I have been practicing guitar on and off for the last year. Went through a local instructor who was great, but I could not afford the classes all the time. So I took a break from lessons and tried to learn on my own, searching the internet and printing off this or that, taking it home and struggling through. My wife purchased me my 3rd guitar this Christmas: A Epiphone Les Paul Classic. I knew that I had to get back into lessons because doing it on my own was not working too hot. I came across Learn and Master Guitar by accident. I found a website who reviewed it and several others, but scored L&MG the highest. I located their website, researched it and purchased my copy. Tonight was my first night with L&MG. The UPS man dropped it off earlier in the afternoon and I had a chance to look over the content pretty quick. I was amazed at how nicely it's packaged. But what really amazed me was the content in the study book. I thumbed through the book and thought, Oh great, here I go!! I've always wanted to learn to read music but thought it would be too hard. But I'm going to give it 110%. I started out on the first DVD. It went amazingly easy, but I have been working on my C scale over the last year and some of the Pentatonic as well. Now don't let me fool you, it did give my left hand a run for it's money! So far it's going very well (ha ha, one night though) and I really enjoy it. Steve's approach at taking it slow at first, but making you work harder is what I needed. And I'm learning things that I was not taught in 30 mins weekly of guitar lessons. I like the idea that I can spend as much time on each lesson, repeat it If needed, or advance. I also went to the resources site and downloaded the extra matieral there. Another 180 some pages of study, which is awesome. Im planning on each night of 30-45 mins of excersize (which I was used to anyways) but in a more structured setting. I know it will take a year to do this, but Im determined to make it. For anyone else who is starting out, stick to it. I think this will really work well for us. Later, Jason
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