Music has often been called “the food of the soul”, and many music lovers will agree to this statement. This is because, most often, music cheers you up when you’re feeling down, invokes memories, inspires creativity, and often makes you feel calmer during stressful times. Isn’t it so?

And it is natural that some people start liking a musical instrument and want to play it, it could be a flute, piano, banjo, drums, guitar, and many others. So today, the site in review is about learning to play guitar from the beginning to the advanced level at www.justinguitar.com.

No matter where you stand in your journey of learning to play the guitar, Justinguitar is an easy to use and simple to follow site for guitar lovers. This clean, clutter-free website gives you all the information about guitars and how you can learn playing it in a better way with easy tutorials, videos and tips. Not only it boosts confidence in beginners, but those who are at the advanced stage can practice more to make their tunes professional.

What struck me most is that everything on the site is free. Let’s admit one thing, you don’t get a beginner, advance and practice modules and courses for free, you are often asked for a fee, etc. but this site provides you everything for free, you only need to register yourself and follow the tutorials accordingly.

You can go through the main menu at the top and start your journey. The first in the line is “Courses”. Choose from beginners, intermediate to advance level all having easy tutorials. Then there is a “Song” category, you’ll get to choose from a variety of guitar tunes of famous songs. Moreover, you can make a request at the “request page” to play guitar tunes on your favourite song.

You can learn about chords, metronome, tempo calculator etc., from the “Tools” category, and read tips, interviews, and learn about events and workshop organised by the site creator from the “Explore” category.

The site is created by Justin Sandercoe, an Australian guitarist, songwriter, performer, producer and educator. According to him, the courses and lessons are carefully designed for anyone who has a passion for guitar. So if you are thinking to start on your guitar journey, visit www.justinguitar.com

Published in Dawn, Young World, January 28th, 2023

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