Company	Website	Rating	Skill Level	Price
Guitar Tricks	www.guitartricks.com			$14.95

Guitar Tricks Review

Editor's Choice 2008

Having been around for the last 10 years, Guitar Tricks is one of the largest online video guitar learning sites on the web. They have 45 different guitar instructors covering many different styles and techniques and are fast-approaching 4,000 video guitar lessons. If you want a taste of some of the lessons they have available for their members you can take a look at 24 free lessons available that you can take a look at. For more, you'll have to upgrade your membership.

Almost 100 lessons are added to the site's database each month, and the site's membership is huge as well. They recently welcomed their 10,000th member. If you're new to guitar or advanced the multitude of styles, genres and skill levels will keep you learning for a long time.

Screenshots

Here are some actual screenshots from the Guitar Tricks course.

 

 

Features

One powerful feature of Guitar Tricks is that almost every video guitar lesson includes supplemental material such as diagrams, exercises, and tablature. They also give you the option to print the lesson material.

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* Bold denotes Editor's Choice

Probably the coolest feature of Guitar Tricks is that they actually allow you download the video lesson in the standard .FLV video format. Note that you will need to download their Guitar Tricks FLV player to view them on your computer. Most online video guitar sites don't allow you to do this. This is a huge plus in our opinion as it allows you to watch the lessons independent of an active internet connection.

Guitar Tricks has an active community forum that many of their members regularly contribute to. They have a member-chat room as well, though we didn't find anyone around that would talk to you us when we recently visited. :) Actually, there just wasn't anyone around at that moment...

Because most of the lessons added are by independent guitar teachers, the audio and video quality will vary. However, Guitar Tricks does have a quality-control process in place to keep low quality videos from being added to the database.

How the site is Organized:

You can view the site's diverse course material by category. They have all major guitar genres represented including, acoustic, alternative, jazz, funk, metal, bluegrass and more. They also have a 'inspired by' section. Other categories include chords, exercises, techniques, theory, reference, and beginners. You can also search the site by keyword.

UPDATE: Guitar Tricks recently put together a beginner lesson plan or guide to learning the guitar. In other words, they hand selected specific guitar lessons to aid those that are brand new to guitar and created a logical course out of it.

Bonuses for new Subscribers:

Guitar Tricks is quite generous in the extras they give to their members. They currently offer the following tools for download:

1. Guitar Tricks FLV video player (for viewing downloaded videos)
2. Guitar Tricks Digital Tuner
3. Ultimate Metronome (read our review for more details)

Note: Guitar Tricks is not a downloadable course, but an affordable subscriber-based website that contains thousands of video guitar lessons. One plus of this learning approach is that you have access to your course from anywhere, can start right away, and don't have to wait for the entire guitar course to download before use.

Support / Warranty

Guitar Tricks has the usual support options plus a toll free phone support number that you can take advantage of if you get stuck. Their best support feature in our opinion is that you can email your guitar instructors with your comments or questions. There is no guarantee as to when they'll get back to you, but the 1 on 1 support is a nice option.

Their warrantee includes an excellent 60-day 100% money back guarantee, which is more than enough time to evaluate their site.

Ease of Use

We won't say that Guitar Tricks is the easiest video site to navigate (largely due to it's size), but it does have a ton of handy features. For example, it keeps a history of the lessons you've visited so it's easy to navigate to lessons you recently viewed. You can also bookmark particular lessons you especially like.

Even though you have two resolution options available when viewing video lessons, those on dial-up internet connections will most likely have problems accessing the course material. For such users, we recommend you take a look at our Learn and Master Guitar Review.

Setup/Compatibility

Flash is required to view the site's videos on their online site. They have an independent FLV player for Windows PCs so that you can view downloaded videos from the site. An independent FLV player is currently in the works for the Mac however.

Price

At $14.95/mo. Guitar Tricks has the lowest price for online video guitar lessons that we've seen.

Guitar tricks has a wide range of payment options. They accept all major credit cards, paypal payments, and check or money orders.

Conclusion

Guitar Tricks is a incredibly affordable online video guitar lessons site. It is also one of the largest, if not THE largest out there. They have a huge variety of lessons available so you will be certain to find whatever you're looking for. We recommend them highly!

 

Check Out Guitar Tricks Now!     Why Online Guitar Lessons?

• Monstrous Video Guitar Lesson Database
• New Videos Added Regularly