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Learn Guitar DVD vs Online Guitar Lessons

Learn Guitar DVD and Online Guitar Lessons are two of the best ways to learn how to play guitar aside from getting a guitar teacher for personal lessons.

The advantages that these two methods for learning guitar over personal guitar lessons are that they are far more cheaper and doesn’t require you to carve out a chunk of time in your schedule to commit to lessons.

Both Learn Guitar DVD and online guitar lessons are a good alternative especially with better quality videos and improved methods of teaching. It’s also the only way guitar professionals can reach a lot of people worldwide so you’re not limited to a local guitar teacher who may not really be that good. It gives people who have no access to guitar professionals to finally have a connection.

So which one should you go for? Learn Guitar DVD or Online Guitar Lessons? Both can definitely improve your guitar playing to levels that you never even imagined if you practice what is being taught. There are different aspects of each method of learning that can be compared namely cost, convenience, effectiveness, fun factor and support among others. Let’s go through them one by one.

Cost

Online guitar lessons can be cheaper for if they don’t charge you a monthly subscription. But for the same amount of content, the Learn Guitar DVDs and Online Guitar Lessons are similar. A good Learn Guitar DVD set can cost around $200 while an Online Guitar Lessons program with similar amount of content can cost around $197.  Ok, it is a little bit cheaper if you consider shipping and handling but you get a package in the mail with a set of DVDs and if you have a slow internet connection getting online guitar lessons may not be a good idea and you end up waiting more for the download than waiting for the mail in total.

Convenience

Most Online Guitar Lessons allow you to access the website from any computer you want provided that you key in the right password for the website and most even allow you to download the lessons so don’t have to be online all the time. Unless you burned the lesson on a DVD you need a computer to use Online Guitar Lessons and I you don’t have a large screen, it could be a problem see what the instructor is teaching. With Learn Guitar DVDs you can also use it on your computer if you have a DVD drive or you can use a DVD player (which I assume is quite common these days) and view the lessons on a normally larger screen than the computer.

The advantage Online Guitar Lessons have over Learn Guitar DVD is that you have to wait for it in the mail. It can take up to a few weeks if you live far away from the source of the DVD. With Online Guitar Lessons you can access your first lesson almost instantly if you have a fast internet connection. Some Online Guitar Lessons do download quite fast even without broadband connection but may sacrifice on the size of the video so you might have to squint a little.

Effectiveness

Learn Guitar DVDs as the name suggest have DVD quality videos to teach you how to play guitar and this is important in some ways because studies suggest that a quality video tend to make you stay more interested in what you are watching than videos that are of lower quality. Because of this most Learn Guitar DVDs are more effective than Online Guitar Lessons. This assumes that teachings on the Learn Guitar DVD and Online Guitar Lessons are of the same quality.

Furthermore, user experience show that you tend to have more focus when you use a Learn Guitar DVD as opposed to Online Guitar Lessons probably because you don’t have a browser, email, messenger or anything on the computer that might distract you. By the way, a recent study show that multitasking (that’s what you tend to do when you’re on the computer) lowers the IQ more than smoking pot. So you make less progress in your guitar skills and you spend more time on it just because you didn’t have focus.

Volume

The number of lessons on a Learn Guitar DVD compared to Online Guitar Lessons is similar in general. Online Guitar Lessons that charge a monthly subscription fee on the other hand tend to have a very large library and new ones are continually added. The question is raised whether you really need that many lessons. It’s the quality of the lessons that count more than the quantity and the lessons in a good quality Learn Guitar DVD are usually all that you need to become a good player.

Customer Support

Not all Learn Guitar DVDs offer online and phone customer support especially if you don’t buy the ones available online and even if you do buy them online some of them still may not offer customer support in case you have any questions about the lessons. Since Online Guitar Lessons are online almost all of them have customer support that answers your questions on the lessons. The best Learn Guitar DVD on the internet however does offer customer support.

Conclusion

Waiting for the DVD to arrive in the mail can be such a bummer even if it only takes a few days. Most people rather get what they paid for instantly. But if you get a really good Learn Guitar DVD, it really is worth the wait not just because of the excitement of receiving a package in the mail but also because Learn Guitar DVDs can be so much fun to use especially if you have a large screen and the effectiveness of the lessons are unrivalled by Online Guitar Lessons. Maybe it’s just a personal preference but there sure are a lot of people with good experience with Learn Guitar DVDs.