Best Online Guitar Courses & Lessons Reviewed:

Guitar Hotshot is a relatively new guitar-learning course. Jamie Lewis, the guitar teacher involved with the terribly bad guitar-learning course Music Master Pro is also a part of Guitar Hotshot, and is allegedly known as Jay Dynasty on the Music Master Pro site.

Unfortunately, Guitar Hotshot apparently seems to be Jamie Lewis's another depressing try to create a successor for the the Music Master Pro course, which was a major failure. You just need the eye to recognize these websites for the great deal of waste they are of both your time and money. There are a lot of good websites from where you can learn guitar online, and this just is not one of them.

Guitar Hotshot is more hype than substance, as it does not deliver what it promises on the sales page. The first two sentences on the page claim: "FORGET ABOUT MUSIC SCHOOL! Download 40 hours of Intensive Guitar lessons on video."

As I entered into the member's area, I was totally shocked to see what the video lessons were all about! After searching for some time, I could only find up to 2 hours of guitar video lessons on the site. The course also promises regular updates, but we haven't seen anything updated since we have purchased the course (it has been a year).

Guitar Hotshot also claims to offer accompaniments like chord charts and supplemental guitar teaching material with each guitar video lesson. Unfortunately, we could not find any supplemental aid. The list is filled with false promises that go on and on.

The course includes all amateur videos with very poor quality lighting and effects. The resolution is bad too, and just to let you know- you should not expect features like split camera view or on-screen notation. The site does not contain anything that a good guitar video course should. The teachings of Jamie Lewis are not concise, and there is no proper numerical sequence for the lessons.

The video lessons have included some topics like finger picking and tapping, palming, using a metronome, tuning for beginners, how to use different hardware setups, practice rhythm, and others. However, they have not included the details in the course

Guitar Hotshot contains some of the following features:

• 32 Guitar Instruction Videos in QuickTime format
• 1 PDF on Music Theory
• 1 Guitar tablature chart
• 3 piano scales and chord diagrams
• 24 Piano and Violin Instruction Videos

Due to the lackluster work and inconsistent lessons, Jamie Lewis's Guitar Hotshot seems to be an ultimate failure like any other courses of his, such as Violin Master Pro, Piano Coach Pro, and Music Master Pro.

If there's something positive about Guitar Hotshot, it is the free membership to Beats365.com, which is also owned by Jamie Lewis. This allows users to download some jam tracks from here. The member's area seems to be good enough, and there are more videos teaching guitar than those available on other sites. Like MMP, Guitar Hotshot takes added measures to include instructional videos for those who want to learn piano and violin under the "bonus" section. However, the extra bonuses are just useless.

Guitar Hotshot has only one email address where you can contact someone about the course you are using, and expecting a reply would leave you waiting in vain.

The training videos are available in the QuickTime video format, which is compatible with both Mac and PC.

It would be an added bonus if Guitar Hotshot would allow their paid users to download all the instructional videos to the computer to be used at their leisure. Unfortunately, they charge an extra $19.95 for this privilege.

The course comes with a 2 month guarantee, which is standard for downloadable learning products.

Guitar Hotshot is relatively cheaper and costs $29.95 only. However, the course is not even worth one-tenth of the amount paid.

According to us, Guitar Hotshot isn't worth your money. While some videos may seem useful, it's only so because they are not harmful. Guitar Hotshot is an unethical site that gets two thumbs down from us. For decent computer based guitar course we recommend Jamorama.