Learning to play the guitar has over the years become a much more enjoyable and personal thing to take up considering the amount of resources that have been made available for learners. One of the great things about having the internet at hand is that many people can download guitar video lessons for a small price. The price of downloadable lessons calculates to be cheaper than having one-to-one lessons with a private tutor. Most guitar videos are usually an hour long and come in different parts. As there is much to learn such as the correct way of holding a guitar and fingering techniques, it takes more than one day to pick up all of these skills at any one time. This can be done through short bursts and taking each lesson at one’s own pace. The whole point of learning from home is to have the freedom to pick up the guitar whenever you feel comfortable in learning. The only downside is that you do not have someone in front of you to point out whether you make any mistakes or are doing anything wrong as it is difficult to assess yourself when you are only a learner. In these cases guitar videos can help as they have close-up shots of where one should place their fingers on the fret board and how to play each chord. Using visual references the learner is able to memorize what they would need to do and how to do it. A lot of the guitar video tutorials will focus on learning how to play familiar songs and some may even be specifically created for the purpose of learning one whole album. Each of these focuses on how to read the tablature and getting the notes right on each section of the song. The videos will look closely at each part going over how to play the song so that the learner can become better acquainted with how to play it and be comfortable in how they play the songs. For those who cannot afford to buy or download music videos can see snippets of guitar video lessons on free video platform sites. These do not include the full length of the tutorial but they do give enough information to get a good idea of what to expect from the tutorial or provide a small amount of information enough to know how to play a short melody. Some tutorials may only be targeted towards people wanting to learn a new skill or practise a specific technique, which is ideal for those who are already familiar with playing the guitar. Often taking one-to-one tutorials will mean that the student is taking on board or learning the same techniques or style of playing as their tutor, resulting in them being very limited in discovering their own style of playing. This is different from having a correct way of playing as holding a guitar right does not mean you have picked up your own style.

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