u/Danwinzz

Hi everyone,

I have been trying to teach myself Fingerstyle lately, and was trying to figure out who the best teachers were online.

I searched through various threads on here, and visited each YouTube channel and website and I think I have narrowed down the best options.

The Best Fingerstyle Song Teachers are:

• Sky Guitar
• GuitarZero2Hero
• GuitarLessons365
• Kenneth Acoustic

The Best Fingerstyle FREE Lessons are:

• Your Guitar Academy
• Justin Guitar

The Best Fingerstyle PAID Lessons are:

• Tommy Emmanuel (TrueFire)
• David Hamburger (TrueFire)
• Paul Davids (Acoustic Adventure)
• Six String Fingerpicking

Honourable mentions were:

• Active Melody (Advanced Option)
• Mark Hanson (Book Option)
• LickNRiff/Gareth Evans (Slightly outdated but still helpful)

Feel free to check out the video for the full context review and why I think these are the top options.

I'd love to hear feedback, if you find this helpful, please share with people when they ask where they should learn Fingerstyle

Thanks everyone <3

Hi Everyone,

If you've been on this sub or the guitarlessons sub long enough you've probably seen alot of the same guitar teacher names thrown around (and for good reason): Justin Guitar, Andy Guitar, Marty Music, Paul Davids, GuitarZero2Hero etc.

But in an attempt to get out of the echo chamber, I'd like to highlight some of the more underrated ones.

So..

Who are the most UNDERRATED online guitar teachers?

The ones that aren't mentioned often. I'd love to hear some suggestions and if you can, expand WHY they're underrated.

Some that come to mind to me:

• Marin Music
• Lauren Batemen
• Brandon D'eon
• Active Melody
• Signals Music Studio

I encourage everyone to not just comment and leave but go through some of the other comments and upvote the ones you agree with. Helps give them some more shine/exposure!

Hi everyone,

I have a question for "self-taught" guitarists. Whether you're learning online through youtube or just trying to teach yourself by ear.

How do you know if you're learning things "correctly"?

If there's no in-person teacher to correct you in the moment, how do you know if you're learning correctly or not creating any bad habits?

I'm curious to hear your thoughts/tips.

Hi everyone,

Obviously its probably asking for a lot to find good free structured lessons specifically for fingerstyle but since by some miracle Justin Guitar exists, I thought I'd ask if there is an equivalent free structured course but just for fingerstyle?

Justin Guitars course is fantastic for all around learning but is there one just for fingerstyle anywhere?

Like a structured course from the absolute basics? Not just Song Tuorials as I know youtube has a million of those.

And if not, what's the next best thing if you didn't want to spend money?

Hi everyone,

Obviously its probably asking for a lot to find good free structured lessons specifically for fingerstyle but since by some miracle Justin Guitar exists, I thought I'd ask if there is an equivalent free structured course but just for fingerstyle?

Justin Guitars course is fantastic for all around learning but is there one just for fingerstyle anywhere?

Like a structured course from the absolute basics? Not just Song Tuorials as I know youtube has a million of those.

And if not, what's the next best thing if you didn't want to spend money?

Hi everyone,

I've been trying to teach myself guitar for about a year and a half now and I have moments where I just feel burned out on Guitar Lessons and learning something new.

So I asked around the community for the best way to deal with Guitar Lesson burnout, and we were able to come up with 5 remedies.

I discuss why we feel burned out on lessons, if you even need more lessons, and then share the top 5 ways to deal with it.

Can checkout the video for more context but essentially the top 5 best ways to deal with it are:

1. Make playing guitar apart of your routine
2. Jam with others or perform publically
3. Try writing Music
4. Learn songs slightly outside your reach
5. Take a break from lessons and do what's most fun for you on guitar

Let me know what you think!

Hope it helps.

Hi guys,

As a self-taught guitarist trying to teach myself online through free online resources, I always wondered what traditional in-person lessons would be like?

I know I can just get an in-person lesson and find out but I'm curious to hear from the community what to expect from a good teacher.

What's a typical lesson look like?

Do they put you on a curriculum? Or do they just ask you what do you want to learn and then just show you that?

How long is a lesson? How often do you go?

Is it different as a beginner vs as a intermediate/advanced guitarist?

Curious to hear what typical in-person lessons look like and what makes a "good" guitar teacher versus a bad one.

Basically the question in title.

What were the biggest changes you noticed in your playing and understanding when you finished "Absolutely Understand Guitar?".

Hi everyone,

Back again to show a beginner perspective on Improvising on the Guitar.

I remember when I first started playing last year, being in awe with people who can noodle around all over the guitar and each note sounds great with each other.

Now 1 year later, I surprised myself with being able to improvise over backing tracks to my favourite songs.

In the video I explain what helped me, how they helped me and show an attempt to improvise without using a scale I know, to try and answer the question if a Beginner can Improvise and sound good?

Hope you find it helpful. Let me know if you have any questions.

-Dan

Hi everyone,

I'm a content creator and I'm looking into answering the question "how long does it take to become an average guitarist".

But to answer that, I first need answer the question:

What is an average Guitarist?

Of course you could argue its a matter of perspective. Like its common to say guitarists like Kurt Cobain or Noel Gallagher were nothing special on guitar at a technical level but people of course consider their songwriting with the guitar as anything but average.

So let me hear some opinions, how good do you think an average guitarist is?

To me I picture the guy who brings a guitar to the campfire/cottage who knows all the open chords. There's got to be millions of those types of players.

What do you think? I'm not trying to come up with a consensus, just for different opinions on what "average" means to you?

Edit 1: Yes of course it doesn't matter on the grand scheme of things. Its just a friendly topic of conversation I can use to encourage non-players to pickup an instrument

Edit 2: Attempted to answer what I would define as a "guitarist". I'd say: I'd define a "guitarist" as someone who can pickup a guitar and make music. Whether its performing easy songs or easy riffs or able to improvise notes that sound good together. My reasoning is because we call people who just started a week ago as "beginner" or "novice" guitarists, so with that designation, they must be "guitarists".