Originally Posted by: tatzelwurm109
A word about instructional resources. I searched YT and alot of other guitar instruction websites and GT is the one I've settled on. The tutorials are well-paced, clearly delivered, and the instructors are very professional. What I found on YT and many other sites are a hodge-podge of song and riff collections that have no structure and many of them are just plain wrong. I recently watched a video purporting to competently cover the solo from The Beatle's "Nowhere Man" on an Epiphone Les Paul and that guy wasn't even close. He didn't even realize that it's an arpeggio-based solo using nothing but augmented and suspended chords- trying to play it as a series of scale riffs. At the risk of sounding overly-critical and condescending, he should've searched for videos of George Harrison playing it before splashing his ignorance across the world on YT. I see this kind of intellectual pollution on YT on an all-too-frequent basis.

I can kind of agree with this. When trying to learn, I used YouTube a lot and I just felt like I never learned anything and often got overwhelmed, bored, or just frustrated by it time and time again. YouTube is a great resource for little things but when trying to learn guitar it just left me wanting more.

So far GuitarTricks really feels like it has the right structure for me. For $20 a month it really isn't bad at all. Significantly cheaper than an instructor and the videos don't seem to cover anything unnecessary. I hate long winded videos where you can't just watch, play, repeat if you need to see it again. When people talk too much or try to cram too much into each video it leaves me having to pause and play then go back and find where I left off. Coming back to it a day later is even harder.