Tuesday 28 July 2009

How to Play Guitar - The Easier and More Affordable Way

Millions and millions of people around the globe want to learn how to play guitar but only a small percentage of these beginners are successful and can play some decent guitar riffs or songs. The rest of them are either dreaming to be a guitarist but don't want to spend energy, time and money, or learning guitar the wrong way. If you think that taking the private guitar course costs you a lot of time and money and still getting nowhere, you'd better forget about it and look somewhere else. If you searched all over the internet and learned the guitar yourself by referring to lots of guitar guidance's, tablatures, notes, scales and chords but still had no idea how to relate all of them and improvise in order to make musical sense, you'd need to stop wasting your resources too. There is always a better way to learn the guitar. You don't have to do it the hard way.

So what is the most fun, time-saving, effective, economical and easiest way to learn guitar? The professional online guitar course. You may have heard of this before but your concept about it may be wrong. It's not some low quality and free guitar lessons that you can find on the internet. It's an all-in-one, high quality, well-organized and affordable guitar course. Some of them are web-based where you can learn guitar online in front of your PC while others come with DVDs, books and CDs. Both types of courses include instructional videos, chords library, guitar tabs, jam tracks, sheet music, online guitar community forum etc. If you would like to have a metronome or tuner, a few of the courses provide free metronome and tuner softwares.

So basically, you don't have to waste your time searching for each and every item on the internet yourself; instead, you can start to learn guitar as soon as you have the access to the course. In my opinion, it's practically the same as private guitar lessons and better than guitar class where the teacher is unable to pay full attention to you because there are other students in the same class. Most guitar class only lasts for an hour so by the time the teacher gets around to showing you the lesson is over. While you can have all the attention you need in private guitar lessons, it's relatively more expensive than online guitar lessons. If you're on a tight budget, you may consider the latter as the better option.

I personally enjoy learning guitar from videos which are professionally shot, clear and have close-ups on both hands. It's just like a private lesson! I can rewind the videos as many times as I want without worrying about missing or forgetting any part of a lesson. Also, it's way cheaper than private lessons which would cost me about at least $ 30 to $ 40 per hour. If there were 4 hour lessons per month I would have to pay at least $ 120 to $ 160 per month excluding materials and registration fees. With online lessons, I can pace myself, giving myself as much or as little time as I need to complete the lesson. Another good thing is, I can learn from the comfort of my own home.

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