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Then again, the site does throw all these lessons in your face with no sense of continuity, or even a roadmap whatsoever to tell you where to go from where. What this can do is (as in my case) overwhelm you, and force you to put off sorting through all the material, and picking a "good" lesson to practice with, for another day. Days become weeks become months and you're still stuck with that Blues Primer 3 tutorial and some intermediate lessons that you dl'd two months ago.

I'd definitely recommend that you join the site as a full access member but only if you're really passionate about constantly finding new and challenging lessons to play. The fundamentals, music theory etc are all very good but can be found elsewhere too. The real highlight of the GT library is the sheer amount of practice you can give yourself.

At best, this site is a collection of superb, professional guitar lessons put together by real masters. At worst, though, it's a random assortment of licks, riffs etc that I wouldn't recommend to my 11-yr old nephew (if I had one) who needs to be walked through every single step of the learning process.

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Hey slasher, and everyone else,
We are working on this right now, I personally am working on organization of my section. The other instructors are doing the same thing, and we are all reshooting the videos in HD.

This is not the kind of thing that can be done overnight, of course it will take time to organize the lessons. We have also added curriculum courses to the site, and are working on expanding them. We want structured lesson plans also, but we are dealing with several audiences, so to speak.

We all have lessons to categorize, and we are all working towards the same goal. That goal is to make our site the best overall, and all of the instructors, and the staff are working together on this.

Being here for a while, you probably haven't noticed much of a change. There have been a lot of changes to the site, but nothing is going to jump out at you, yet.

I have seen what the competition has to offer, and they are yet to impress me. The lessons are inaccurate, and the techniques are very sloppy. The videos look great, outstanding quality, they can spit out a lesson in record time. Will it be accurate? Will they really teach you what they're doing? The one's I've seen didn't, one guy even belched during a lesson.

Once we organize what we already have, and continue to add lessons that are more structured, we will be the best of the best. Things are being done in different ways now, and it won't be long before every member sees much improvement. Keep in mind we are all musicians who have taught ourselves how to teach, remember we're still learning too. We appreciate the compliments you give, and we already know about all the problems you mentioned. We've been discussing them for months with eachother, and given time we will fix each one of them.

To answer marc's question, even with the problem of disorganization. You can certainly teach yourself to play guitar using only this site, and in various styles. You also get instructors that will answer any questions you may have regarding the lessons. I just wanted everyone to know we are making improvements, and I hope you all stick around to see the new GT.

JD