GuitarTricks Review 2025

I’ve been using GuitarTricks for years, so I have lots of experience with their lessons and have seen them develop their offering. Most other GuitarTricks reviews just state the obvious, but I’ll share things here that you won’t read anywhere else, since I actually use the site. I am a guitar player of 25+ years…

Steve Krenz – Learn and Master Guitar

Steve Krenz of the Learn and Master Guitar DVD course is a professional guitarist and instructor with a wealth of knowledge about playing and teaching the guitar. His courses Learn and Master Guitar, and the new Learn and Master Spotlight Series: Blues Guitar convey nothing but pure professionalism, and a love for teaching. Disclosure: The…

25 Best Guitar Websites

I would estimate that there are literally hundreds of thousands of guitar-related websites on the Internet, with a few hundred popping up every month. While many of these sites will have something valuable to add, I tried to collect the best guitar websites, the ones that I think will be most useful to my guitar…

Kirk Hammett Guitar Blunder

Kirk Hammett of Metallica is rated as being #11 on the Rolling Stones magazine list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, but you know what, he’s only human, just like the rest of us 🙂 We all have our bad days, and so does Kirk: Oh yeah, check out our Metallica guitar lessons…

Easy Guitar Solos

54 easy guitar solos for beginner (and intermediate) guitarists

When you start learning to play guitar, you envision yourself shredding like a rock star in 2 weeks, only to realize that it’s not as easy as it looks. But fear not! Once you have the basics down, there are plenty of easy to play guitar solos from famous songs you can learn. Songs by…

Guitar String Name Mnemonic Acronyms

Learning the names of the guitar strings in standard tuning is one of those things that seems simple until you actually try to remember them. E-A-D-G-B-E? Which one was which again? This is exactly why people started making up memory aids to remember the string names. These are called mnemonic acronyms. So instead of struggling…

Guitar Tricks vs. Jamplay – What WAS the difference?

There were 2 really big online video guitar lesson websites up till 2022: Jamplay.com and GuitarTricks.com. Deciding on which one to join was tricky since they were both very similar in so many respects. In 2023 however, Jamplay was integrated into Truefire.com, so ever since, there is no separate Jamplay.com to speak of. All of Jamplay’s video…

Working Guitar Tricks Coupons & Discounts – Save $217

GuitarTricks.com is a leading online guitar lesson website around since the beginning of the Internet, with thousands of lessons for all levels and genres. It’s a great place to learn guitar for an acceptable fee… But you can now get the lessons for even less! What type of discounts & coupons does GuitarTricks offer? In…

Blues Guitar Spotlight from Learn and Master Guitar

I just read a review of Blues Guitar Spotlight from the makers of Learn and Master Guitar, and decided to write a post about it since I know from experience that Legacy Systems (the makers of the courses) always brings out very high quality educational material. They just released a new DVD based lesson package…

10 Common Beginner Guitar Student Question and Answers

If you’ve ever contacted me on any guitar-related question, you’ll know that I answer all of my students’ questions personally. I love doing so for people learning from our beginner guitar lessons. There are a lot of typical questions and problems that my online students encounter, so I thought a post on these would be…