Hands-On Guitar Lessons Reviews

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

The answer is surprisingly Yes, but a few warnings apply.
In a nutshell, "guitar lessons at home" 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 Guitar Lessons scams or bad products!

The ReviewsNest team of experts, with the help of several professional guitarists of different genres, performed hands-on tests of several 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.

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	The Beginner's Guide to Unlocking the Guitar by Jared Crebs	Guitar Made Easy by Louise Slavnic	Guitar Lessons Pro by Domenick Ginex
Our Review
Lowest Price	$249 to $299 Easy payment plans with low monthly payments.	Jamorama Jamorama Acoustic Guitar $39.95 (soon $99.95)	$39.95	$17.00	$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 e-books, 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 e-book ● How to Tune your Guitar e-book ● Lifetime access to online updates Jamorama Lead Guitar option adds: ● Lead Guitar eBook ● 43 Lead Guitar video lessons ● 29 Lead Guitar Jam Tracks	● The Beginner's Guide to Unlocking the Guitar e-book ● Beginner chord sound files ● The Perfect Chord Chart for Beginners ● 150 popular songs with 4 chords or less e-book ● Beginning singing techniques e-book	● Guitar Made Easy e-book	● Beginner and Intermediate e-books ● Sound clips ● Guitar Chord Dictionary e-book ● Licks and Tricks e-book ● Playing the Blues, Basics and Beyond e-book
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Children	ü	ü	- OK with adult assistance	ü	-
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.	One thumb Down! Ill phrased money back guarantee: No certainty you will get your money back.	Two Thumbs UP. No Risk, Full money back guarantee: 90 days, No questions asked.	Two Thumbs UP. No Risk, Full money back guarantee: 1 year, No questions asked, and you get to keep the e-books.
In a Nutshell	An amazing course. Excellent book by itself may be considered best book or e-book course around. 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 Guitar Lessons 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 e-books, 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 guitar lessons you can find under $100.	An effective guitar lessons course for beginners. Based on an e-book and sound files it enables learning basic guitar skills fairly easy and quickly. Not intended for more advanced levels. Uses some misleading sales practices.	A Very good guitar lessons course for beginners. Contains an e-book covering beginner guitar in 6-lessons. Not nearly as effective and compre- hensive as Learn and Master Guitar, Jamorama or the Beginner's Guide to Unlocking the Guitar, but unbeatable at its price level.	Good guitar lessons 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 Guitar Lessons	9.0/10	8.5/10 Best Guitar Lessons on Tight Budget	8.0/10
Our Review

Our tests of online guitar lessons courses and sites laid out a very clear picture of the market. We have found some extremely effective guitar lessons sites, among many also-rans, bad products and scams.

You will be amazed at what an effective guitar lessons 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 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 guitar lessons courses, we listed here only the five top-rated courses. This means that all online guitar lessons 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 guitar lessons course that gives you the best value. That is why we have to pick our winners:

The best online guitar lessons course currently on offer 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 guitar lessons course around. 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 guitar lessons 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 e-books, multiple software programs and games, almost 150 video lesson files, 26 unique Jam-Tracks, numerous audio files, and additional bonus e-books, these guitar lessons 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 e-books 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 many thousands of hours practicing with all online guitar lessons courses and sites, our testers - amateurs and pros alike - 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 very 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.

The Beginner's Guide to Unlocking the Guitar is a very good beginner guitar lessons course that does not proceed to more advanced levels. If you are content with learning basic guitar skills and don't plan on progressing to intermediate, this course will be a good tutor. It's a pity that the program's money-back guarantee is shaky, and that its website includes some misleading sales practices. Still - the course is good and solid, and provides very good learning for the beginner.

Guitar Made Easy is another good program for teaching beginner guitar lessons. Don't be fooled by its low price and humble web-site - the program is one of the best beginners programs around. If you cannot afford to buy Learn and Master Guitar, Jamorama, or at least the Beginner's Guide to Unlocking the Guitar, we recommend that you use this effective "price leader". It will prove effective in teaching you beginner guitar, and its $17 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 online guitar lessons reviews.

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