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Online Guitar Teaching Innovation from Mike Herberts


Are you getting totally frustrated because you can play some chords and maybe even some strum patterns and a bit of picking but still . . .
it doesn't sound good enough?

Are you at the point where you think that your guitar might be more useful as firewood and that the painful wrists and sore finger ends are 'just not worth the effort and now your partner is threatening to shove that guitar of yours somewhere unmentionable because they're fed up hearing the same thing over and over again?

Ok well just before you get out the lighter fuel and turn that lovely guitar into a pile of ashes I want you to STOP beating yourself up about your lack of progress.

You've probably made the same mistake as everbody else and been 'Googling' something like 'Online Guitar Lessons' or 'Learn Guitar' or 'Guitar Lessons' . . . and that is part of the problem.

By now you'll have found hundreds (possibly thousands) of websites that 'seem' to have exactly what you're looking for . . . like . . .

. . .  the website where the 'teacher' said 'here's a great song for beginners' and then promptly started playing something with three barre chords in it.

For beginners? I don't think so pal.

You're sick to your sore finger ends of websites where you end up watching egotistical maniacs displaying their superior skills by playing like demented Tasmanian Devils with no explanation whatsoever . . . and laughingly calling it guitar lessons.

And you've almost certainly downloaded the 100,000 chord ebook, The 'play in a weekend' ebook, the 'guitar mastery in 7 days or your money back' ebook and now have a hard drive full of useless garbage and have made nil progress . .



When you first got your guitar, and probably before you actually started learning, you will have had a picture in your mind.

You pictured yourself somewhere, maybe among friends or family when someone says.....would you play for us?

You smiled a reluctant smile and said 'Oh ok I suppose so'. You picked up the guitar and started playing and it felt great.

As time has gone by, that dream seems to be slipping further and further away and you know inside that something just has to change if you are ever going to achieve that dream.

The great news is you can re-ignite that dream

When I was doing my research for this site I did all the same things you did. I downloaded the ebooks, read the promises, tried the stuff out.

I figured out fairly quickly that there was a market for something or somebody who was going to take a 'different' approach to learning guitar, and that whoever took that different approach would have a successful website.

All it needed was for someone to try a different way.

Someone who would teach the pieces that people wanted to learn without any hype.

Someone who didn't need to promote their own ego.

Someone who would just get on with it and not feel the need to baffle the students with technical jargon and theoretical explanations.

This is what I figured out. . .

• There is no point in trying to get guitarists to play barre chords on an acoustic guitar until they've been playing for at least a few months. After all, if you could play barre chords fluently you would have made enough progress to not bother looking at sites like mine.
  

• There is not much point in learning theory yet. Later when you can play a few dozen songs you can learn all that stuff if you want to.
  (I still don't know any of that stuff after 30 years playing)

• There is absolutely NO point in knowing all the notes on the fretboard when you are still struggling to hold an 'F' chord?

• 99% of the guitar stuff kicking around on the internet is rubbish.

• Anyone can have a great repertoire on guitar with less than 10 chords

Those conclusions are what made me set up this website 7 YEARS years ago. I now have over 137,000 guitarists/subscribers and customers worldwide who agree with me and now I just need to prove it to YOU.


The only way I know to prove it to you is to let you experience it for yourself, for FREE, and then hope that you'll become a regular visitor to the website. (See video below)

So, if you're fed up downloading useless cr*p onto your precious hard drive and want to finally start playing real actual music instead of just chords.

Or if you keep getting so far through a piece and then hit a brick wall when the tricky bit shows up.

If you're sick with disappointment when your latest purchase turns out to be garbage yet again . . .



I look forward to helping you make some great music with your guitar.

© Mike Herberts | 2008-2012 | for Simple Guitar Tabs