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The courses are all free, although the site does encourage donations. As with some of the paid music courses I’ve used, the Justin Guitar site makes it easy to save lessons and mark them as completed. (He also offers a newer version of the same course, which gets into a lot more detail about the basics, but we prefer the original.) Justin Guitar offers enough lessons for a couple of years of steady study, eventually getting into such exotica as Jimi Hendrix licks and jazz bass lines. Start with the “classic” beginner guitar course, which briskly walks you through the basics and will have you strumming a two-chord jam in half an hour.

His videos are hosted through YouTube, but the website makes it easier to access the lessons in order.

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Our favorite choice for free online guitar instruction is Justin Guitar, the website of instructor Justin Sandercoe. Some sites and channels devote many lessons to fundamentals, such as holding and fingering the instrument, but now more than ever we think you deserve to get to the fun stuff as soon as possible.

When considering sites and channels to recommend, we looked for ones with engaging content that would make learning fun and quickly get you playing some simple songs. The Alvarez RU22C is the best ukulele for beginners because it has great sound and styling, and its concert-size body is good for kids and adults alike. Anything reasonably functional is good enough for a beginner, whether it’s an old hand-me-down from a relative or a pick from our guide: Of course, to begin you’ll need a guitar or ukulele, if you don’t already have one. How often you practice and how much you challenge yourself will usually matter more than your choice of online instructor.

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There are innumerable websites and YouTube channels that offer guitar and uke instruction, some of them making absurd promises that you’ll “play like a pro in a week.” But for the most part, all of these instructors teach the same basic chords, notes, and techniques. When I took up the notoriously difficult double bass after years of noodling on other instruments, I relied for the first nine months entirely on lessons from DiscoverDoubleBass-and within a year, I found myself playing jazz gigs. Or, to put it more simply, there’s nothing like a little more pluck to get you through a crisis.įor the time being, working with a teacher in person is not an option, but you can make lots of progress on your own. And the sense of accomplishment you’ll feel as your favorite tunes emerge from your fingertips is one of the most gratifying learning experiences we know of. The focus that’s required for practicing will wipe the day’s events from your mind, at least for a while. We’re here to help, with a few recommendations for online instructors we’ve used and enjoyed.Ĭontrary to what many ads for online music instruction will tell you, the important thing is not how you start but merely that you do start-especially now, since we could all use a little self-administered music therapy. But the confusing array of options for online guitar and ukulele instruction may prove to be more of a deterrent than an encouragement. Thanks to the Internet, we also have the resources to learn to play at home-for free. And many of us also own a guitar or ukulele that we bought on impulse, promising ourselves we’d learn to play when we had the time. Many of us now have more downtime than we’ve had in years.

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