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From: Jon Broderick
Oakland, CA
May 1st, 2008


Welcome to Guitar Tricks!

My name is Jon Broderick, and I started this website back in May, 1998. That's right, it's our 10 year anniversary!

As far as I know, I invented multimedia online guitar lessons.

Really! I didn't mean to invent something, but that's what happened.

Below I will tell you everything you need to know about how GuitarTricks.com started, who we are and what we do.

But first...

Let me give you a brief overview of what Guitar Tricks is today:


  Guitar Tricks Today
Guitar Tricks Today

Guitar Tricks is the works of 45 instructors from all over the world.

We offer 1000s of video guitar lessons covering every style from blues to surf, classical to metal.

Over 10,000 people visit Guitar Tricks every day.

We are an Alexa Top 50k Ranked website.

We have professional relationships with Gibson Guitar, D'addario Strings, and other top entertainment companies.

We'll give you a pre-selected set of 24 free video guitar lessons just to sample our service.

Our free membership includes bonus features like jam tracks, guitar forums, gear review and more with no funny business and no strings attached.

Free membership includes the option to upgrade to Full Access for only $14.95 per month, cancel anytime.

For Experienced Players! An Amazing Amount of Fun

Even the most advanced player will be amazed by the amount of techniques, styles and tricks you will learn from our 3000+ lessons.

Don't play the same thing over and over again! You don't have to. We can show you techniques and tricks that will breath new life and fun into your playing.

We guarantee you will be both impressed and surprised and more importantly have a great time exploring new techniques at Guitar Tricks.

Preview a Sample Intermediate Lesson.


We give you 24 free guitar lessons just to sample our service!

                Ready to get started? Quick and easy signup here:

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For Beginners! We Guarantee the Best Beginner Courses

Frustrated by trying to learn guitar from the beginning online? You should be!

Most online beginner courses are simply too hard.

Most instructors have a difficult time visualizing the correct level for a beginner course.

We should know, we learned how to create a great beginner course by first creating a bad one.

Our brand new Beginner Level 1 and 2 courses are designed to take you step by step from "What's a fret?" to playing full barre chords.

We guarantee you'll like our beginner courses. If you don't agree, you'll learn for free.

Preview a Sample Beginner Lesson.


"My brother was better than me until I found your site!"
" Just wanted you to know that you site is just the one I have been looking for for years. I can play, but really need to move forward and had no real guidance. I love the site and am so excited about using it to its full potential.

I'm from the UK but living in Dubai in the UAE for more than 20 years, which has taken me away from folk nights and half decent music shops of the UK... My brother plays also and he lives in the UK. Thanks to technology we can generally share a few guitar sessions over the web cam!! Great stuff..... but we're just about at the same level.. well actually he was better than me until I found your site! LOL... now he's wondering where I get it from.. I'll keep him guessing for a while.. .but guess you will have another new member soon enough!!!

Many thanks."
-- Christine G., Dubai, UAE

  About Us
About Us

I started Guitar Tricks in 1998.

I started Guitar Tricks because I had a problem. Maybe it is the same problem you have today...

I had just finished a stint as lead guitarist with a band that played clubs in San Francisco.

Without regular rehearsals, my skills were getting rusty. So, I thought I would try to pick up some tips on the internet.

I went online looking for guitar lessons and I couldn't find anything useful.

I could find songs, but learning someone's song doesn't explain to me why that song works when other songs don't.

I could find tabs, but tabs don't tell the whole story. Tabs have no rhythm information.

I could find lessons, but they were just tabs, too. And without already knowing the song being tabbed, the tab itself was useless.

I could not find knowledge. Everything I saw was tedious, incomplete, hard to understand or all of the above.

I thought to myself, "Maybe if I put up a site with some lessons that clearly explain exactly how to play like I do, then I can get other people to clearly explain exactly how to play like they do, and then I'll learn something."

...guitartricks.com is a top 50k ranked website...with 400,000 visitors every month... Well, to make a long story short, www.GuitarTricks.com was born. Since that time, hundreds of people have added 11288 lessons to Guitar Tricks. We are currently a top 50,000 ranked website, with over 400,000 visitors per month.

