Tuesday, May 10, 2011

The Lessons

Part of my intention of this project was to go through and review some of the lessons out there or at least get a general idea of what was available. I also intended to be a resource for what worked and what didn't. As preliminary work I had just poked around on youtube, done some quick google searches and watched a few videos on how to play specific songs.
Today I really delved into what it available on youtube and it's a real fucking horror show. The main issue that I'm running into is how fragmented things are. Even some of the more professional videos send you to their regular websites to get the tab or fingering for chords. That is straight up bull shit. If you're trying to be effing pro do a couple of good lead up lessons to let the viewer in on the basics and then send them on chases around the web for various resources.
Right now I'm trying to focus on chords so these are the fairly specific results I'm found so far. I'll go into more detailed descriptions later on.

Professional Videos
These are done mostly from people running their separate websites that are offering some of their videos on youtube to draw traffic over, or to sell dvds and other training media.

TrueFireTV http://www.youtube.com/user/TrueFireTV
This appears to be the people behind the Play Guitar in 21 days series

RockingGoodPeople http://www.youtube.com/user/rockongoodpeople
Have their own site and apparently offer DVD guitar lessons

TomFontana (theguitarlesson.com) http://www.youtube.com/user/TomFontana
Seems to be less of a professional youtube channel but a more professional lesson

Song Lessons
There are a ton of lessons based on how to play individual songs. One thing that I have noticed so far is that most of them expect some basic chord knowledge so are a bit fast for starting off.

Flynnersfolksongs http://www.youtube.com/user/FlynnersFolkSongs
Should be a good resource most of the songs aren't too complex and video is done well

Guitarjamzdotcom http://www.youtube.com/user/guitarjamzdotcom
Not the most professional but he seems to have covered a lot of songs

Amature Lessons
These are lessons that are a little more thrown together not necessarilly from a professional

Expertvillage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGDj8e5y_6M&playnext=1&list=PL9D4FDC36F81CD27D
The lessons here are a little bit more all over the place

cmusicvid18 http://www.youtube.com/user/cmusicvid18
There is a rather random assortment from this guy

yourguitarsage http://www.youtube.com/user/yourguitarsage
an assortment of lessons and song instructions

I'll try to dive into the lessons and videos in more depth soon!

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