The question often arises about whether online guitar lessons are worth the money. Lots of people still make the local guitar teacher the first port of call when they go looking for guitar lessons. It takes a little searching to get the message that the internet is filled with quality online guitar courses. So maybe we could take a look at what's available online and see how they weigh up against a real live guitar teacher.

There are quite a few electric guitar courses available to suit any style you could name. If you are paying forty dollars for an hour lesson with a teacher you've spent aver three hundred dollars after a couple of months. For that sort of money you could buy a couple of the biggest and best courses that teach you to play the guitar online.

Another consideration is that if you want to learn a specialized field of guitar like lead, acoustic or blues your local teacher may not know anything about your chosen genre. If you get an online guitar course, join a guitar membership site or pay to download a guitar course, you will find something in your style that has a boatload of teaching material, video lessons by a teacher who really knows his guitar playing apples and you're still miles ahead financially.

Access to online guitar courses is not limited to certain hours so your personal schedule of work, study or family life should not exclude you form an hour or two (or a half hour) spent every day on the guitar. If you have the passion to learn, you can learn.

The next thing to talk about is the free lessons a guitar student can get on the internet. These can be video lessons from YouTube, an organized free guitar course with theory lessons and tabs for songs you can learn, or you can mix the two. What you get is still a bunch of high quality lessons but they are not structured. An online guitar course that you pay for has a beginning, a middle and an end. It is paced so that you can learn in your own time and go back and revise any thing you didn't get the first time. I you are going to pick and choose you own lessons from a variety of sources you may be missing that vital element of a structured guitar course.