GuitarTricks for learning to play guitar: Review and Tips
A review of, and some tips for, GuitarTricks.com; my daily haunt for learning to play guitar. I was wandering in the wildnerness of KZread and GuitarTricks gave me a bushwhacked trail to follow. Not to mention no ads.
I’ve been a member for years and didn’t use it nearly enough until this year. I’m on it 5-6 days a week now. It’s not without some bugs and flaws and in the last year a lot of people got upset about a change so we’ll talk about that too. Some features took me a while to really explore. I’m pretty good at exploring applications like AmpliTube but wasn’t so good at digging into all that THE GuitarTricks web site had to offer. Maybe I can help you discover some of those features more quickly than I did.
Topics in this Video
00:00 introduction
01:00 Pricing
01:30 Navigation
2:00 Enable/Disable Auto Play
02:12 Structure Breakdown of a Course
03:30 Video Lesson Features: Playback Speed and Looping
04:45 Hidden Benefit to the Forums
05:15 The thing that makes people MAD!
06:10 Unexpected Benefit to the Collections area
06:30 Don’t miss the Instructors page!
07:30 Toolbox
07:40 Anatomy of Song Lesson
08:40 Get Feedback on your playing
09:00 Outro
www.guitartricks.com
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This is great..!!! I only started learning guitar 8 weeks ago & I'm documenting my entire learning journey on here so this was super motivational!
@UncleTodMusic
10 ай бұрын
That's good to hear and thanks for watching. As someone who only got serious about practicing guitar 9 months ago these lessons have really helped me. No shortcuts or instant success but just following the lessons and trying to get them up to speed and played cleanly really helped. I will say every now and then I bail on the getting it up to speed and clean. They have a triplet minor pentatonic scales lesson they teach at 80 and 120 bpm. Pretty easy at 80 with a little practice. Still really sloppy at 120. At that point I move on to the next lesson but keep practicing on the speed. As I was creating this video I found Christopher Schlegel's lesson on "Building Speed" www.guitartricks.com/lesson/10335 and just changing how I hold the pick has already helped.
@NewLifeWithGuitar
10 ай бұрын
@@UncleTodMusic Very insightful stuff...! Thanks for sharing that!! I also find most things I learn are quickly doable around the 80bpm range... but you're right, once that's knocked up around 100-120bpm it soon becomes sloppy haha! And thanks for the great videos you put out... they're appreciated!
Really cool! Thank you for this video. Been kicking the tires on getting a personal instructor but dang it’s pricey. Been playing since COVID started and I feel like I’ve been a rut. Been needing some instruction for sure.
@UncleTodMusic
3 ай бұрын
They have made some navigation improvements since I made that video so staying out of ruts is a bit easier. If you're just starting I think you'll really like going through the Basic Guitar 1 and 2 lessons. Then pick your favorite style and work though both levels of that style. I started on Blues and then switched to Rock and finished most of the 2nd level of Rock and then started learning some 3-pick level songs.
Great channel Tod. Loved all your videos on Amplitube 😀 I subscribed instantly! I'll share with all my guitar friends. Best of luck with your channel.
@UncleTodMusic
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching.
Is transposing an option for the songs so the chords match your vocal range?
@UncleTodMusic
5 ай бұрын
I have not seen any way to do that.
Not as good as True Fire. Guitar tricks has really shown it's age.
@UncleTodMusic
4 ай бұрын
Thanks for mentioning them. Good to know about the alternatives.