A List of the Best Guitar Learning Websites

Learning to play the guitar, and being able to play the axe and kill a solo like your favorite rock stars is a LOT of fun! However at the same time, it requires patience, effort and a great deal of hard work. Luckily, there’s no shortage of online resources that will allow you to do just that.

Online guitar learning comes with many advantages, the biggest of which is convenience. It allows you to learn how to play the guitar (or work on a specific part of your guitar-play) whenever you want and wherever you want.

If you’re a newbie who’s looking to learn to play the guitar, or if you’re an experienced guitarist who’s looking to take his guitar-playing skills to the next level, here’s a list of online resources that will help you achieve what you want to:

1.  GuitarTricks

One of the best guitar-learning websites on the internet, Guitar Tricks has a whole host of free guitar lessons, as well as tons of premium content.

Free lessons includes stuff from beginner and advanced lessons, lead lessons, as well as thythm and technique lessons, all with their impressive panel of guitar instructors. There are a total of 24 free lessons available on the website.

If however you get the full-access membership for $14.95-a-month, you instantly get access to a massive library of guitar lessons (more than 5000 and counting!), unlimited access to tutorials, and a whole host of other goodies.

Their faculty includes dozens of instructors, each of whom specializes in a specific genre of guitar-playing.

Lessons are divided into different categories – there’s a lot to choose from for total beginners, as well as experienced, seasoned guitarists as well. You can structure your lessons in any way you want. Or you could skip the lessons and go straight to learning songs, all of which are divided according to genre, as well as one’s guitar-playing proficiency.  There’s a bunch of songs to choose from too!

Highly recommended!

2. JustinGuitar

Looking for free lessons? Well look no further! JustinGuitar offers an impressive library of 500 lessons – all of which are totally free (568 lessons at the time of writing, to be precise).

A lot of the lessons are audio and/or video-based, which means that a lot of work has gone into the creation of these lessons. Lessons are arranged according to specific music genres and skills levels, as well as according to chords, scales, rhythm and arpeggios, aural training and other aspects of guitar-play.

The website works on what it refers to as an ‘honor system’, which essentially calls upon the users to make a donation if they can afford to do so, or buy a product from the store. Doing so allows Justin Sandercoe to keep the lessons free.

The lessons are pretty good, and for a website that gives you in excess of 500 free lessons, it is a truly outstanding online guitar-learning resource. Make sure that you donate whatever you can, so that these lessons remain free for everyone. You can donate using PayPal, Bank Transfer or Cheque.

3. Jamorama

One of the biggest guitar learning websites on the internet, Jamorama claims to be one of the best step-by-step guitar lessons on the internet!

Jamorama is a great resource for beginner guitar players in particular, and caters to both acoustic as well as electric guitar players. It allows new guitar-players the perfect opportunity to learn to play and master the guitar from the comforts of their home, and at a pretty good price too!

Lessons are presented in 3 ways:

(a) via a newsletter, which includes gear reviews, instructional/how-to articles, videos, free lessons, and goodies such as discounts and promotions,

(b) a beginner-to-advanced course, spread over 250+ pages, which claims to be better than others because it takes you through the process of learning the guitar by taking them through each step, and guides beginner and inexperienced guitar players through the process of learning the guitar by telling them what to learn next,

(c) a beginner-to-advanced hardcopy course, which is essentially the same course, but can be had on a DVD which is shipped straight to your door.

All lessons are available in digital format, and can be downloaded on one’s computer. These lessons take you through the basics of playing the guitar, to learning guitar skills like strumming, picking, bending, arpeggios and a lot more. The lessons are aimed at helping guitar players learn songs, play with other musicians, and be able to play whatever they want to.

The entire course, including more than 250  lessons, around 150 video lessons, and tons of bonus stuff – all of which is aimed to take you from being a newbie to an advanced guitar player – costs $49.95, an amazing value-for-money deal, especially when you consider that this is a one-time cost without any monthly fees to pay!

4. JamPlay

Another pretty great online guitar-learning resource, JamPlay is pretty jam-packed in terms of lessons, instructors and other goodies.

For starters, JamPlay, unlike some of the other online guitar-learning resources, is not only aimed at beginner guitar players only. It’s massive library features more than 2000 video lessons for beginners and advanced guitar players, covering all genres and all guitar-playing styles and techniques.

All video lessons are available in HD, and are presented in a structured manner as they’re divided into different categories – including genre and skills-building lessons, song lessons, and lessons exclusively meant for beginner guitar players. You can choose to go straight to lessons for beginners, or instead learn a skill, a sing or a guitar-playing style.

And if that isn’t enough, JamPlay features more than 50 experienced, professional guitar instructors as well. You can opt for any one of the instructors from a set of acoustic or electric guitar teachers, or better yet, learn specific songs and guitar-playing techniques from performing artists. How cool is that!

Highly recommend you check JamPlay out, you certainly won’t be disappointed! Membership starts from $19.95 per month, and yearly membership costs 140 bucks – a great deal at a great price, considering what you get in return.