Advice on online guitar courses

The_Bri_Minister

Like many of us perhaps, I've played guitar for 30+ years and assimilated random bits of theory and information, enough to get by learning songs and playing in a band, but it all feels a bit disjointed. By choice I'm looking like being unemployed for a time, while looking for a new job in a new area, so this seems like an ideal opportunity for a bit of 'self improvement', and who knows, maybe doing a bit of teaching somewhere down the line, but if nothing else hopefully make me a better guitar player.

Any recommendations for online courses etc? I've downloaded random things from Truefire/Licklibrary and the likes in the past, but I think I need something a bit more structured to follow along with, otherwise I'll just end up adding more random bits of information. Obviously I don't want anything 'beginner' focused, as that will just frustrate me if I have to go back to learning Mary Had A Little Lamb etc.

As an aside, I'm going to be in the fortunate position of having my own music room for the first time and would like to dabble with a bit of recording for my own amusement. I have a MacBook with Garage Band, and had a trial version of Logic for a while, which I looked at and thought 'no idea where to start here', so I didn't. Any good resources for that, starting right at the beginning?

DuploLicks

I’m enjoying Eric Haugen’s content at the moment. I’ll be honest I haven’t bought anything yet but I like his delivery and if you take his course / subscribe you can get 1-2-1. Now how likely that is would need to be tested. 

https://erichaugenguitar.com/

AndyD

I have Truefire All Access.  Periodically they will have this on offer at $99 for a year which I think is good value.  The challenge is to identify the courses that work for you and stick to some sort of plan rather than flit around from course to course but you should be able to find suitable content.  There are learning paths on the site which can help with this.

Edit: I see it's $79 in the Black Friday sale!

LPManic

Truefire all day and all night long. $79 deal is on now and worth every penny.

JonB

Do Truefire regularly do the $79/99 promo through the year? I'm looking to learn a bit more theory in my evenings, can't remember what I was looking at but noted Rhett Shull had a $14 caged course available. Just had a look at Eric Haugen's caged and quite like his delivery in the sample.

joeW

For theory I find books easier than videos as it’s easier to go at your own pace and speed thro sections you already know - but there are some theory videos on truefire 

AndyD

JonB said:

Do Truefire regularly do the $79/99 promo through the year? 

The $79 is a black Friday deal I think but they do have plenty of "sales" - $99 is more the norm in these

JonB

Thought I'd do the free trial over the weekend, once you sign up it's instantly a request to add card details which always puts me off  

Good point about offline learning as that's definitely a consideration due to the amount of screen time generally have.

MrTee

Thanks for pointing out the TrueFire all access. I’ve had it previously and at this price it’s daft not to dip in again.

JonB

Right I think I'm going for Truefire all access and accept I already watch a lot screens so may as well make the time useful. I did consider just buying one of the courses to try and stay focussed, but as I gathered a short list of courses that looked interesting the cost wasn't too far off the all access. 

icu81b4

For a free DAW on a MacBook I’d give Universal Audio’s LUNA a go. Not the most intuitive but is very stable although beware of them sucking you into their UAD World (easily done) 
a lot of commands used are the same as pro tools and logic, so if you’re familiar with them it’s a simple transition. 

Lots of tutorials on you tube. 

PAL

Truefire.

Neilybob

I did a one2one Skype call with a guitar tutor for the structure I need to progress. He was excellent and we talked over messages before hand so he could understand -
a) what I already knew. 
b) what I thought I already knew. 
c) what I wanted to know or how I wanted to progress. 

I recorded the video lesson and he emailed through PDF sheets to go over to review. He also sent me with homework and said book my next lesson when I was ready to progress. 

He showed me how to apply my theory knowledge, using CAGED, to my playing. Seems simple but somehow I'd learnt a good amount of theory but I didn't understand how to use it to play/jam guitar with others. 

Edit: He came recommended from a friend.