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