Learn to Play the Guitar Online Reviews

Is it possible to learn how to play the guitar at home, without hiring an expensive personal guitar teacher?

The answer is surprisingly Yes, but a few warnings apply.
In a nutshell, guitar courses and guitar playing software are now ubiquitous, and while some packages are amazingly effective, others are just short of being outright scams.

Caveat Emptor:

Do NOT waste your time, money and energy
on ineffective guitar courses!

The ReviewsNest team of experts, with the help of several professional guitarists of different genres, performed hands-on tests for dozens of guitar lessons courses. The test results proved that while the market is packed with worthless (or even fraudulent) products, some excellent courses exist, which enable you to master guitar basics very quickly, and then lead you to advanced or even professional levels.

Wondering whether our reviews are biased? Read our disclosure.

The five programs rated highest by our testers are thoroughly reviewed in the following web pages. This web page summarizes our findings. It provides a comparison table, followed by our conclusions and final buying tips.

Product	Learn and Master Guitar by Steve Krenz	Jamorama and Jamorama Acoustic Guitar by Ben Edwards	Guitar Scale Mastery by Craig Bassett	Learn Guitar Quick by Jeff Carson	Guitar Lessons Pro by Domenick Ginex
Our Review
Lowest Price	$249 ($219 for Original Edition) Easy payment plans available.	Jamorama Jamorama Acoustic Guitar $39.95 (soon $99.95)	$67.00	$24.95	$34.95
What You Get	● 108 page workbook ● 20 full-length DVDs, organized as 20 sessions containing countless files. ● 5 CDs containing 110 "active" jam tracks ● Numerous supplemental files online (songs, music, guitar tabs, tips and tricks) ● Members forum ● Live help line	Each version contains: ● 2 eBooks, for Beginners and Advanced ● 150 video lessons ● 26 "active" jam tracks ● Numerous audio files ● 1000s of lines of guitar tablature ● GuitearIt  software ● Jayde Musica Pro software ● Guitar Tuner Pro software ● Jamorama Metronome software ● Advanced Learning Techniques for Guitar eBook ● How to Tune your Guitar eBook ● Lifetime access to online updates Jamorama Lead Guitar option adds: ● Lead Guitar eBook ● 43 Lead Guitar video lessons ● 29 Lead Guitar Jam Tracks	3 year membership to site. Includes: ● Guitar Scale Mastery System ● Guitar Scale Activators ● Pentatonic Guitar Success eBook ● 3 year membership to online updates	● Learn Guitar Quick eBook ● 23 Audio Files ● Guitar Buying Guide eBook	● Beginner and Intermediate eBooks ● Sound clips ● Guitar Chord Dictionary eBook ● Licks and Tricks eBook ● Playing the Blues, Basics and Beyond eBook
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Children			adult assistance required
Risk: Order Security + Money Back Guarantee	Two thumbs UP! No Risk, Full money back guarantee: 60 days, No questions asked.	Two thumbs UP! No Risk, Full money back guarantee: 60 days, No questions asked.	Two Thumbs UP. No Risk, Full money back guarantee: 8 weeks, No questions asked.	Two Thumbs UP. No Risk, Full money back guarantee: 8 weeks, No questions asked.	Two Thumbs UP. No Risk, Full money back guarantee: 1 year, No questions asked, and you get to keep the eBooks.
In a Nutshell	An amazing course. Excellent book by itself may be considered best book or eBook course we tested. Amazing DVDs teach just about any thinkable subject related to guitar playing. Active jam tracks  fun, and enable practicing with real professionals. Great online content rivaling some other courses' full material. Members forum provides help from pros and fellow students. The Rolls-Royce of "Learn to play the guitar" courses. Not cheap but worth every penny.	Jamorama teaches both electric and acoustic guitar lessons, Jamorama Acoustic Guitar lessons specifically tailored for Acoustic guitar. Both are great packages composed of extremely effective eBooks, video files, audio files, active jam tracks and software. Very compre- hensive. Extremely useful, for all levels - beginner to pro. Learning and practice are enjoyable and fun. Software is very flexible. Jamorama Lead Guitar option extremely powerful for electric and lead guitar. Undoubtedly the best learn to play the guitar course we know under $100.	A refreshingly different approach to teaching guitar: Teaching performed mostly by embedding knowledge of scales. Admittedly Less compre- hensive than top two guitar courses, and contains no videos at all, but all-in-all provides very effective, high quality teaching.	A Very good learn to play the guitar online course for beginners. Based on an eBook covering beginner guitar in 10-lessons. Not nearly as effective and compre- -hensive as Learn and Master Guitar, Jamorama or even Guitar Scale Mastery, and of course no videos here either, but an excellent course at its price level.	Good learn to play the guitar online course for beginners to advanced. Not as fully featured and compre- hensive as Jamorama, but does teach well how to play the guitar, chords and tabs, and provides good insights for guitarists.
Grade	10/10 Best Guitar Lessons, Bar none	9.5/10 Acoustic: 9.6/10 Best Lower-Priced Learn to Play the Guitar course	9.1/10	8.4/10 Best Learn to Play Guitar course on Tight Budget	8.0/10
Our Review

Our tests of Learn to Play the Guitar online courses and sites laid out a very clear picture of the market. We have found some extremely effective Learn to Play the Guitar online sites, among other also-rans, bad products and scams.

You will be amazed at what an effective Learn to Play the Guitar online course can do to your guitar playing. No matter if you are a complete novice or a seasoned pro - there are a few courses out there that can really help you learn to play the guitar fast. These Effective products will:

• Teach you to play your favorite songs in a matter of hours or days.

• Continue improving your guitar playing skills, to advanced or professional levels.

• Train your ear for "play by ear" occasions, while teaching how to read tabs and sheet music.

