Guitarmasterclass.net teaches you various techniques, licks and songs through video lessons. Each lessons is divided into several short videos. The lessons contain tabs and often also backing tracks and guitar pro files. Every lessons features 2 free videos the other ones are for registered membery only. There is also a free lick of the day worth checking out!

The quality of the videos is quite variable. There are really great lessons, but there are also some incomplete or confusing ones. Still there are more than enough of great lessons. Just pick the ones that suit you best.

Because of licensing issues there are no lessons on songs from popular bands. There are interesting "In the style of some artist" lessons however. From these "in the style of" lessons you can learn more about the artist than by just playing his songs.

Most lessons consist of some licks/riffs and tabs without much talking or theory. I'd personally like to have more explanations and theory.

The Site site isn't very structured. You'll have to figure out what lessons to learn on your own.

But for me, personally, there is one very important thing about this website. It is fun. It's fun to pick a video, look at it and then just play it and improvise on top of it.

Plus

• It's fun!
• Lots of videos
• New videos
• Backingtracks
• GuitarPro files
• Cheap compared to other websites
• Some free lessons

Minus

• Unstructured
• Small Videos
• No licensed songs

Who is it for

I think guitarmasterclass.net is a great site to learn some new licks and to get some inspiration. However I don't think that it is enough to learn how to play guitar from scratch.

If you are just beginning you should also consider different websites or a real teacher.

If you do already take private lessons you should really consider guitarmasterclass.net. It's a great addition to private lessons for a small price!

If use the link bellow to sign up you'll be granted a 10$ discount!

I've integrated my Namegenerator into this website and translated it to english. May be I'll write a post about the way it works later.

I've just released the first version of play it slowly. A software that allows you to change the speed and pitch of audio files.

I really love my Ibanez S470. Its very well made and plays really well. But there is one thing about it that I didn't like. The INF 2 bridge pickup. I wanted a clearer, more aggressive tone with more harmonics. After some research I came to the conclusion that replacing the bridge pickup with a DiMarzio Evolution should do the trick.

Replacing the pickup was relatively simple. The biggest problem was that DiMarzio and Ibanez use different color codes. Here's how they relate:

With the new pickup the sound is now more clear, aggressive and tight. The harmonics are screaming. The new pickup is far more sensible to changes to the volume or tone controls. It does also really highlight sloppy playing. What I do not like about this pickups is the clean sound. But I like the warm clean sound of the neck pickup a lot. So that doesn't bother me.

Now the questions is, was it worth it. For me it totally was. I really love the guitar and this was a real improvement to it's sound. I think the Evolution suits the S470 really well.

I've made a major update to my website. I've got a blog again, this time using Zine. Everything is new and probably buggy. Please contact me if something doesn't work. The old version is still available: http://29a.ch/old.html