Use Youtube As A Free Online Guitar Tutor
The internet is a wonderful and magnificent thing. Young people today, growing up with easy access to the world’s knowledge via the internet, have no idea of how lucky they are.
I started playing in the 1970s with the famous Bert Weedon’s ‘Play in a Day’ book. I could never afford guitar lessons so I would take every opportunity to obsessively study the playing techniques and styles of every guitarist I managed to see.
Learning to play guitar today has been transformed by technology. DVDs, for example, can be played over and over again, unlike face to face guitar lessons. And the internet provides an ideal platform for the presentation of guitar tutorials.
There are loads of guitar playing teaching websites but by far the best for me is Youtube. You can find instructional videos on everything from choosing guitars to making your own electric guitar. There are plenty of videos that will help those who are just starting out with the guitar and lots more that are ideal for people like me, who’ve been playing for a while but want to learn more techniques and tunes.
Learning new guitar licks and techniques has become one of my favourite pass times. If it’s raining outside then you will find me scouring Youtube videos for blues tunes to learn and techniques to master. I think that my guitar playing skills have improved more in the past five years, thanks to Youtube, than it did in the prior twenty years.
Another useful feature is that the system is interactive. When I find a video that I like I will always make it one of my favourites and maybe drop the performer a comment to say thanks. I will often ask a question or two and the video maker will generally come back with a helpful answer. Its a bit like having any number of great guitarists as personal guitar playing consultants.
And Youtube is not just good for aspiring guitarists. You can find tutorials and examples of people playing a whole range of weird and wonderful musical instruments. In fact there are some great examples of people playing vegetables and even furniture.
I can’t help but feel a little envious of the young people who are just starting to learn today. I like to think that if I had been born at a time when the internet was available, providing this wealth of incredibly valuable instruction and guidance, who knows, I might have become the next Jimi Hendrix or Stevie Ray Vaughan.
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