Gibsons ® Learn and Master Guitar Review - Best DVD Guitar Course Ever?

Of all the guitar lessons reviewed on this site, Learn and Master Guitar is simply the most effective, comprehensive and well-produced DVD guitar course we've come across. All of this combines to make Gibson's Learn and Master Guitar our #1 choice for DVD guitar lessons. - Gibson Learn and Master Guitar Review - OnlineLessonReviews.com

This is the ultimate DIY learn guitar program. It's got professional instruction from a excellent instructor, high production values, and good pacing. Great community support and interactive exercises and jam-along CDs make the process fun. - OnlineGuitarCourses.com

Enter Gibson's Learn & Master Guitar. This full-featured curriculum was developed by Gibson Guitar's and Legacy Learning System, an online leader in video education. Their award-winning courses cover a wide variety of topics from learning piano, to ballroom dancing, to photography. The course instructor is Steve Krenz, a Nashville studio musician who has a warm and inviting style of teaching.

What's included:
- 20 DVDs
- 5 Jam Along CDs
- 100+ Page Workbook
- Access to an online help community

The 20 DVDs

Everyone out there that's tried learning guitar through poor quality online videos will be glad to hear that Learn & Master Guitar was filmed in High Definition. Personally, I think all learning videos should be shot in Hi-Def, but with the guitar it's especially important since being able to see frets and individual strings clearly is essential.

The course assumes no prior background in music and walks you through basic music theory, how to read music, tabs, how to play your first chords, strumming patterns, and picking before moving into more advanced theory, slides, tapping, genre, playing and much more. The course has so much content that you will probably work through the course over the period of 1 or more years.

If you have kids that want to learn guitar, they also have a Gibson Learn and Master Guitar Homeschool Edition, which adds supplemental course material in a teacher's guide and allows parents who may not even play guitar to help their kids realize their dreams.

The Jam-Along CDs

Another great feature of this course is the 5 jam along CDs which really succeed in making practice a lot more fun. I mean come on... playing alongside a studio-quality band in your practice time... how is that not totally cool?

The Workbook

The lesson-companion book you get contains 106 pages, and is illustrated with black/white photographs. The music and notation from each video lesson is included as well as important supplemental lesson material.

The Community Website

The online support community website for this course was just re-launched at the beginning of November, 2010. This is the THE place where students of Legacy Learning courses post specific lesson questions, give updates on their progress, and divulge guitar-playing tips and tricks. Members of the community as well as staff of Legacy Learning Systems including instructor Steve Krenz are typically quite helpful and responsive to member questions. Ongoing support of this nature is a very valuable component of the Gibson Learn & Master Guitar course.

Rating: ♫♫♫♫♪ (9/10)

The one disadvantage that this course has is the $149 price-tag, which may be enough to scare off those that aren't terribly serious about taking up the guitar. The truth is that private guitar lessons often end up being up to 10X more expensive than this course, and aren't even as effective as a curriculum like this which you can take at your own pace and in the comfort of your own home.

Recommendation: I haven't seen any other DVD guitar course with such easy to follow, high-quality lessons paired with phenomenal production values as Learn and Master Guitar. Do yourself a favor and check them out today.