Guitar Tricks Review
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- Published By: Guitar Tricks Inc., Multiple Teachers
- Website: www.GuitarTricks.com
- Pricing: $14.95
- For Skill Levels: Beginner-Advanced
For ten years, Guitar Tricks has been offering clear, effective guitar instructional videos on line. With forty-five teachers and close to 4,000 video lessons available, Guitar Tricks is one of the largest instructional websites available for guitar. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced guitarist looking to learn or perfect a technique, you should take the time to peruse the website and check out one or more of the free videos available.
Features
Music and music styles never stop changing. This is why Guitar Tricks adds new content every month, and a number of genres are available, including jazz, classical, rock, and country. The quantity and value of the content draw an enormous following; the site now has over 10,000 members.
Support materials are offered for each lesson, including exercises, charts and illustrations, and tablature. These materials may be viewed on line or downloaded and printed. Guitar Tricks also allows you to download an entire lesson so that you can have direct access to it while practicing.
Most instructional videos are made and added by instructors who are contracted through Guitar Tricks. Some may be difficult to see or be taped at an inconvenient angle. Guitar Tricks does exercise quality control, and poorly made videos are screened out. Most videos are well thought out and show the technique from multiple angles.
New members receive the following perks:
• A downloadable video software that is compatible with the videos downloaded from the site.
• A digital version of a guitar tuner.
• An Ultimate metronome. A metronome is a time-keeping device that helps the musician become more conscious of rhythm and timing.
While Guitar Tricks allows you to download a video, it is not a course to buy and download. It is an online course which is accessed through a website. The advantage to this is that you need not download anything; it requires no storage, and it can be accessed from any computer. Because it is not a download, information can be regularly updated without sending information for members to download. This saves room on the hard-drive and allows updates to be managed digitally.
Ease Of Use
With a site so rich in material, organization is very important. Guitar Tricks’ site is well organized by guitar genre. Genres include, but are not limited, metal, bluegrass, alternative, jazz, and more. You will also find pages for theory and techniques, reference, exercises, and beginners. The beginner tab is here because Guitar Tricks recently added a series of videos geared toward the student who is starting with no knowledge of how to play. Instructors for these videos are cognizant that they are teaching beginners and will give easy, step-by-step instructions.
Guitar Tricks is a very large site, with a lot of information. It is a navigable site, but, given the wealth of information available, it is not necessarily simple. However, certain features make the site a favorite. For example, players can save lessons if they so choose, so they can revisit the lesson at a later date for the sake of practicing the technique. There are multiple resolutions available; however, dial-up consumers will probably not be able to view the videos.
Support
The usual support options are available. Possibly the most helpful means of finding answers is the option to email the video instructors themselves. If you are concerned about a specific technique you have viewed, asking the instructor giving the lesson is the most practical way of finding answers.
Warranty
A money-back guarantee is in place for the first sixty days of membership.
Price
Membership at Guitar Tricks costs $14.95 per month, and the site accepts paypal, most major credit cards, and personal checks.
Conclusion
Guitar Tricks is one of the best online video guitar lesson sites out there and they are the largest. They have a huge variety of lessons, so you’ll definitely find what you’re looking for. I recommend them highly!
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