Here is my suggestion:
Hi, love guitar tricks by far more than jam play and any other sight I have tried. The biggest draw for me is the quality combined with the structure. I have been meticulously following the core programs and have completed 1 and 2 and have now been working on blues 1. Here is my only complaint, but for someone like me looking for the structure, it's a pretty big one. I think somewhere in each lesson should be a note, symbol, or instruction explaining exactly what Guitar Tricks or the instructor think you should be able to accomplish on that lesson before moving on. Christopher seemed to be better about this in the core portion, but Anders, not as much. Great instructor and still love him. I have been hung up on several sections. One part was examples of the different types of blues. There was the tab and everything just like the other lessons, but it seemed really hard. I finally wrote him and he responded back that "that part was only intended to demonstrate what you will be able to do later and different styles" not that you should be able to play that yet, but I spent days on end in utter frustration. Now I am on Lesson 5: "The most important notes" and he says "I'm going to show you some super simple (uh ha) lead and you can see it's just the same notes you have been practicing in the blues scale", so it's one minute and 35 seconds of lead with some very, very fast sections (some full sections have 1/16 notes which at 85 bpm is around 340 actual counted notes per minute and in the same run some part count 3 to the one beat and then in the same run switches to 4 to one beat, how do you count that or set a metronome to try and do that?), no way that is super simple. There is tab and a backing track and you should be able to play at 85 bpm, but I have tried everything to learn this and can't get past the first 8 beats. The counting the actual notes is almost impossible from the tab for this level and there is no way to slow down the video or backing track to try it that way. So I get having tab for people who want to give it a shot, but is this seriously recommending that I should be able to play that whole lead at that speed to feel like I have passed this section, or is he again, just showing us what we will be able to do someday if we keep following the lessons and practicing. So to wrap it up, a lot of people come here for the structure as a selling point, you emphasize the structure as one of your strong selling points; I really think it would make the whole site and experience a perfect 10 (not joking on that part at all) if in each section it simply stated what you recommend the student be able to do (like passing a test) before moving on to the next section. You should be able to play the tab at the recommended bpm before moving on or you should be able to feel comfortable playing this section with the backing track before moving on to the next section and in cases where it's just a demo of things to come, then state that so no one is stuck trying to learn something well beyond their skill level for that point. Everything else for me is literally perfect, that one improvement would just ace it for me.
