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The five best guitar teachers on YouTube
YouTube is a fantastic resource for guitar lessons. Not only are there dozens of highly-skilled guitar players demonstrating chords, lick, styles and songs. But some of the world’s best, and most well-known guitar players, some of them sadly no longer with us, are right there giving lessons.
So I thought that it would be great to put together a kind of video notebook of some of the best lessons I could find on there and keep it so that when I get some time (ha!) I can watch the videos and learn a few new tricks.
And if I’m building a list of great videos for myself, seems kinda logical that I should share it here. So, here are my five favourite all-star guitar lessons from some of the best players ever to pick-up an axe.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The late, great Texas bluesman talks in detail about the blue that influenced him and the differences in style between the Chicago blues he grew up listening to and the British blues bands of the Sixties.
Eric Clapton
A long-haired, moustached Slowhand, filmed in the late sixties, talks about how he gets those amazing tones, and how he used the Wah Wah to such great effect. Playing a rather funky SG, too.
Slash
The leery grinned one explains how to play Velvet Revolver’s American Man.
Angus Young
Angus the legend unlocks the secrets of those classic AC/DC riffs.
Andy Summers
Has to be filed under dull, but worthy, this one. A pretty disinterested Andy Summers demonstrates some Police riffs while making it clear that that’s not what he does anymore.
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I use You Tube video lessons all the time. You stole a good story from me!
It’s a great idea and it is free. The tv is a cool vibe to practice to. Theme songs and commercials.
I love the article and the way you put it together, but Kenny, you and I both know Jimi Hendrix was the greatest most emotive and effortless player ever. He most definitely should be numero uno.
Thanks for the comments, Danny.
You’re right, YouTube is a great resource. And the TV is a great tip. If I’d been compiling a list of the top five guitar players on YouTube, I would have almost certainly put Hendrix at No. 1.
But the idea was to post videos of great guitarists actually giving lessons, hence the ‘teachers’ in the title. If I had found a video of Jimi giving a lesson on YouTube, I would have posted it at No. 1.
Yeah YouTube is great, Im going to be uploading some videos from there to put on my site.