Yes, it makes the course a bit longer, but the short history lessons are interesting. The instructor talks for about 10 minutes at the beginning of each lesson as a point of guitar history and the famous guitar players. There are millions of YouTube sites that will teach you how to play beginner guitar songs. It is not designed to teach you how to play songs on the guitar.

For me, the lessons were fairly easy early on and then got harder toward the middle of the lesson, (where I quit the first time), and then got a little easier during the second half.

I still learned more as I was moving on even though I did not perfect the previous lessons.

Also, I did not fully understand some of the lessons the second time around, but I did the best I could and moved on to the next lesson. My first time around with the course I got frustrated thinking that I had to play what the instructor was playing at the end of each lesson. He is just showing what you can do with more experience when you put the whole exercise together. He is a professional guitarist with 40+ years of experience. You are not expected to mimic what the instructor is doing at the end of the lesson. I realized the second time around that the instructor teaches you had to play the exercises and then shows you what you can do with the exercises to play riffs and melodies. This time I managed to finish the course in about a month's time. I wrote down the date and what disc and lesson I was currently working on and made notes for myself. Of all the learning books I had, I for some reason pulled this course out with the DVD's and took out a notebook. I recently decided that I was going to learn to play guitar with discipline this time. I put it in a large storage bin along with about 30 other beginner-intermediate guitar learning books that I also never finished. Solid Beginner Lessons I bought this course many years ago and got halfway through it and gave up.

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