TheGuitarLesson.com is an online video guitar lesson website, that caters mainly to beginner guitarists. There are 12 free video guitar lessons for beginners, which will teach you basic guitar skills and techniques. If you finish this 12 part lesson set, you should be comfortable with most guitar techniques. The website also offers loads of video guitar lessons on popular songs, which is great since learning through playing songs is a very motivating method of teaching the guitar. The guitar teacher at the website is Tom Fontana, who has a very personal and motivating way of teaching the guitar.
TheGuitarLesson Quick Review Sheet
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Ease of use - 10/1010/10
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Quality - 9/109/10
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Support - 8/108/10
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Price - 8/108/10
Summary
TheGuitarLesson.com is an online video lesson site aimed at beginner players. It does not have thousands of lessons, but it has something more valuable to beginners. Animated tablature during the videos, which is the biggest advantage of this site over the others.
The best and most impressive feature we found during our review of TheGuitarLesson.com, is that every single video guitar lesson contains on-screen animated tabs and chord charts. TheGuitarLesson.com is the only website we’ve reviewed that has animated tabs, therefore deserves special emphasis. The on-screen info you get during the videos make learning the songs very easy, since you don’t need to press rewind that often.
(Updated on Dec/17/2024)
You can presently access all of the video guitar lessons on songs for as low as $1!
TheGuitarLesson.com also offers well-written, and very digestible written information on every aspect of guitar theory for those who are interested. The info given is aimed at beginners, so you won’t find very advanced theoretical information, rather the most important things a beginner would need to get to a strong intermediate level.
During our review of TheGuitarLesson.com, we also found an online shop filled with guitar and related products for beginners, as well as a large Guitar Pro tabs database (which is totally free to use and download the tabs).
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What you’ll learn at TheGuitarLesson.com:
The website is aimed at beginner guitarists, and offers detailed video tutorials on learning all guitar techniques you’ll need to advance to a strong intermediate player. There are 10 beginner video lessons on techniques, and loads of lessons on popular songs. The aim of the website is to teach you the guitar through playing songs, which it achieves very well through its high quality video tutorials, all of which contain on-screen animated tabs, scale and chord charts, making the lessons very easy to follow.
You’ll also learn about various aspects of guitar theory, which is a requirement of advancing as a guitarist.
Ease of Use
TheGuitarLesson.com is very easy to navigate. The video lessons themselves are very easy to follow, thanks to the animated tablature, and Tom Fontanas step-by-step method of teaching.
What You Get with TheGuitarLesson.com
The website offers 2 levels of membership, the free basic membership, and the premium membership. The value added in the premium membership is that you get access to the video lessons on songs, which is the main feature of the site.
Basic Membership
- 10 video lessons teaching basic techniques
- Info on guitar techniques
- Info on guitar theory
- Guitar Pro tabs database with 50,000 Guitar Pro song files
- Jam tracks
- Online guitar tuner
Premium Membership
As a premium member, you also get access to the following:
- Video guitar lessons on songs
- The backing tracks to these songs
- The tablature you see on the videos
- 30% discount on the Guitar Pro software
- Premium guitar tuner software
- Personal support from Tom Fontana
Pros:
- Step-by-step video lessons
- On-screen animated tabs
- Great website for beginners
- Large GP tabs database
- Tom Fontana personal support
Cons:
- If you are already at an intermediate level, some of the video lessons will probably be too easy for
Support Services of TheGuitarLesson.com
Email support, maximum 24 hour response time. All the letters we wrote were answered by Tom Fontana himself, showing that he is really behind the website.
Setup/Compatibility
Videos require flash to be installed on your PC, jam tracks are MP3, tabs to the songs taught are PDF.
Price
- $1 – Trial membership – Sale Alert!
- $9 – Monthly membership
- $27 – 4 month membership
- $54 – 9 month membership
Conclusion
To conclude our TheGuitarLesson.com review, we can say that this website, created and maintained by Tom Fontana, is a very good website for beginners who want to learn how to play the guitar. The most impressive feature of the site is that all video lessons contain on-screen animated tablature, which makes the lessons very easy to follow for beginners who are just starting out. The variety of songs you can learn on the website is also great. The lessons are very detailed, and Tom does a good job in keeping the student motivated.
TheGuitarLesson.com is a great website for beginner guitarists. The site focuses on teaching through playing popular songs, with all video lessons containing animated tabs, making it ideal for beginners.
Tom is hot 🙂
I want groupies as well 😀
Learn the guitar, and they shall come 😀
Ok guys, get serious for a sec. I’ve been looking at the reviews on this site, and theguitarlesson.com lessons seem to be the cheapest, and the pics look pretty cool as well. I’ve had my guitar for about 3 years now, cant play at all, but wanna retry again. I like how this site has the animations, and how it teaches a lot of songs. So should I, or should I not??
Hi Crespo, as you can see from the above review, TheGuitarLesson.com is made specifically for beginners who want to learn to play songs quickly. The animated tabs are very impressive, this is the only online lesson site that has it, which really makes it easier for beginners.
We talked to Tom Fontana a while back, he’s a legitimate guy who really cares about the website and his students. I would suggest you try it, you have nothing to lose.
Thanks 🙂
I have only been playing six months and subscribed to a few other sites. I then found the Guitarlesson.com I have progressed really well now because the Toms teaching methods suited me.
Tom answered all my emails personally and really quickly, giving advice on questions I had asked and he even sent me a photo of hand position where I was having problems.
I recommend this site highly, 100% value for money.
Why thank you Mark, it is my pleasure to help 🙂
Best,
Tom