Do you want to play the guitar but don't know how? You can enroll in classes in music schools, but that can be expensive. If you are on a budget, you can purchase guitar lessons on DVDs. Here are some companies that offer DVDs with instructional videos on how to learn to play the guitar.

  1. Learn & Master Guitar with Steve Krenz - Produced by Legacy Learning Systems, this DVD guitar training got a lot of great reviews and was given a silver award for the Player's Choice Awards in 2008 by the Acoustic Guitar Magazine. This home instruction course consists of 20 DVDs, 5 Jam-Along CDs, a 100+ page lesson book, and free access to their online student support site. The DVDs cover foundation techniques, basic and advanced chords, advanced electric techniques, mastering the entire instrument, and a lot more. Instructor Steve Krenz has a degree in music. He has performed with Grammy Award artists like Israel Houghton, Donna Summer, Tommy Sims, and The Fifth Dimension, with platinum country music artists like Bryan White, Darlene Zschech & Hillsong, Jonathan Pierce, and the Katinas and with Don Moen and GMAKenoly. You can order the Learn & Master Guitar DVDs from learnandmaster.com.
  2. Amazing Guitar Secrets - Produced by Dan Denley, these easy guitar lessons will let you learn how to play all the scales in different positions and in all the keys, how to play the chords and create progressions, how to create your very own solos from nothing, how to play left handed electric guitars, and how to play almost any song that you hear. It includes 2 DVDs, 1 CD, a 400+ page Amazing Guitar secrets book, and bonus items for a total value of $160. You can order the DVDs at amazingguitarsecrets.com.
  3. Play Guitar - Produced by Learn Guitar and Bass, their guitar lessons will let you learn folk, rock, alternative, punk, grunge, and blues guitar styles. You'll also learn how to play guitar by ear, learn all the chords, and learn the tricks that rock legends use. It includes video footage of professional guitar artists and backing tracks that you can play along with, 52 guitar lessons, and photographs of fingers on fret board. You have the option to download the lessons online or order a CD. You can order the guitar lessons at guitarandbass.com.au.
  4. Lead Guitar Secrets - Also produced by Dan Denley, this guitar lesson is a step-by-step method for mastering lead guitar. It includes 4 DVDs with 7 hours of video instructions. It outlines everything from building finger strength, agility, and picking speed, to 3-string box positions of pentatonic scale, from intro to major scale and the seven modes to solo lick, and learning solos. You can order the DVDs at amazingguitarsecrets.com.
  5. Essential Guitar Skills Bundle - Produced by Gigajam, this guitar lesson includes Gigajam Essential Guitar Skills Levels 1 to 3. It covers everything from beginner electric guitar lessons like playing rock chords, to developing your rock chord library, from introduction to sixteenth notes to introduction to lead guitar playing, and guitar methods and techniques from hammering on and pulling off to developing improvisation of pentatonic or blues. You can order the CDs at gigajam.com.

Learning the guitar can be a very daunting task. You need to have the patience in learning the guitar course, and of course, a good teacher. And as they always say, practice makes perfect.

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