Thursday, January 18, 2007

Guitar Videos - Do they really work?

If anyone ever doubted whether you can learn to play guitar using guitar videos....think again. This was sent to me today from Dave. Dave has a very familiar story. Learned a bit. Raised a family. Came back to it and started looking for ways to improve his guitar playing. Here's what he wrote.

Mike,

I took lessons when I was 15-16 yrs old. Stopped playing because I was frustrated with the theory aspect of the lessons and disgusted that I couldn't play any songs.

My friends would say play me something and all I could play were some scales and a few chords. Fast forward 29 years. I'm now 44 yrs old and I havepicked up the guitar on and off since my teenage yrs and would struggle to try and learn a song here and there.

This past year when my second son went off to college I figured it was time for me to try and keep myself occupied by picking up the guitar again. In December I stumbled on to your website and started working on your free download lessons and songs. When you offered the "strummers paradise" I was anxious to try and move my playing forward. I just downloaded the first few songs today and I am amazed that I can actually play a song pretty easily after practicing from your lessons and working on it a little every night.

I first tried "Folsom Prison Blues" because my wife and I just watched "Walk the Line" recently. I was starting to play the song after watching the video and my wife came in from the other room . . . and was amazed at the fact that I was actually playing and singing a song. I told my wife that if this type of lesson was available when I was a treenager I never would have stopped playing.

Thank you Mike, you've rekindled in me something that I always
regretted not sticking with. I guess you're never too old.
Thanks
D.J.

I must admit I was rather pleased with this latest set of videos and it looks like I might have pleased one or two other people as well.

You can still get them here at the launch price
If you are quick. I will not be repeating them at this price
ever

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Strumming Videos Release

Howdy partner. . . . . . .

Pull up a log and sit a while by the campfire.

Eat some beans, spit in the fire and look what
folks have been asking about these latest video
releases.


Q. How can I find out what will be on the videos
A. Go here for samples of the videos and find out how to buy them at the launch price.

Q. Will these be videos or just sound files like in your emails?

A. These will be videos done exactly like all my other videos.

Q. Will there be any tabs?
A. No. I will be giving the lyrics, annotated with the correct chords
and going through, in detail, exactly how the pieces are to be strummed.

Q. Are they on DVD?
A. No. These are all downloads.

Q. I missed the pre-registration to get the reduced price?
A. I have a record of everyone who was sent the pre-registration form
and will make sure that those people get the chance to pre-register.
If you want to pre-register now then go to
http://www.6-string-videos.com/strummers/prereg

Q. Why do I have to pre-register?
A. You don't. But you'll have to pay the full price if you want them
after the initial launch.

Q. When will I be able to actually pay for them?
A. I'll be sending out a purchase link to everyone who has registered
with a short snippet of each video (to remind you what you'll be getting)
approx 3 days before the videos are ready for downloading.

Q. Will you be doing any more strummers videos?
A. The response to this lot has been very good so I guess I read the
market quite well. I aim to bring out another batch of these within
a month after this release.

Q. Why are your prices in dollars and what is it in pounds?
A. More than 50% of my customers are US based (thanks folks) so I
price in dollars. UK Customers note $1 = .50p approx.

Q. Do I need to download the songs all in one go?
A. No. You'll be sent a download page with all the songs on it and,
once it is saved to your hard drive you can go back and download
the songs as you need them.

Q. What if I lose the download page?
A. (This applies to any other purchases too) If you misplace (lose)
your download page then just email me your purchase title and the
email address you used on paypal. I can check this fairly quickly
and re-send the download page.

Q. I cannot (or will not) use Paypal so how can I buy the videos?
A. First of all (and my many customers will vouch for this) generally
speaking Paypal is a great and safe service. If however you need to
pay some other way then. Europe: Convert dollar price to euros or pounds
and send cash in the mail. It works fine. UK Customers can send a cheque.
Everywhere else: It has to be cash in the mail. Euros.

Q. Can you please hurry up and get them finished Mike?
A. Well I would but I'm Just answering a few quest.......duh!