Where do I start with this review? Guitar Tricks is the oldest video guitar lessons website on the net, online since 1998, when it took over an hour to download anything of size. Long-time guitarist Jon Broderick started the site struggling to find accurate tabs and good information about playing guitar.
Today Guitar Tricks is the mecca of guitar lesson sites with over 3,000 video lessons for $10.95 a month. The lessons are taught by absolute experts, professionals who put food on the table by playing guitar. I find the techniques and tricks they teach to be unique and rare.
You don’t find the same old, This is how to play the Am Pentatonic Scale, this is how to play the C chord… at Guitar Tricks. You find this with the absolute beginner material, but what impresses me with the site is that it’s so diverse in skill level (beginner to expert), and you can browse lessons based on both genre (so diverse there’s even Surf) and influences such as Eddie Van Halen for instance.
I have a drawer full of DVDs by all of the top pros like Frank Gambale, John Petrucci, and Michael Angelo Batio. All of which cost me roughly $500. Jon...