Of the hundreds of people who have contributed lessons to Guitar Tricks, we have selected 45 guitar instructors from all over the world to create your one source for great guitar lessons online.

Currently all major musical styles-- every one -- is represented by a real master of that style -- in our 3782 lessons. Our lessons completely cover all skill levels -- from beginner to way past advanced...so you can start wherever you are now and grow to become the best you can be.

Our goal is simply this: to build a giant library of guitar lessons in every conceivable musical style.


We give you 24 free guitar lessons just to sample our service!

                Ready to get started? Quick and easy signup here:

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"Great teaching techniques!"
"I have been playing professionally for about 24 years and have always tried to improve my chops. I stumbled onto your site by sheer accident but it is the best accident I could have gotten into. Your site offers great teaching techniques and is a good source for tweaking anyone's techniques. Kudos to you and your instructors."

-- Chuck Sirko, Greensburg PA
Smokin Section Band


"No guitar teacher would have the patience!"
" What you're offering is, it seems to me, unrivaled in its value.

I've been playing guitar for many years. I've bought books, books with CDs, guitar magazines, private lessons, on-line lessons and nothing comes close to the variety and usefullness that's available on your website. The tutorials are "bite sized" and multi-media. I can't do much with a whole book of Jimi Hendrix tab. (I've tried.) I need a series of little steps - clear, slow, and well explained that I can replay as many times as I'd like.

Guitartricks is visual, audio, verbal, musical. I'll watch a lesson video a few times and just listen and get the feel... Then I'll watch some more and just watch the fingers. No guitar teacher would have the patience for the scrutiny and repetition I'm into with Guitartricks. Thanks for putting it together.

Rock on. "

-- Bryan from Eugene, OR U.S.A


"Now if I could just get some sleep!"
"Hey you guys rock!

I have really been struggling for about 10 months now, but in two nights with Guitar Tricks I already have a better grasp on my learning. Thank you very much.

Now if I could just quit practicing and get some sleep!"

-- Jared Foulger, Hurricane UT


"THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR FOR HELPING US REGULAR FOLKS IMPROVE AND MOST OF ALL HAVE FUN! AGAIN!!!"
" Truly this is the BEST LEARNING site I have ever seen...

I have never played metal and it took me a couple of days to get the rythym, etc down..but after a LOT of practice its starting to come along. Thanks for sharing, I really mean that. This is by far the best learning site i have ever had the pleasure to learn from.

...its only a matter of time before I get the hang of the timing for this kinda music. You have kinda opened a different door for me. I am looking forward to your new lesson...I have played around with a few of your lessons and they have made an impression on me. I just keep practicing and those doors and starting to open..

Thanks again, keep on rockin'"

-- David Ostrander, Bastrop, Texas, U.S.A.


"This site should be of immense help for thousands of people out there for whom playing guitar is such a big dream!"
" I just joined guitartricks as a full access member and I'm going through the Beginner's guide.

I first tried tuning the guitar and I was curious to check out your Guitar Tuning problems section to see if it has any extra help. And I find it amazing.

You wouldn't believe I've been tuning my guitar the usual way for endless years and this is the first time in my life I figured out that I'm actually tuning closer to the fourth fret like it says in the First part of your article.

The difference in sound is so subtle that I wouldn't have been able to identify if without the method you have given there!

I'm hoping I'd be able to achieve my dream of playing guitar with the lessons on your site!

Thank you very much for such a site and I hope you would continue to post high quality lessons to people like me for whom learning to play the guitar is a huge passion!

Cheers!"

-- Dayavanth Emmanuel, India


"My brother was better than me until I found your site!"
" Just wanted you to know that you site is just the one I have been looking for for years. I can play, but really need to move forward and had no real guidance. I love the site and am so excited about using it to its full potential.

I'm from the UK but living in Dubai in the UAE for more than 20 years, which has taken me away from folk nights and half decent music shops of the UK... My brother plays also and he lives in the UK. Thanks to technology we can generally share a few guitar sessions over the web cam!! Great stuff..... but we're just about at the same level.. well actually he was better than me until I found your site! LOL... now he's wondering where I get it from.. I'll keep him guessing for a while.. .but guess you will have another new member soon enough!!!

