Guitar Tricks Review

Guitar Tricks Review

This website has been on our radar for some time now and have been impressed by the polished approach to both the quality of the website and the superb tuition on offer. We have been granted full access to the Guitar Tricks website recently and can now offer this review to help you decide whether this particular course would suit your playing ambitions and budget.

Firstly its important to point out that you can check out the website easily by just registering for a free account. This will allow you access to 24 video guitar lessons across a range of styles which will give you a pretty good idea as to the quality of the tuition on offer.

Costs

The guitar tricks website is a membership website which means you pay a monthly fee to join. It's pretty nominal fee at the moment (currently $14.95) so it won't break the bank however you will need to keep paying this in order access the features on the website.

So what do you get for your money?

• Over 3000 video guitar lessons and tutorials
• Over 45 instructors
• 150 backing tracks in the Guitar Tricks Jam Station
• Metronome and tuner
• Forums with over 200,000 posts, 22,000 threads
• Ability to connect directly with instructors

The impressive Jam Station (see above)

Guitar tricks also provides a great little utility called the Jam Station which offers 150 backing tracks in all kinds of styles. It's easy to use and will help any guitarist improve his jamming skills as well as putting many of the techniques shown into use. There is also a Metronome and tuner on the website which is good to see.

The video quality of the guitar lessons is excellent although not all of them are in high definition. The instructors are always excellent however and this is no surprise when you find out more about the company.

Guitar Tricks has professional relationships with Line 6, Gibson, D'addario, Sweetwater, EMI Records and Sony. They are a NAMM member and a member of the Better Business Bureau with an A+ rating. Many guitar lessons are shot as a full curriculum under guidance of MIT and Berkelee educated instructors which makes this website really stand out from the crowd in terms of quality.

The range of styles covered is extremely broad as well with everything from "b-bender guitar" to "touch tapping" covered in great detail. We don't think many guitarists will be dissapointed as anyone from beginner to advanced level with find plenty on offer.

Ben Lindholm, one of the rock guitar instructors on Guitartricks.com.

The verdict

We love this website, its a pleasure to use and we didn't experience any problems or slow download speeds when watching the videos. The tuition is outstanding and there is an incredible amount of variety on offer. All lessons are supported by plenty of information, tabs and MP3 files which makes learning these techniques about as easy as it gets!

Best Features:

• Quality of Instructors
• Full curriculum under guidance of MIT and Berkelee educated instructors.
• Jam Station provides 150 backing tracks to practice to.
• Great forums
• Ability to contact instructors for help

This website will improve your:

• Fingerpicking and acoustic guitar techniques
• Lead guitar technique
• Musical ability
• Improvisational skills

Our Rating: