Before You Take Blues Guitar Lessons - Read This

By Scott Davids

You are ready to start some blues guitar lessons and you just don't know where to start. You have five choices that may be of available to you.

1. You can go to a local music academy that is offering lessons.
2. You do an at home study
3. You can do an online blues guitar lesson course
4. You can take private lessons
5. You can ask a friend to teach you

Lets take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of taking a online blues guitar lesson course. First of all it. is very possible to learn how to play the blues guitar from the internet very well. Actually there's isn't much that you can't learn from the net these days.

You are going to be surprised at what you find is available to you, when you start searching the net for a study course. Not only will you finds tons of courses, you are going to come across several different software packages as well. The dilemma now will be what's good and what isn't good.

Most often the software will be combined with the lessons. The price range on the average may be somewhere between $400. to as low as $25. There may be a few higher or lower than this. In fact there are some free courses being offered as well. You may want to check these out first. You could learn the basics on this, and then maybe go onto one of the more extensive paying ones. Some of the materials you will receive for your course may be as follows:

Ebooks:

Some will be excellent, and teach you everything you are going to possibly need to know. Others will give you the very basics and expect you to buy other books to supplement this one.

CDS:

Allow you to visualize what you are being instructed in. Its much easier to learn if you can see what is being said as well.

Jam Tracks:

Music that you can play along with to test your progress. Many of them will be at varying levels of difficulty to go hand in hand with your progression. These are a wonderful teaching aid, because it allows you to practice with virtual musicians. You may not have that opportunity to take advantage of plus it helps you to build your confidence.

You will find a wide variety of these aids in different software packages. In most cases the more money you pay the more material you are going to get. Part of your decision will depend on which aids you prefer to learn with and which do you think would be most beneficial for. If you come across a few blues guitar lessons programs that really interest you then search the net for any reviews on them. This is a great way to get some feedback on them. Just be sure the reviews are not biased and possibly written by the company themselves. If you see a review is really linking back to the product then be somewhat cautious of their opinion. Then on the other hand ,they make so highly of the course that they honestly want to promote it.

About the Author:

Zack R is the founder of 50 Blues Studios. If you are a blues musician, find out how blues backing tracks will improve your blues guitar playing skills. Download free blues backing tracks.