I came across an interesting and really well done Guitar Lesson site. The site is basically a video lesson site providing lessons that teach songs and providing lessons on certain techniques.
Their gimmick, at least with songs, is that some of the lessons are actually provided by real NAME artists. I can see the benefit of the hook of that but I’m not sure I see the real benefit of that. We can all agree that certain artists have a great deal of skill as a guitar play or a piano player or a drummer or whatever but it is not always true that they have equal skill as an instructor in that same area. Hopefully, the artists that are willing to be part of this effort do have some skill in this area.
You can check out some of the material for free. The Tutorials on skills (string bending, alternate picking, blues riffs, … ) are free though remember the songs all cost money.
My impression is that the video is top notch quality and very easy to follow. The video is professional and better than almost anything that I’ve seen out there.
I do think that there are 2 major limits though that they will need to fix before it can really gain a lot of traction.
- The site needs to provide supplemental printed materials (i.e. PDF’s or something like it) for each video lesson for the student to print out and follow along with. The lessons can be hard with out these.
- Lessons should be organized more so that there is more of a progression. I mean tell the student, take this lesson first, then this lesson, then this lesson then this lesson. Once you have done that and have mastered the techniques, you progress from beginner to intermediate or from one level to another. This actually provides real instruction.
Try it out and let me know what you think.