REVIEW - Learn Practice Play Vs Justin Guitar - Beginner Guitar Course Comparison

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I love Justin Guitar app, lot of tools to help a begginer lacking of talent like me, and I am already playing along with his tutorías and many songs 🥳 love it, love it, love it.

I've tried the Justin course a long time ago. I wasn't very impressed. It's not really a course -- it's a series of lessons. They don't seem to build on each other very well. And then the lessons don't really go in depth. It's just like, "put your fingers here, then here, then here, and do it like this, and now play this." It doesn't help me understand what I'm actually doing by putting my fingers there, other than getting something that sounds good coming out of the guitar. If Justin was to teach you how to sing the Alphabet, the first lesson would be, "A, B, C", the second would be, "J, K, L,' and you'd need the separate module, "Singing the ABCs" to learn the song part.

I can understand why people who want to learn the mechanics of guitar -- to be able to develop the skills and techniques required to play popular songs -- would be very pleased with the Justin courses. But I'm interested in more than that. In fact, the mechanical process of playing the guitar is the least of my concern.

It's why I'm looking up the Paul Davids course. He seems to stress things I'm particularly interested in. In his promotion he says stuff like 'Everything is connected" as in, the scales, chords, modes, etc. all have relationships, and he stresses that he wants to help teach you in a path that will build up to this understanding and then how to integrate this understanding into your playing.

I remember of a guitar teacher online. He said 'are you ready to spend hours every day playing and learning the guitar'? I'm French. I'm not sure of the spelling but I'm sure of the meaning. If anyone of you knows what online guitar school is about, please let me know. Thank you.

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Hi Luke, Love your Reviews I have used Justin's Beginners course and had considered David's, although David seems to get on my nerves at times. Another course which I found to be ok was Guitar Zero to Hero, by David Tran, Have you done a review on GZ2H before?

Would you recommend doing Justin Guitars course first before doing paul davids course?

Here’s the thing. Justin makes the learning journey really enjoyable. And that’s all you need really.

Outstanding & objective video. Thx. I’ve enjoyed following your journey as I just restarted 2 mos ago after a 30 year hiatus. Was having trouble with structure and productive practice lessons, whilst going down rabbit holes of learning lots of fun stuff. Looked at both courses and settled on JustinGuitar. Fantastic decision, as he has the right blend of very beginner materials but good structured practice sessions to reinforce fundamentals and speed up advancement.

Hi, I've read above comments about you tube guitar learning. Has anyone compared Justin to Dave Tran? I'd be interested to hear some feedback on this. Thanks

Terribly helpful review, mate. Thank you - Cheers!

What I like about how Justin’s lessons and song lessons are laid out is that it’s really easy to find a song that’s got something I’m trying to tighten up to make practice more fun. For example, recently I was trying to tighten up my basic open chords and I very easily found a song that incorporated almost all of them. So not only am I better at transitioning to all those chords but I tightened up my strumming and learned a new song over the course of several hours which I really enjoyed.

Having tried both to learn a few basic songs. My impression was that Justin really wants to help and encourage. Paul to me is all about Paul. First impressions count for a lot.

Both of them are good guitar teachers (I prefer Justin). However, I don't like your "I don't want to hurt somebody"- approach. Why can't you simply say which one is better from your point of view? Is it just about getting likes from both sides... ??? Then shame on you!!! That does not help people who are looking for the best help on their guitar journey.

Have you looked at Lauren Bateman's course?

Justin is an excellent teacher especially for a nubie guitarist, he keeps it fun and interesting and explains everything so simply

Hi check out Andy's Guitar or Active Melody and Tomo Fujita. Give us your review. Would be very interesting.
Your opinion about Justine and Paul's guitar course was great .
Thank you

Is Paul's course learn practice and play good for intermediate guitar players too? or should I purchase next level playing?

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I am a self learner on guitar. Played noise for 10years. Then one day I played music. Passion!!

justin did huge contribution in guitar learning community

what happened to the good ol' Learn to Play the Bert Weedon Way ? Worked for me!!

