Posts Tagged ‘education’

Learning your Favorite Songs the Lazy mans Way

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Most people that know how to play the guitar can’t read music. You see it’s far easier to know how to learn to read guitar tab, and there is a wealth of access to songs on the Internet all written in guitar tab as well. Why learn how to read music when a much easier method is readily available?

Well the truth is, there’s no real reason for a recreational guitar player to learn to read music, and this has sprung a bunch of guitar lesson products that teach you how to read guitar tabs fast.

In this article I’m going to help you select online guitar lessons on reading guitar tabs that will have you playing your favorite songs in no time.

Don’t Complicate It

Many guitar lesson products are meant to replace an individual guitar instructor. While these courses contain a huge amount of information, a lot of it isn’t required if all you want to do is learn to read guitar tabs.

A digital product like Jamorama will help you with the basics if you’re a complete beginner and then work into lessons on reading guitar tabs.

Before buying any product whether it’s a dvd, digital product or online membership I suggest you take some time to read a few guitar lesson reviews. Since it’s tough to know exactly what a product is going to be like until your pay for it, you’re best line of defense from getting ripped off is reading other peoples reviews of a product.

Find all your Favorite Tunes

Once you’ve mastered the basics of how to read guitar tablature you can take your new found knowledge and start to learn your favorite songs from the radio. The best place to start is your favorite search engine. Simple do a search for the song or band name and add tab to the end. You’ll be greated with a list of hundreds of different tab sites on the net.

Save Money and Time when Learning Guitar

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

It’s a heck of a lot different teaching yourself to play guitar today then it was before the Internet came around. Where I was using a 30 page book by Hal Leonard to get started with the basics, teenagers today can buy guitar instruction dvds and have their own personal instructor at home in their living room.

In this article I want to explain the benefits of learning to play guitar from a guitar instruction dvd rather then taking conventional private guitar lessons.

Money Savings

No question, guitar lessons ain’t cheap. You’ll find it costs between $15 and $25 per lesson each week if you find someone local to teach you.Compare that with a single purchase price of one hundred to two hundred dollars for a top notch dvd guitar lesson product and over the course of a year there are some serious savings to be had.

Buying a good guitar lesson dvd course like Learn and Master the guitar will give you more then a years worth of content to learn as a beginner.

Save Time

Depending on your age determines how many commitments you have to tend to each week such as friends, family and your job.If you’re an adult then being able to take a guitar lesson on your own time makes it easier to integrate into your current day-to-day life.

It’s not easy to have to make it to a guitar lesson at the exact same time each and every week. Especially if there are kids to cart around to engagements and other social and family items to tend to.

When learning using dvd guitar lessons you can sit down and watch and learn and entire lesson when you have the time to commit, that may or may not be at the same time each week.

What to Shop For

Look for guitar lessons on dvd that are made by a reputable guitar player, and ensure that the content on the dvds will carry you through for at least a few months. Some of the programs available are just to basic and they won’t get you very far.

Also if possible look for a sample of the audio and video quality the product was filmed with.It makes no difference how good the teacher is, if the dvd is crappie you won’t learn very much.

My Journey To Learn to Play Guitar from Home

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

When I first bought my guitar the majority of my time was spent surfing around the Internet searching for videos and tutorials that were free to show me how to play guitar. When I first started learning it was an adventure I was learning everything from scratch so every new chord or technique I learned brought me closer to piecing together a full song.

How ever after a couple of months of exhausting all of the free materials available online. I realized that I was going to have to find more detailed instruction if I wanted to progress further as a guitar player.

A friend of mine had been taking private guitar lessons from a local teacher, how ever it was $20 bucks for each lesson, and there was only one less a week. The price seemed a lot to me, and quite honestly I wanted to learn fast. I had time and was eager to learn and once a week wasn’t going to cater to that.

I figured that there are probably some paid alternatives online I could look at. I started doing my research to learn more about the guitar lesson products that were out there for people like me to learn from home.

The best one I found was after reading a Learn and master guitar review. This dvd course seemed to be the top rated learn guitar course out there, and it was priced competitively for how much content it gave you.

I didn’t purchase the product right away, I kept doing some more research. I came across numerous guitar member sites, ebooks, and download courses none of which seemed to interest me as much.

No matter how many sites I read and message boards I went to it always seemed to come back to that Learn and master guitar review. I decided it was worth a try, they had a money back guarantee so if I wasn’t satisfied with the course after I got it I’d request a refund.

It took only about a week for my copy of Learn and Master guitar to get here and right out of the box I was impressed. The packaging, the practice book, everything looked very professional. I popped in the first dvd to get a look at the lessons and the video quality was awesome.

I have been using Learn and Master Guitar for several months and my guitar playing has progressed a lot. Without it I assume I’d just be playing the same handful of chords and and feeling frustrated that I just shouldn’t play guitar.