JamPlay Overall Rating:

JamPlay.com is hitting it big in the guitar world. Their website is a membership only service which broadcasts high-definition video guitar lessons. They have brought together guitar instruction with interactivity... even allowing you to ask questions to their video instructors. They feature 4-5 guitar instructors to give you a selection in teaching styles, which is a big plus.

They teach by "lesson set" instead of just dishing out a ton of small video clips. They start with the very basics like tuning your guitar, finger placement, and basic chords, and move on to finger-picking, palm muting, hammer ons, pull offs, and many more advanced topics. This methodical approach helps the guitar student from getting overwhelmed.

The other surprise is the low fee. Their monthly rate would not even get you ten minutes with most guitar teachers.

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How to Play Guitar - Easy Guitar Lessons Rating:

Learn And Master Guitar

from Legacy Learning Systems

Product Description

Winner of the 2008 Acoustic Guitar Magazine Players' Choice Awards, two Telly Awards and an AEGIS Award for Excellence in Education, Learn & Master Guitar is widely recognized as the best home instruction course for learning guitar available anywhere. It consists of 20 professionally produced DVDs, 5 Jam-Along CDs, a 100+ page lesson book, and a free online student support site. It is the only instructional package you'll ever need on your journey toward mastery of the guitar. All you provide is the practice!

This is a huge package that contains DVDs, CDs and printed materials. Here's what you get:

DVDs

The twenty DVDs contained in Learn & Master Guitar are really the heart of this course. Each lesson is clearly man-with-guitar explained and demonstrated, so you know exactly what and how to practice. The videos were recently awarded two bronze Telly awards for excellence in the categories of Education and Use of Music.

Printed Materials

No one wants to practice along with a video all of the time! The Learn & Master Guitar workbook contains all of the songs and exercises demonstrated in the video lessons, as well as several more, so you can continue practicing at your own pace for as long as you need before moving on to the next lesson.

Jam-Along CDs

This is where the fun comes in! These five CDs allow you to "jam along" with an actual band, using the very same songs you'll be learning in your lessons. There's no better way to learn than by playing, and there's no way to play that's more fun than jamming with a band. You'll be amazed at how much more fun this makes your practice time! Your friends and family will be impressed, too, at how soon you'll be playing such amazing music!

Professional Instruction

Learn & Master Guitar gives you a rare opportunity to study from a real pro. Steve Krenz has been playing professionally for twenty years. He is not only a truly masterful player with a very impressive bio, but also an incredibly talented teacher and communicator. You won't find a better guitar instructor anywhere. And because it's from Legacy Learning Systems, the leader in in-depth video instruction, you know the training quality is of the highest caliber.

Online Community & Student Support

Once you purchase the course, you will also get access to the Student Support and Community websites. Steve Krenz, the author of Learn & Master Guitar, is online regularly, answering questions and offering encouragement, as are other students. You can also build a student profile, post recordings of your songs, track your progress, and get feedback from Steve and other students. This is a vibrant learning community with over 11,000 active users, all helping each other along as they progress through the course.

Product Research

This is one of the better guitar courses on the market. It is very complete and covers most of the fundamentals of guitar playing and music, including basic guitar instruction, ear training, reading music and tab and some guitar theory.

The material is very well produced and attractive.

The average person should do fine with this material if they are disciplined enough to follow the instructions in order. Sadly, most people are very impatient and will probably just hop over the material in a chaotic manner and end up not really mastering anything.

It would probably be best to have an actual guitar teacher available that you could check in with from time to time. However, the fact that you get access to an online support group should go a long way to helping you stay inspired and disciplined.

Overall, this is an excellent package and though more expensive than most it is worth the extra investment. As someone who has taught guitar for over 30 years, I can attest to the fact that it is much easier to get it right the first time than having to relearn it correctly later on.

You may pay a little more now to get a premium course but you will probably end up saving in the long run due to paying for lessons to fix up problems as a result of shoddy instructions.

PROs		CONs
	Very professional and complete teaching system		Premium price
	Professionally produced DVDs		It's a big course with lots of material. If you just want to goof around, get something simpler.
	Includes ear training and theory
	Jam along CDs
	User support forum

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