Guitar Tricks
Overall: 5/5 Features: 5/5 Quality: 5/5 Ease of Use: 5/5 Support: 5/5 Price: 4/5 What We Liked: Amazing HD quality video lessons Easy to follow lesson plan and instructor for beginners Fun Jam along practice CD’s Tons of support at the private members only forum Covers music theory and multiple playing styles (Blues, Rock Jazz) What We Didn’t Like: The Price (although you get what you pay for) For some beginners there could be too much content Publisher: Legacy Learning Systems Course Website: www.LearnandMaster.com/Guitar Best Price: $149 (40% Off Sale) Best For: Beginners, Intermediates and Kids	Overall: 5/5 Features: 5/5 Quality: 5/5 Ease of Use: 4/5 Support: 5/5 Price: 5/5 What We Liked: Lessons for all skill levels Fast loading videos in HD quality Lessons in a variety of styles (blues, metal, rock, country) Variety of practice tools (jam tracks, chord and scale library) Great support forum Multiple instructors to choose from What We Didn’t Like: Lessons must be watched on a computer Jam Tracks could be better quality Publisher: JamPlay Inc Course Website: www.JamPlay.com Best Price: $19.95 per month Best For: Beginners, Intermediates	Overall: 4/5 Features: 4/5 Quality: 4/5 Ease of Use: 5/5 Support: 5/5 Price: 5/5 What We Liked: Lessons for all skill levels Videos are very fast loading Lesson in a variety of styles (blues, rock, country) Easy to follow lesson plan Excellent private support forum Multiple instructors to choose from What We Didn’t Like: Lessons must be watch on a computer Some of the videos are bit older Publisher: Guitar Tricks Course Website: www.GuitarTricks.com Best Price: $14.95 per month (Free Trial Available) Best For: Beginners, Intermediates

Of course there are other guitar courses available online and DVD. I’ve chosen these 3 as the best online guitar lessons and dvd guitar courses based on the quality of instruction, practice and supplemental materials, support available and price.

While I recognize that Gibson’s Learn & Master Guitar is the most expensive of all three it does offer the most straight forward and easy to follow lesson plan of any guitar course I’ve used. I still reference this course frequently, especially for the theory lessons and the jam along discs included.

In contrast, you can join Jamplay.com for a full year for less then you can buy the Learn & Master Guitar course (follow this link for Jamplay coupon codes to get a 10% discount on the annual membership fee). I’ve had discussion with some beginners and while some people like the idea of the one time fee of the DVD course, I am starting to become partial to the online guitar lessons from Jamplay. I appreciate that they update their content frequently, and as I advance from a beginner to an intermediate player I have access to a lot more content covering a lot more styles then just beginner acoustic or electric guitar.

Of course at the end of the day the choice is all yours and I can only suggest what I find the best to use.