Brand New Player

Hello! I am a brand new guitar player and have been looking around for something to really teach me how to play. I started playing yesterday, and bought rocksmith along with my electric guitar. Rocksmith for some reason just didn't feel right, even though I only spent a couple hours with it, I didn't feel like I was truly learning anything since it is more of a game than anything else. How is the introductory courses here? I want to really learn guitar, not just learn how to play specific songs.

Hi Sloan and welcome.

This course will give you everything you need to be able to play the guitar. It really is very good.

If you find it is not for you, you can cancel your subscription any time.

I think you should give it a try.

There are no fast solutions to learning the guitar. You must put in the practice time. Your finger tips will hurt at first but will harden up. The muscles for your fingers will develope but this all takes time. You can't rush it.

This course takes you through very gently and the instructers are very good.

If you want to learn to play the guitar then this course is probably one of the best out there and you will learn all that you need.

Regards

Joe

I have been playing for about a month. I tried to save money by buying a one time $50 program and drop out before the free period ended, but I found that the lessons went along well for a few lessons and then took a giant step that I couldn't get even after several days of practice. Result: I am back to Lisa because she has taught a lot of beginners and know how to lead in small steps.

Originally Posted by: sloananderson97

Hello! I am a brand new guitar player and have been looking around for something to really teach me how to play. I started playing yesterday, and bought rocksmith along with my electric guitar. Rocksmith for some reason just didn't feel right, even though I only spent a couple hours with it, I didn't feel like I was truly learning anything since it is more of a game than anything else. How is the introductory courses here? I want to really learn guitar, not just learn how to play specific songs.

Hey Sloan

As a new player myself (started this year) I have found this course to be very good.

I joined to on the basis of lack of affordable teachers in my area, being time poor and needing flexibility in time allocated to learning guitar, and really wanting to learn the basics after failing to try and teach myself out of a book alone in a room. Having the person in front of me seems to give me a false sense of personal contact with a teacher which is much less taxing than staring at books in my opinion.

I have just finished the Fund 1 course and am super comfortable with understanding enough to learn countless sing alongs for family and friend occasions without much hassel.

Have started Fund 2 course, my take on it so far, is its starting to reveal the remainder of the fretboard, which is pretty exciting because its always been a great mistery to me.

So yeah, in short, my take is do it, at the very least I reckon its providing me with decent base to extend from. In time I would like to match sheet music to the mystery of the fretboard, which i'm sure will take plenty of time

Welcome to GT.

THERE'S SO MUCH FOR YOU TO LEARN. I WOULD START WITH GT core lessons on rock or blues or country point is that's the best place for you to start,and in between pickup some easy songs to play there's tons of them.

I wouldn't recommend bouncing our of your comfort zone with the songs.

Take your time,and good luck