Top Ranked Youtube Instructors

40GuitarPlayer · #1 03-17-2012, 06:10 AM

Please rank the best youtube instructors/performers to learn from.
Mine would be:

1. Privettricker
2. JustinSandercoeSongs
3. Martyzsongs
4. Guitartutorman
5. DanCHolloway
6. Yourguitarsage
7. Dnuts82

Wasper · #2 03-17-2012, 06:40 AM

Personally I thought Justin was the best. He broke things down to a pretty simple level and went slow enough to give me the confidence that I could do what he was teaching.

Marty was good too... but, I just couldn't get over the fact that in 80% of his videos, he looked like he was high as a kite.... like he just took a long toke off of a bong or something, then flipped the camera on, lol.

At the end of the day though, for me, I decided to get a personal real-life teacher. Watching the videos definitely helped me get started, but i found myself forming bad habits that should have been corrected if someone was there to watch what I was doing. I'm already having to relearn some things due to those bad habits.

slinco · #3 03-17-2012, 07:22 AM

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gjd100 · #4 03-17-2012, 07:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wasper

Personally I thought Justin was the best. He broke things down to a pretty simple level and went slow enough to give me the confidence that I could do what he was teaching.

Marty was good too... but, I just couldn't get over the fact that in 80% of his videos, he looked like he was high as a kite.... like he just took a long toke off of a bong or something, then flipped the camera on, lol.

At the end of the day though, for me, I decided to get a personal real-life teacher. Watching the videos definitely helped me get started, but i found myself forming bad habits that should have been corrected if someone was there to watch what I was doing. I'm already having to relearn some things due to those bad habits.

Justin being the best...Agree.....I'm also using Gibson's Learn and Master series..So far so good....

TNTaylor414 · #5 03-17-2012, 08:19 AM

I recommend BanjoBen1 for anyone wanting to try out Bluegrass. He teaches Guitar, Banjo and Mandolin. Everything from rhythm to lead. No affiliation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cupc...4&feature=plcp

Piker99 · #6 03-17-2012, 09:21 AM

AGF's own Maplebaby, aka tonedr..

carl365 · #7 03-17-2012, 05:55 PM

While I've not seen the others, as of today, I'll have to chose Justin, he's personable, explains and speaks clearly so a newbie can understand.

xntric · #8 03-17-2012, 06:03 PM

I'm a big fan of maplebaby/tonedr -- he's a great player, his instructions are very clear, and he seems like a genuinely nice guy. I've also benefited from several of Justin's lessons, and would say the same for him.

mesa · #9 03-17-2012, 08:32 PM

One would be hard pressed to find a better instructor or person than Rob Bourassa. He can do it all!

http://www.youtube.com/user/robboura...arist/featured

Brock63 · #10 03-17-2012, 08:43 PM

1. GuitarJamz (Martyzsongs)
2. JustinSandercoeSongs

These were the two I found myself going to the most. I settled on Marty's GuitarJamz site and then bought the DVD after a couple weeks of settling. His easy going style worked best for me. Have been doing it 5 nights a week for about 15 minutes of practice after checking guitar tune and some warm ups of past exercises. Plus I have a couple finger picking things I am working on at same time as I found myself preferring that style and strumming with no pick between them.

Anyhow....Marty has been good so far. I will give a review after I complete his entire Beginner Course. Wish me luck.

thedarkestnight · #11 03-17-2012, 11:32 PM

creativeguitarstudio

I feel like I'm getting music classes for free.

Davis Webb · #12 03-18-2012, 07:55 AM

Vicki Genfan.

Explaing and showing isn't teaching. Teaching needs a system to work. The worst videos are ones in which they say "now put your 3rd finger on the 4th fret of the B string, then put your 2nd finger on the 5th fret of the A". I can see that, duhh. I don't need you to explain what I am looking at.

A good teacher anticipates the student's questions and has a lesson plan. As a result i have learned very little from youtube, other than how to do certain guitar tricks like right hand acoustic tapping.

mr. beaumont · #13 03-18-2012, 09:02 AM

Youtube vids, unless specifically tailored to a student and sent back and forth in a tutorial fashion, are really just the equivalent of a worksheet a teacher photocopies after a student reads a chapter. It's not real teaching.

You can pick up a lot of tricks and find stuff out quickly on youtube, but I wouldn't call any of these people "teachers."

40GuitarPlayer · #14 03-19-2012, 03:57 PM

Certainly a real life teacher seems best (if they are a good one), but it's hard to overstate the usefulness of the internet, and youtube in particular, in learning to play songs, and learing about guitar in general (witness this forum).
I think it's great that so many people lend their time and efforts to "put themselves out there" by posting instruction videos or just cover videos. It's a form of self expression for them, I'm sure, but it's also been greatly beneficial to me to learn from them.