All-round Guitar Lessons - from Absolute Beginner to Advanced

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If you're a total beginner looking to learn to play the guitar, or if you've picked up some of the basics and are looking for some lessons to take you further, then the guitar lesson courses in this section could be right for you.

For complete novices, all of the lesson courses below start at the very beginning, and lead you right through the basics, so that you can quickly start playing some tunes for yourself.

For more intermediate and advanced players, with all of the courses below, you can just skip through the more basic lessons, and just slot in to the more advanced material where appropriate.

Let's look at the guitar courses in this category:

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Until Sep 16th 2012, you can get 40% off the price of the renowned Learn & Master Guitar course. Normally $249, it's currently available for $149.

Check out our detailed Learn & Master Guitar review here, or see the Learn & Master site for more details of this time limited offer.

 

Learn & Master Guitar

Learn & Master Guitar
Our Rating
Overall: rating: 9/10
Beginners: rating: 10/10
Intermediate: rating: 8/10
Advanced: rating: 6/10
DVD Video

Learn & Master Guitar, developed by experienced guitarist and instructor Steve Krenz, is one of the most comprehensive DVD-based video guitar lesson packages around. It starts off with the absolute basics such as tuning and simple chords, but by the end of the course, gets into more advanced topics, such as soloing, improvisation, and chord substitution.

There are 20 DVDs in the package, each one covering in depth a specific topic listed in the accompanying instruction book, as well as 5 CDs with a great variety of decent jam tracks.

The quality of the material presented both on the DVDs and in the CD recordings is excellent, and one of the benefits of having the lessons on DVD, is that you can watch a particular lesson over and over again until you're happy with it...
 

Guitar Tricks

Guitar Tricks
Our Rating
Overall: rating: 9/10
Beginners: rating: 10/10
Intermediate: rating: 9/10
Advanced: rating: 9/10
Membership Site

Guitar Tricks is a well established membership site (it's been around for over 10 years), with high-quality video guitar lessons from over 45 different instructors.

There are around 3000 lessons, ranging from full courses on guitar fundamentals for beginners, through to advanced lead guitar technique lessons, covering all the major musical genres - rock, blues, metal, jazz and acoustic styles.

It also has whole courses devoted to learning to play a particular style, for example the rock level 1 & 2, and blues level 1 & 2 series of lessons.

Guitar Tricks is an excellent guitar lesson resource for all guitarists, whatever your level of ability..
 

Jamplay

Jamplay
Our Rating
Overall: rating: 8/10
Beginners: rating: 10/10
Intermediate: rating: 9/10
Advanced: rating: 9/10
Membership Site

Jamplay is a membership site, where for a monthly fee, you get access to a huge range of video guitar lessons from a number of different instructors. The lessons cover a wide range of music genres, from Rock & Metal, to Blues & Jazz.

It's good for all skill levels too, as you can just go straight to the lessons that are right for your level.

Overall, a high-quality site, with plenty of new content being added each month..
 

Jamorama

Jamorama
Our Rating
Overall: rating: 7/10
Beginners: rating: 9/10
Intermediate: rating: 8/10
Advanced: rating: 5/10
Download Lessons

Jamorama is a guitar course that provides a complete set of downloadable video and accompanying written lessons, covering all aspects of playing the guitar. It also has a number of full jam tracks that you can use for practising playing with a band.

It's very competitively priced, and is great value, given the amount of content you get..