Many thanks."

-- Christine G., Dubai, UAE


"I can't believe what I am now doing!"
"Am a beginner and I just started with Guitar Tricks. I decided to start with an 8 lesson set from Lisa McCormick on Acoustic Fingerpicking. What an instructor. She made it so easy and natural. I can't believe what I'm now doing. Nothing short of fantastic.

I would recommend your service to anybody who is serious about playing and enjoying themselves doing it!"

-- Bill Bertalan


"I already have several favorite teachers!"
" I received a membership to Guitar Tricks for Christmas, and wanted to express my satisfaction with your website.

I am a beginner/novice, and particularly appreciate the ability to view different teachers and learn from their various styles.

I already have several favorite teachers, and I enjoy practicing their tutorials over and over (and over and over). This is one of the great aspects of your site, that I am able to repeat a lesson as often as necessary.

I also want to compliment you on the upgrade to your flash video player; it makes looping a section much easier, and the keyboard shortcuts are greatly appreciated.

I just wanted to let you know I think you are doing a great job, and I look forward to learning much more in the coming year."

-- Jean Martin, East Haddam, CT.


"FINALLY a very well developed curriculum!"
"Dear Mr. Schlegel,
I am 56 years old and have recently picked up the guitar again after picking at it while a High School student. Not much experience other than playing chords.

I decided to write this note in appreciation for your outstanding effort in the beginner course you led for GT and which I decided to take from the beginning. I thought that although I already play many chords without a problem that there could be a tip here and there that I could pick up. Man, WAS I WRONG, I ended up FINALLY coming across a very well developed curriculum, something I find lacking in many programs. I should know, I also have a Masters degree and taught both at college and secondary school. I know what a well develop curriculum looks like. I learned many things either overlooked or not known by many other instructors. I came across GT, unfortunately for me after spending quite a bit of money on other courses, books, CD's, and DVD's. The chapter on Barre Chords was specially enlightening to me as it did not stop at just showing you how to play an F and G chord but actually went through the construction of the chords and its application down the fretboard.

I normallly do not comment on most things, but you sir and GT deserve a very enthusiastic Welll Done!

Thank you both so much. I look forward in continuing following your lessons with enthusiasm."

-- Franklyn Suliveres, Sarasota, Florida U.S.A.



  Full Access
Full Access Guitar Lessons
Full access to Guitar Tricks Online Guitar Lessons costs just $14.95 per month. By full access, we mean full: everything we have from all 45 instructors for $14.95, no other fees.

I was recently on the phone with one of our new subscribers, Herb Watts from Redondo Beach, CA. Herb is a great guy, who has been playing guitar for years and is recently retired.

He couldn't believe how low the price was to gain complete access to everything on the Guitar Tricks site. He kept asking me what the catch was. When I finally convinced him there was no catch, he told me I was explaining it wrong.




Herb told me to tell it to you like this:

It's only $14.95/month

No kidding and that's it

The only strings attached are the ones on your guitar

Thanks, Herb!


Here are a couple of points I want to make clear. I know people are concerned about giving their personal information to websites:


We aim to provide great customer service and great lessons

Our free membership is not a gimmick, you will find it very useful, and it won't expire

We are very serious about the security of your data and your privacy

Our server is housed in a world-class data center, and monitored daily for security

We don't "share marketing data" with other companies

We won't spam you - ever



  Get More
Get More From Your Guitar

First things first: try our 24 free lessons

We ask that everyone start their Guitar Tricks membership with our basic free membership.

Once you are satisfied that our service is a great value for you, upgrade your Guitar Tricks account to our Full Access subscription.

When you have 45 instructors, you'll remember how much fun playing guitar can be!


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  Thank You
Thank You
Thank you for visiting Guitar Tricks Online Guitar Lessons. We hope you will find our service interesting, fun and helpful. We welcome feedback from our members and visitors. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact us.

 
Jon Broderick
Webmaster
GuitarTricks.com





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