Tabs for online guitar lessons recommendations
Hi, I’m still a beginner and I’ve been using Guitar Tricks as my main learning resource. It’s very good up until the play along lessons where they have the video on one side of the screen showing the teacher play and the tablature on the other side which auto scrolls along with the song. As you can imagine it can be very hard to follow the teacher and tablature at the same time and is a clunky system to use.
This is especially annoying when trying to learn off a small tablet or phone. So with that in mind, does anyone know of any lessons that have the tabs appear line by line within the video at the same time the teacher is playing them? Kind of like subtitles. Only stipulation is nothing on YouTube as I find a software/app is better for tracking progress and keeping on course. Thanks! |
Jonny,
I’m a beginner as well. I find printing the tablature off works best for me. Jerry of Jerry’s Guitar Bar has video lessons that , for me, are super easy to follow along with while having the printed tablature displayed next to my tablet. Here’s a link. https://www.jerrysguitarbar.com/ Good luck and I hope that is helpful. -Tom |
Hi Jonny,
Don’t take this the wrong way, but you’re basically asking to learn by being spoon-fed and making the least possible effort. I’m not saying you have to suffer to learn. It’s just that the best-looking teaching material is probably not going to be the best method or material. |
I'm partial to Justin Sandercoe's website Justinguitar.com where there are tabs for songs, but he also has an entire course free of charge, of which part of it is ear training. That said I do make a donation.
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I have been learning online for a couple of years now. Guitar Tricks is one I have not used. I can say that I very much like the sound slice videos. TrueFire.com uses them now and I find them very useful. You can slow them down and repeat them or continuous loop them. The same is with jamplay.com. True fire has a lot of sales and you can always find beginners courses for $5 or so. I really like the the guitar pro app for my iPad. You can loop 1 phrase at a time and slow it down. Same goes for ultimateguitar.com. Their system is pretty similar but It is a yearly subscription where guitar pro is one time (under $10). One other thing I do is is hook my tablet up to a large monitor. The cables are pretty inexpensive.
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I cancelled guitars tricks. Their entry level course which I went through, to fill in any gaps I have with strumming --due to being a finger picker from the beginning -- bored me to tears as the instructor only included songs she had written herself and her soprano voice graded on me. That said she was a good instructor. Apparently the format of the course does not use any popular songs for entry level instruction. I can see that wisdom in that but...
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After watching Roger Waters play "Money" on The Making of Dark Side of the Moon, I decided to learn a slow single acoustic version. I have watched almost all of the Youtube teaching videos and acoustic covers. I have printed out many versions of the tab. I see no reason to figure this out on my own when others already have. Either way it is still a lot of time and effort to the finished product. |
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wanting to use pop songs? |
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But my God her songs were soooooooo boring. |
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I have the same issue with activemelody.com there are two or three great lessons on how to improvise around a familiar tune using stuff like Jingle Bells and Happy Birthday which I found very usefull but most of the lessons are based on progressions rather than melodies which is not so much what I like to do.
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I really like Fender Play. It is a subscription service but I like the layout and the customization ability
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Life is short and very few of us will be any more than couch or backyard players. Why on earth always take the hard road? What will that really get you in the end? Some here just want to learn a song, play it and move on. I do agree modern tabs still leave a lot to be desired. That is why I look at so many different ones. And watch so many different versions. It is still a process and a lot of time and work. |
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