If you’re on the lookout for a cheap, and extremely valuable online guitar course, the guys over at Jamorama have one of the best classes out there that I’ve had the chance to try out. If you’re like most newbies, you’re probably trying to learn everything about the guitar, on your own. The problem is that a lot of the information out there can be boring, confusing, and outdated. Even if you wanted to take the initiative to pay for classes, it can run you a pretty penny, at an average of $60 an hour, and a total of $240 a month, for only a mere 4 hours of instruction, total. Private tutors also don’t give you the flexibility of time, and you’re often left to negotiate according to their schedule. By taking an online course like Jamorama’s, you can learn to play the guitar whenever, and wherever you want.

After poking around online, trying to find an affordable and complete program, I stumbled on Jamorama. It was easy to get caught up in it, with the eye catching, layout, big pictures, and enticing promises of being an impressive guitarist. Looking deeper, I read their promise of being able to play my first song after a 6 day, introductory course. Besides the very simplistic language, which easily made it very relatable, the lessons came off as very positive! It’s encouraging to be told that I don’t have to sit there for hours, trying to pluck away my life in an attempt to swallow the elephant that is learning guitar, in one sitting. The free lessons emphasize, over and over, the importance of taking breaks, in consideration of the fact that people simply don’t have superhuman attention spans to sit there for more than 20 minutes. It was interesting to find out that small chunking the information, with even a brief break, as small as 10 minutes, could be enough to reset your brain, and get it primed to take a bite of the next chunk of the elephant that is guitar mastery!

A more in-depth breakdown of the free, introductory course will come in a later post, though just know that what I got to try was truly more than my money’s worth. I’d gladly pay the reduced price of the actual beginner’s course, at $39.99, for all that free info. As a hungry amateur, paying only a little over half the cost of a usual, private session, which is often at $60 for an hour’s worth of instruction, it was definitely a bargain. Its worth is even greater, knowing that I could easily breeze through the entirety of the free course in less than an hour, and by that time, have learned some solid fundamentals, as well as having the first song I can put under my belt. If Jamorama’s free sample is any indication of what the paid courses are like, I am more than sure that being able to buy an entire program for less than half the cost of a months worth of private instruction, which can run you a pretty $240, at only an hour of teaching, per week, is more than a bargain. To call it such, would be a gargantuan understatement!