If you have ever tried to learn guitar, and you ended up quitting or getting discouraged, then keep reading to learn how you can play like a pro in months, instead of years.

''For 15 years, I have developed and tested effective learning shortcuts for beginning guitarists. Now, my 8 week beginner's program is available on CD-ROM or download. This approach is different from any other published method. This lesson series has helped thousands of people reach their playing goals. It works on your computer just like a website, without the wait. I invite you to try this shape-based, play-by-ear method.' -- Greg Varhaug

There's no note reading. Learn by playing with live music. Video clips, diagrams and large tablature show you what to do. The Beginner's Guitar Method shows you the building blocks of music in terms of shapes and sounds.

Play-Alongs That Anyone Can Learn In Minutes  Video and sound play-alongs show you important techniques and musical ideas - things you will find in every song, things you will use every day of your life as a player. Even kids as young as 10 have learned to play using this CD-ROM.

Play By Ear   Each sound has a shape and each shape has a sound. A few scales and chord shapes allow you to play thousands of songs.

Lessons Run Right Off The CD  Or, you can transfer the files to your computer's hard drive for optimal video and audio performance (requires 600MB disk space). Written in HTML format with links to video and audio tracks. No conflicts with other computer resources, doesn't alter your settings, program files, registry, desktop, etc. No adware, spyware or tracking software, nothing tricky. Lessons use your offline web browser. The look and feel of high-speed internet, without going online. No waiting for files to download. Designed for Windows 9x / ME / XP / 2000.

Videos Show You Tight Close-ups Of All Parts   All parts are demonstrated slowly, in short, simple segments. Most video segments are about 10 seconds long, and contain 4 to 10 notes. The camera angles are better than in most videos and DVDs. You can really see what's going on. (See photos at left.)

Videos are shot with the guitar on a fixed stand, so the guitar stays completely still. This lets you get consistently good close-ups. How many videos and DVDs have you seen where the information is good, but you can't see what their hands are doing. This happens when the teacher isn't a photographer, and vice verse. Besides, most big stars don't want to bother with playing a guitar on a stand. (See photos at left.)

Forget what you learned in your last lesson? Didn't understand what your teacher said? Can't read your teachers notes? Not learning songs you like? Getting charged for missed lessons? You'll never have these problems again with this breakthrough visual play-along method.

A Self-Paced Lesson Program   Practice in your spare time. Don't worry if you can't practice every day. You can get great results with 15 minutes a day, three to four days a week. As a beginner, you wont spend hours a day practicing. Over a few weeks, you can build up to playing for longer periods.

The Building Blocks For Real Songs

This lesson series (downloads or CD-ROM) will get you to your goal - playing guitar parts to real music by ear - in the shortest time possible. All you need is a few basic techniques to start learning guitar parts to your favorite songs. Many professional musicians play by ear, and learn their parts from CDs, tapes, or records. Why not use the same approach?

It's the fastest and easiest method for beginners ever offered. Best lesson value anywhere. Gain the strength and dexterity you need to play complex guitar parts. This CD provides you with an easy, user-friendly introduction to modern guitar techniques.

Hand Conditioning   The hardest thing about playing is fretting with your left hand (if you're a right-handed player). This is the number-one reason people get discouraged with playing. Problems with fretting stop many people in their tracks.

Improve Your Playing While You Watch TV   The CD gives you a system for conditioning your left hand using still holds on the guitar neck. These hand conditioning exercises completely change the way the guitar feels in your hands. There's no movement, just still holds you do while sitting. Great for watching TV. Takes about 10 minutes a day.

Videos, Flash animations and practice tracks give you a musical vocabulary. You can hear elements of your favorite music in the play-along parts. The practice tracks sound like real music, and include drums, bass and organ. The tracks let you practice simple, repeating movements at an easy tempo. These movements are the foundation of guitar parts in all styles.

Better Than VHS, Better Than DVD  The browser-based CD-ROM format is easier to navigate, and easier to control than either video or DVD. The amount of information you get would take hours to narrate in a continuous DVD or video format. The CD-ROM format also allows you to print full-color copies of photos and diagrams for reference. Bookmarking ('Add to Favorites') and shortcuts make navigation and surfing even easier. It's like having a high speed connection to the ultimate beginner's guitar site.

The major publishers have just created a high-tech interface for their old methods. They have basically repackaged the same methods they have published since the 1950's. And these methods weren't very effective, even in their day.

The Beginner's Guitar Method CD-ROM is the result of years of changes and improvements based on dozens of live tests of the product. It's the ideal distance learning alternative for beginning guitarists.

Click here to see the online version of the CD. The video and audio links are deactived, since we don't have streaming content (yet). Individual lessons can be purchased as downloads for $6.95 each.