Learn to play guitar (or drums or piano) at iVideosongs

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Learn to play guitar (or drums or piano) at iVideosongs

by Brad Linder Feb 1st 2008

Ever get the feeling your guitar teach must suck because he still hasn't been able to teach you to play "Spirit of Radio" by Rush properly? Well, if you'd be willing to pay $10 for a personal lesson from Rush's Alex Lifeson, iVideosongs can help.

iVideosongs provides a selection of video lessons for acoustic or electric guitar, banjo, drums, and piano. Most of the tutorials are presented by iVideosongs instructors, who do a great job of breaking lessons down step by step. But a handful of lessons are presented by the professional musicians who either wrote or performed the songs. In addition Alex Lifeson, there are tutorials from drummer Russ Kunkell, The Allman Brother's pianist Chuck Leavell, John Oates of Hall & Oates, and Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, and Nash, among others.

You can either learn to play specific songs by paying to download a song lesson, or you can learn a specific musical technique. Most of the technique videos are available as free downloads. Paid lessons from iVideosongs instructors tend to run about $5, while lessons from professional instructors are closer to $10.

[via Somewhat Frank]

Tags: instruction, instructional-videos, ivideosongs, music, musicians, tutorial

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Steve Rieck said 9:17PM on 2-02-2008

Just for the record...All IVS instructors are full-time professionals with college degrees in music.

Pick Boy said 9:17PM on 2-02-2008

The Steve lightning fingers Rieck?

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