I introduced a few of my friends to your site and they loved it. Although they had never heard of it before. You guys should start marketing to get your site out to public, specifically geared toward the musician demographic. Thanks for such an incredible product.

Tommy C

And since when did people get so explicit about astroturfing the TC? Jeremy, Bobby, Zoe, Lloyd, Pickboy — you’re not fooling anyone.

My posting was triggered by Eric’s note — Eric we have a great Bass course, taught by Guy Pratt (of Pink Floyd/Roxy Music etc). It costs either £9.99 per month or £29.99 for the full course, and consists of 28 video lessons covering techniques, styles, as well as some interesting anecdotes from Guy about legendary bass players past & present.

We’d love to hear feedback, as we are a very very small outfit (only 4 of us!). We are busy producing new courses at the moment, and are launching a new site next week which is browzer based so the tech is much simpler and the mac users aren’t left out….

These are complete and accurate and in some cases taught by the composer/performer. The rest seem to be taught by excellent teachers with extensive professional credentials.

You can find low res versions of alot of the content on the itunes store etc… on youtube as well. $5 is well worth the upgrade to accuracy and better resolution.

Please contact iVideosongs.com

This is life changing

FYI I loaded it into iTunes and had iTunes convert it to an iPod video and carry my videos on my iPhone

Zoe

This site is amazing in that you can buy the song, and you will own the lesson, so whenever you want to come back to it in a week, month, or year from now, it is still there waiting for you to perfect it. Not to mention these lessons are perfectly accurate, they aren’t false tabs from random websites, this is perfection.

I think this is an amazing idea, and think the prices are good for the average guitarist. Also, the free tips and tutorials is a great way to check out what the site offers and how the video is produced.

Overall, I love it!

Right now I’m learning the basics with something similar called iPlayGuitar (for the Mac) and I am loving it. It’s perfect for the absolute beginner because it goes slowly & methodically through the absolute basics with step-by-step videos, even for things like how to hold your guitar, how to restring it (which I just did last night for the first time), etc. I *really* have fun (maybe too much fun) with the “jam track” feature… it’s like playing along with a backup band. It has four different simultaneous camera angles which I didn’t see on iVideoSongs. You can also export the track and record yourself playing along with the songs in GarageBand. I thought that was something I wouldn’t use at all, but it does help to hear myself play and find out where my weak points are.

I just tried out the “Alternate Bass Patterns” video on iVideoSongs and I’d say it is good for where I am, but definitely not for someone who just picked up a guitar. I was hoping they would have a series of videos for newbies and some stupid-simple songs to practice along with. I’ll come back when I have the ability to play Rush & Eric Clapton.

The download vs subscription model is the result of customer feedback around the idea of control. People told us that they didn’t want to necessarily be connected to the internet when working with the content. So, we present the downloads without DRM which enables you to view the content on a mobile device, laptop or TV without need of a connection. You own it and control it.

We are not a replacement for a face to face teacher. We just augment that experience. One of the challenges with the face time model is you have to remember everything you saw and heard. So, we try to bridge that gap.

I would suggest you guys download some of the free tutorials. Get a feel for how the product works and then decide if you want to try a song. Meanwhile, thanks so much for the feedback. It is really important to us and will help us make improvements going forward.

However, some problems: $10 is a bit steep for one song, although the quality of instruction itself is quite good (if the preview to Limelight was any example). Plus, iVideoSongs is probably the worst name for a decent website I’ve seen in awhile. But kudos otherwise!

Seth also made another good point about having real time graphics of the chords being played. I’ve found a few instructional vids that have this, along with close ups on the finger position on the neck of the guitar and it is much more helpful as fingers do tend to make it a bit harder to get a clear view of exactly where to position yourself.

I have to agree with Seth again that a monthly/6-month/1-year subscription option would be much better.

For example, How do I – play complicated by avril lavigne

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First off, $9.99/song is not going to work. Beginners are going to get on there, get frustrated with a song, figure they are out $10 and never come back.

It should be a monthly subscription where you have access to the whole site and promote 3-4 popular NEW popular songs every month like Guitar magazine etc.

Also, the videos seem well done, but they really need realtime graphics of the chords as they are being played, with the name of the chord next to it – watching chubby fingers is difficult for beginners, and for some chords intermediates too.