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Guitar Tricks is one of the largest video guitar-learning websites today. With over 45 guitar instructors covering various techniques and styles and a database of 3,000+ video guitar lessons, Guitar Tricks is indeed a wonderful website.

The site adds over 100 lessons to the database each month and has a huge membership base of 10,000 users and counting. Whether you are just a novice or a guitar veteran, you would be amazed to see the magnitude of the styles, genres, and level of skills you are offered at Guitar Tricks.

You can gain access to their 24 free lessons if you want to first get a taste of what you are in for before you opt for paid membership.

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One of the most remarkable features of Guitar Tricks is that it not only offers supplemental materials like diagrams, tablature, and exercises, but also includes an option to get the lesson printed, apart from having access to video guitar lessons.

The most specific feature of Guitar Tricks is that it also allows you to download the video lessons to your computer in the standard .FLV video format. This feature is not available with most of the online guitar courses. However, you will have to download the Guitar Tricks LV Player in order to view the same on your computer. This is a bonus feature that will allow you to watch these lessons independently without an internet connection.

Guitar Tricks also has an active community forum. Members contribute to the forum regularly, and a unique member chat room can be found on the site as well.

As the lessons are usually added by independent guitar teachers, the quality of audio and video tends to vary from one lesson to another. However, Guitar Tricks does have its quality-control process that keeps low quality videos from being added to the database.

How is the Site Organized?

The website and its diverse course material and lessons can be viewed according to categories. They contain all the major guitar genres presented, such as alternative, jazz, acoustic, mental, bluegrass, and others. Guitar Tricks also has a "inspired by" section, where guitarists can learn something new from the styles of famous musicians. Other important categories include chores, techniques, theory, exercises, beginners, and references. A keyword search is another inbuilt feature that can be used with ease.

Guitar Tricks has recently combined a series of guitar learning lessons for beginners. In fact, they have hand-picked some guitar lessons that are tailor-made for newbies and are presented as logical, step-by-step courses.

Bonuses

Guitar Tricks is quite generous with regards to the bonuses offered to new members; these include:

• 1. Guitar Tricks FLV video player
• 2. Guitar Tricks Digital Tuner
• 3. Ultimate Metronome

Guitar Tricks has support options and also a toll-free phone number that can be used as well. The best thing, however, is the fact that they allow you to interact with the guitar instructors through email. Though there isn't any assurance as to when you will get a reply, the site's one-on-one support approach is quite good.

Guitar Tricks may not be the easiest video guitar learning course available on the internet, but it does offer a whole lot to avid guitarists. For instance, it allows you to manage the history of the lessons you've been through so that you can pick up from right where you left off. You can use the bookmark feature for particular lessons too.

While there are two resolutions available for viewing video lessons, those using a dial-up internet connection will often experience problems as far as accessing the course material is concerned. For such users, we suggest you go through the Gibson's Learn and Master Guitar review.

Flash is required to view videos online. Guitar Tricks uses an independent FLV player for Windows so that you can see the downloaded videos from the website. An independent FLV player is being designed for Mac as well.

Guitar Tricks offers a 60 day 100% money back guarantee, which is more than enough for evaluating the site.

Guitar Tricks offers the lowest price of $14.95/mo among all the online video guitar lessons we have seen till date. The site has a lot of payment options too. It accepts all major credit cards, PayPal, and check or money orders as well.

Guitar Tricks is an affordable and must-visit online video guitar lesson site that offers guitar lessons for just about anyone who loves the guitar.