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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.

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bass playerA good deal of beginners think there’s a huge distinction between understanding to play bass guitar and regular guitar. To the naked eye or listener they’d be right saying that. The bass guitar spends most of it is time keeping time with the bass drum and following the root note progressions of the rhythm instrument in a band, but what they’d miss is what that bass player had to learn to be able to reach the point they were at.

You see most fretted instruments have a good deal in widespread as well as the bass guitar and acoustic or electric guitar have far more in common then most others. Why? Nicely due to the fact the four notes on your bass guitar are the strings 6 via 3 on a typical six string guitar. In comparison to other stringed instruments like the banjo which is tuned entirely different then a guitar in standard tuning.

One thing that all stringed instruments having a fret board have in frequent is that every fret represents on half tonal step. So for instance if you’re playing a G note on the 5th fret of the D string on your guitar, then you slid up on fret you’ll then be playing a G# which is one tonal half step about a G.

So how about the bass lessons? Are they comparable in nature to a guitar lesson?

The majority of bass players initial find out the exact same left and right hand strategies that a guitar player would learn except that most bassist pluck the strings rather then employing a choose or strumming the strings.

Scales are usually the very first factor that you’ll begin studying so you are able to comprehend the fretboard on the bass rather then chords on the guitar. Why is that? Properly because although chords are critical for rhythm on the guitar it’s a lot more critical that a bass player knows specifically where to go to play an E, G or a B so they can maintain up with their part of a song even though the guitarist is strumming.

Advanced bass lessons do utilize chords along with the like. Although the majority of pop and rock bass players don’t use chords they only play straight notes.

Overall the bass and electric or acoustic guitar are really similar. If you’re at present a guitar player and would like to understand some bass that shouldn’t be tough to do and like wise if you’re a bass player who wants to choose up some guitar.

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