• Offer tips & tricks for various playing situations (solo, lead guitar, band, etc.)

• Be fun.

• Offer a true money back guarantee.

However, Bad products frequently:

• Leave you playing like a novice, repeating a few chords.

• Are misguiding, and teach you bad playing habits.

• Are badly produced, difficult to use, boring.

• Take your money and practice time, leaving you feeling like a fool.

Although we hands-on tested several Learn to Play the Guitar online courses, we listed here only the five top-rated courses. This means that all Learn to Play the Guitar online courses listed above are good, and provide effective results. In addition, none of them is a scam, and you can safely buy and use any of them. However, most guitar students normally buy only one or two products, and you certainly want to put your dollars only on the Learn to Play the Guitar course that gives you the best value. That is why we have to pick our winners:

The best Learn to Play the Guitar online course we know is Learn and Master Guitar. It costs more than other programs, but you get more than you pay for and we still consider it the best deal in improvement-per-dollar terms. However, if you cannot or don't want to spend around $200 for a course, Jamorama*/Jamorama Acoustic Guitar make an excellent 2nd-best.
* Especially with Jamorama Lead Guitar option added

Learn and Master Guitar is the most comprehensive Learn to Play the Guitar course we know. With 20 full-length DVDs, an extensive book and 5 CDs full of active Jam tracks, it will lead you on your way from beginner to pro, constantly teaching you new insights, constantly improving your skills. It is the most expensive top-rated program, but no other Learn to Play the Guitar course comes close to its depth and breadth. If you take your guitar playing seriously - order this premium product. You can spread the cost to up to 4 installments, and the bulletproof money back guarantee makes sure that you just cannot lose.

Buying Tips:

1. Every 3 or 4 months, Learn and Master Guitar puts on a $100-off sale, usually for two or three days. If you want this course and are price sensitive, check their site often or sign up for their newsletter so that they will inform you when a sale happens.

2. If you can't shell out the entire price all at once, note that Learn and Master Guitar offers an easy payment plan, splitting the price to payments as low as $49 per month.

3. The course offers two versions: the Original Edition, and the Extended Edition. Our 1st place goes to the Extended Edition, and we highly recommend that you purchase it.

If you can't or don't want to shell out over $200 for Learn and Master Guitar, Jamorama or Jamorama Acoustic Guitar are the next-best course currently offered. Based on two excellent eBooks, multiple software programs and games, almost 150 video lesson files, 26 unique Jam-Tracks, numerous audio files, and additional bonus eBooks, these Learn to Play the Guitar courses are extremely flexible and fun to use. They enable you to start playing very quickly, and then lead you on from beginner to advanced and even professional level. The software's flexibility enables endless different practice sessions, while the excellent eBooks and audio files provide excellent tutoring. Beginners and even kids loved Jamorama and Jamorama Acoustic Guitar, while professionals respected them.

Probably the best measure of success is that after so many hours practicing with all Learn to Play the Guitar online courses and sites, our testers constantly kept returning to Learn and Master Guitar and beside it only to Jamorama/Jamorama Lead Guitar or Jamorama Acoustic Guitar for further practice, leaving the other programs behind.

Buying Tips:

1. If you would like to buy Jamorama or Jamorama Acoustic Guitar do it soon, as the Limited time offer of $39.95 is expected to end soon, raising the price to $99.95.

2. If you want to learn electric and lead guitar, don't miss this: when ordering Jamorama (after you click the "Order Jamorama Instant Download Version" button) you will be offered to order Jamorama Lead Guitar alongside Jamorama, for a total combined price of only $74.95 . If you are really serious about playing electric guitar, this option is almost a must have: while Jamorama is an extremely good course for teaching both electric and acoustic guitar, Jamorama Lead guitar is a more advanced, in depth course for teaching lead guitar. Its extensive eBook, 43 additional video lessons and 29 Jam Tracks give amazing insights on playing electric and lead guitar that you won't find anywhere. If this option fits you, don't forget to check the checkbox before continuing with your order.

3. Jamorama's team also offers one of the best online Singing Lessons courses around, called Singorama . We consider it extremely important for guitarists to know how to sing well, whether playing as a hobby among friends or playing professionally. Moreover - statistics show clearly that among professional guitarists, those who sing well out-earn those who do not by a significant factor. We highly recommend that you improve your singing abilities along with learning how to play the guitar. Jamorama Acoustic Guitar's order forms enable you to order Singorama at 61% discount, i.e. only $19.95, and thus if you decide to order Jamorama Acoustic Guitar we highly recommend that you order Singorama as well.

Guitar Scale Mastery is a very good beginner to slightly advanced Learn to Play the Guitar course that does not proceed to more advanced levels. It teaches the guitar by embedding a vocabulary of guitar scales in your mind. It is well produced, very comprehensive and also includes a pentatonic guitar lessons eBook to bolster the main guitar scales system. It is clearly less comprehensive than the top two courses, does not contain any videos, and costs slightly more than #2 finisher Jamorama, so it only wins our #3 spot - but if for some reason you are at odds with the top two courses - this would be a safe and effective buy.

Learn Guitar Quick is another good Learn to Play the Guitar online course for beginners. Don't be fooled by its low price and confusing web-site - the program is an excellent beginners course. If you cannot afford to buy one of the courses that came up on top of our tests, we recommend that you use this effective "price leader". It will prove effective in teaching you beginner guitar, and its extremely low $24.95 price which won it our "Editor's Choice - For Tight Budget" title would be money well spent.

Guitar Lessons Pro is useful for all levels. It provides solid training for beginner to advanced guitarists. The course is straightforward, teaching you the do's and don'ts. The product has a certain "no-frills" feel, but you do get your money's worth and it rightfully won its top-five rating in our Learn to Play the Guitar online courses reviews.

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