In the past I’ve always written about Learn & Master Guitar being the best guitar course out there. While I still believe in that program and it’s amazing instructor, Steve Krenz, I’ve more switched my attention to using online guitar lessons from sites like Jamplay and Guitar Tricks.
So why did I make the switch?
I’m not a beginner guitar player, while some people who start searching for online guitar lessons are beginners, personally, I wasn’t. I had taken some private guitar lessons and just needed to learn some theory before I could break out and start into more intermediate lessons. So once I had got the foundation for my theory I was able to move past a lot of the beginner stuff that was taught in Learn & Master Guitar. Then I began to feel as though I just wasn’t learning quick enough with Learn and Master, I wanted to start picking up some unique licks and tricks faster then these DVDs were teaching them. That’s when I started looking at Jamplay as an alternative.
You can see how I use Jamplay and a look at the membership area here in my Jamplay review where I’ve posted a screen capture video.
Basically I liked the way Jamplay organized all of their lesson content. It was very organized and easy to pick and choose which lessons I wanted to watch from a variety of different instructors. This allowed me to not learn so much in a straight line as it allowed me to jump around a bit from one topic to another.
Guitar Tricks, much in the same way, has all of their videos in categories. They have created a more linear approach that you should follow, but even then it’s not a must. Over all it just seems easier to using online videos if you already have the basics down.