Company	Website	Rating	Skill Level	Price
Guitar Hotshot	www.guitarhotshot.com			$29.95

Guitar Hotshot Review

Guitar Hotshot is a new guitar learning site that was just launched several months ago and is taught by the same guitar teacher that was involved with the music course Music Master Pro. Jamie Lewis of Guitar Hotshot appears to be an alias of Jay Dynasty from the Music Master Pro website. (or vice versa)

Sadly, Guitar Hotshot seems to be a dismal attempt by Jamie Lewis to create a successor for the failed Music Master Pro course. Unfortunately, you just have to learn to recognize these sites for what they are... a waste of time and money. There are plenty of good sites to learn guitar with on the internet these days, but this is not one of them.

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Features

Guitar Hotshot has a lot of hype, but regrettably doesn't deliver as promised on their sales page. The page's first two sentences loudly exclaim:

In actuality, there is only approximately 2 hours of guitar video lessons in the member's area. The site promises to regularly update it's lessons. Hasn't happened yet. The site says that there is an accompanying chord charts and other supplemental guitar teaching material with EACH guitar video lesson. We didn't find a single supplemental aid. The list of false promises goes on... but I think you get the point.

The course videos are of amateur quality and the lighting is very poor. The resolution is also rather low, like they were shot using a 1 megapixel web-cam. Unlike most courses out there, these videos weren't created using split camera views, which in addition to the poor video quality makes it very hard to follow along with what the instructor is doing. Jamie Lewis doesn't teach in a terribly concise manner, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the numerical sequence of the lessons.

The actual video lessons touch on various topics including: Finger picking and tapping, using a metronome, palming, tuning for beginners, how to use various hardware setups, practice rhythm, etc.

Guitar Hotshot currently contains the following:

1. 32 Guitar Instruction Videos in Quicktime format
2. 1 .pdf on Music Theory
3. 1 Guitar tablature chart
4. 3 piano scales and chord diagrams
5. 24 Piano and Violin Instruction Videos

The uncomfortable truth is, because of well-deserved bad press, Music Master Pro ran itself into the ground. This likely explains why Jamie Lewis has created a new rash of music learning sites. (Some similar music site examples are Piano Coach Pro, and Violin Master Pro which use some of the same videos as Music Master Pro does).

On the positive side, a Guitar Hotshot membership comes with a free login to Beats365.com (also owned by Jamie Lewis), which allows you download a fair number of jam tracks. The member's area is relatively clean, and there are more videos that teach guitar than was available with Music Master Pro. Like MMP, they do throw in an extra measure of instructional videos for those who want to learn violin as well as piano under their "bonus videos" section. Understandably, most people out there will find this extra 'bonus' pretty useless.

Support/Warranty

Guitar Hotshot has a single email address available for you to reach if you want to talk to someone about the course or run into any issues.

Comes with a 30-day guarantee, the standard for most downloadable learning products.

Ease of Use

It would have been nice if Guitar Hotshot had allowed their paying customers the option to download all the instructional videos to their computer so they can view them at their leisure. Amazingly, you'll have to pay another $19.95 for that privilege.

Setup/Compatibility

Guitar Hotshot training videos are in Quicktime's video format, which and is therefore compatible with both PCs and Macs.

Price

Guitar Hotshots is relatively cheap, at only $30. It speaks to the quality of the course when we say that it just *might* be worth about half of that.

Conclusion

In simple terms, pass on this one. While some of the videos can be helpful guitar newbies, the dishonesty and unethical practices of Guitar Hotshot gives it two thumbs down. A very good alternative to Guitar Hotshot is Jamorama, one of our editor's choices.

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