Where do I start with this review? Guitar Tricks is the oldest video guitar lessons website on the net, online since 1998, when it took over an hour to download anything of size. Long-time guitarist Jon Broderick started the site struggling to find accurate tabs and good information about playing guitar.
Today Guitar Tricks is the
Mecca of guitar lesson sites with over 3,000 video lessons for $10.95 a month. The lessons are taught by absolute experts, professionals who put food on the table by playing guitar. I find the techniques and tricks they teach to be unique and rare.
You don't find the same old, “This is how to play the Am Pentatonic Scale, this is how to play the C chord...” at Guitar Tricks. You find this with the absolute beginner material, but what impresses me with the site is that it's so diverse in skill level (beginner to expert), and you can browse lessons based on both genre (so diverse there's even Surf) and influences such as Eddie Van Halen for instance.
I have a drawer full of DVDs by all of the top pros like Frank Gambale, John Petrucci, and Michael Angelo Batio. All of which cost me roughly $500. Jon Broderick's site has videos that show you how to play the same sort of techniques I paid out the rear for. Valuable doesn't quite describe the site, more like invaluable.
I learn more in one day with the website than I used to in a month. The navigation is very fluent. The lessons are dense with great material.
But there are some downsides. While Guitar Tricks may be literally 10 times cheaper than even taking private lessons and great for progressing quickly, some of the older videos have bad lighting and not the greatest sound quality. For instance, there's a killer 8 to 10 video tapping
