Get comfortable with the guitar. The website gives you a simple system for conditioning your left hand that can cut your learning time by months. There's no movement, just still holds you do while you watch TV. These conditioning exercises take only about 10 minutes a day. Gain the strength and dexterity you need to play complex guitar parts. Completely change the way the guitar feels in your hands.
The playing exercise videos are based on real guitar parts from real hit songs.
Covers rhythm and lead guitar in all styles.
For both acoustic and electric guitar.
Even kids as young as 10 have learned to play using this method.
Learn from video and sound play-alongs. (Most people can learn to play with them in minutes.)
Learn important techniques that you will use every day of your life as a player.
Play by ear approach. Learn how only a few scales and chord shapes allow you to play thousands of songs.
Learn to associate sounds and shapes - each sound has a shape and each shape has a sound.
As long as you have an updated Flash program on your computer, there's nothing to install. Doesn't alter your settings, program files, registry, desktop, etc.
Designed for Windows 9x / ME / XP / 2000.
Careful use of camera angles let you really see what's going on. (How many videos and DVDs have you seen where the information is good, but you can't see what their hands are doing.)
Forget what you learned in your last lesson? Didn't understand what your teacher said? Can't read your teachers notes? Getting charged for missed lessons? You'll never have these problems again with this breakthrough visual play-along method.
- A self-paced lesson program allows you to learn in your spare time.
Learn the scale positions used by the full-time pros. Get ahead of a lot of your competition.
Get to your goal - playing guitar parts to real music by ear - in the shortest time possible. All you need is a few basic techniques to start learning guitar parts to your favorite songs.
The HoustonGuitar method provides you with an easy, user-friendly introduction to modern guitar techniques.
Practice videos include tracks that sound like real music. All play-along videos include drums to help you develop rock-solid timing. Some videos also include bass guitar and organ. Exercises are based on simple, repeating movements at easy tempos. These core movements are the foundation of guitar parts in all styles.
The HoustonGuitar lesson series is the ideal distance learning alternative for beginning and intermediate guitarists.
© 2002, 2007 Greg Varhaug