A Great Beginner Guitar Course
An acquaintance of mine, British guitarist and over all super nice fellow Phill Mason has released a brand new online guitar course: Crash Course Muso – Beginners Guitar Video Lessons.
He is graciously giving away several total beginner lessons for anyone keen on starting out to learn guitar.
And I must say, the quality of these lessons are totally jaw-dropping. The audio and video on these guitar lessons are nothing short of amazing (yes, of course I signed up to have a look – everything else would be cheating in my book…). I never, ever go about recommending something I haven’t actually tested myself.
Phill has chosen a wise slogan for his course: “Play first – learn later” With this he’s correctly stating that it is (to anyone but the hard-core – 100% theory-driven “guitar nerds”) far more satisfying to actually learn how to play some basic riffs and easy songs from the very beginning, rather than being bogged down with a lot of boring, “mumbo-jumbo” theory.
We all obviously want to actually learn how to play something worthwhile on the guitar, right?
Of course, the theory bit is also taken care of. After you have learned to play some rewarding stuff, you will be shown the basic underlying principles (in other words theory) as you progress. Smart move!
Phill has a very relaxed, pleasant and laid-back – still firm, direct and no-frills – style of teaching. This makes you believe in him as a teacher and trust in his ability to deliver the goods. You will also very soon begin to believe in your own abilities to actually learn guitar.
Is it all guitar rosy then?
Anything negative to say at all, it can’t all be total guitar nirvana? Well, the only thing I have found so far is the fact that this is strictly a total beginner guitar package as far as I can see.
If you have some basic skills already in place, you might want to opt in for the more advanced, paid options. Mind you, these are still very, very cost effective.
Even if this is, by nature and design, basic guitar skills being presented, you are also being shown how to do proper right hand (strumming hand) damping of the strings. A vital lesson to be learned early on indeed!
A rocking good way?
If you’re seriously interested in the fastest way possible to learn electric guitar, then I would urge you to have a look at the Crash Guitar Course! For a free guitar course option, it doesn’t get any better that this – definitely amongst the absolute best online guitar courses I’ve come across so far.
Five thumbs up … eh…, could I borrow three of your? You’ll get them back – promise! :-)

April 7th, 2010 at 9:29 am
Hey mate, thanks for sharing but this page doesn’t format correctly in Firefox it is showing only half the page.
April 8th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Thanks for your notice. Looks normal here in Firefox and all other browsers, however (I always double check).
May 11th, 2010 at 11:03 am
Your guitar player blog is so informative … keep up the good work!
May 31st, 2010 at 7:39 pm
hey, excellent blog dude! I’m Tired of using RSS feeds and do you use twitter so i can follow you there? :D.
PS:Do you considered putting video to your blog to keep the people more entertained wile learning electric guitar? I think it works. Yours, Kandra Hequembourg
June 12th, 2010 at 1:44 am
Hey mate, guitar greetings from Brazil!
September 6th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
Thanks for sharing your ideas about beginner guitar courses. After all, sharing is caring :-)
October 14th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Good write-up about beginner guitar courses. Thanks for the info!
October 27th, 2010 at 1:40 am
Audio books can be quite helpful and simple to use. Especially for language studying. But I got fed up of crap, what are some nice audio books?
October 27th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Don’t know. I play guitar and write a blog about the subject of learning how to play it.
Maybe if you kept to the subject I would keep the link in your comment – just a free tip.
November 1st, 2010 at 4:15 am
Interesting post about starter courses for guitar players, keep it up!
December 13th, 2010 at 11:40 am
Been examining a few of your articles and your beginner guitar course info is good stuff. I will definitely come back for more.
December 13th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Another informative beginner guitar article, thanks a bunch.