What about Laura Bateman’s courses? Been seeing her pop up more here, and the art of guitar too. Please and thank you 🙏🏼

Paul's course IMHO falls short on technique and context. For instance, in module 4 lesson 5 he introduces the C major scale without open strings in 7th position. Good, now we know the scale, what do we do with it? No context, no motivation. Then in the advanced exercise, i.e. playing the major scale in 3rds, different fingerings are used both ascending and descending, both non-standard compared to the fingers normally used in 7th position as ha actually recommends. This is because you have to play the 10th string on G and B strings after another. Paul does not say a single word about this. Justin uses different fingerings (finger roll) and explains precisely his approach. Much better.

I have only watched about three to four videos from you and I find they all are very informative thank you so very much

Thanks again for creating these detailed reviews. Just signed up to Justin's course. I'm finally gonna learn guitar! ❤ Liked, subbed and commenting to help your yt algorithm. Thankyou! 🙏

Do either of these courses teach how to play by reading musical notation? How do they handle theory? I just started doing Justin's course, but I am intrigued by Paul Davids because I am far more interested in fingerstyle playing than I am in just playing cords. Thanks for the comparison.

Taking Justine’s beginner course now and it is perfect for me. Looked at the other course and was out off by the cost, lack of songs and felt that as a rank beginner it was too much for me.

Thanks for the review!

Justin's the man.

Thanks for the review. I was thinking of doing Paul David’s course, but the cost was a bit too much for me. I’m trialing the Justin Guitar app, which is about $109 per year or about AUD $15 per month. I think Justin’s course is good for the total beginner. I’m an intermediate beginner. I can change chords and can do bar chords, but need to go back and build up a good foundation for going up to the next level (fingerpicking & soloing, getting to know the fretboard. I’ve been following Paul Davids and like his material, but I think he is aiming at the intermediate level guitar player.

I am looking for an alternative or perhaps a supplement to my current online instructor. I won't say his name. Given Justin is free, I am going to try him next. I will then consider Paul for $200.

Since Justin’s is free, just get both! Best of both worlds! You can get that open chord and ear training practice and learn some popular songs from Justin’s course, while you practice the more creative and theory type stuff from Paul’s course.

I like Steve Stein’s courses the best. I tried Justin’s, but I refuse to learn from anyone who calls the E string the fat string. Once or twice maybe, but after that, I feel talked down to…although I do believe Justin is a great teacher and very good person. Paul is so good at playing, he tends to be too difficult for me.

Thank you for taking your time and putting this information

I have recently "joined" Justin's course and i have to say he's better than the real life teacher i had donkey's years ago (I'm 60 years old and started first when i was like 18 but lost interest then)
I have seen a few of Paul's videos as well but i will stick to Justin i think. Now that doesn't mean i won't watch (and learn) from other's videos as well, but for my main learning i will go Justin.
Cheers!

I owned a music school for 15 years. I've watched Justin pretty much since the beginning and I've watched Paul as well.
Never investigated their sites or courses and this may sound untrue (I hope not elitist,) but I could tell from their regular videos that Justin would be the more accessible (not easier-nothing worthwhile is easy.) The reason being is that Justin is like the guy singing and playing in the bar, while Paul is more of the studio-type guy. Both have value. Justin thinks and communicates like a cover band guy: song based learning.
Paul is more abstract. Less people are going to be able to connect with that.
Paul's teaching you everything that goes into making a car. Justin says "drive" and along the way points out what the gear box does.

Do you have a review of "Fender Play" anywhere?

I was wondering: did you pay the $199 yourself or did somebody (maybe Paul himself?) sponsor you?

Thanks for your review, it's always pleasant to find fellow guitarists sharing their experience during the so called "learning process" (a lifetime process, cause I can't imagine a musician saying "ok, I'm done. There's nothing more I can learn" 😁). Having said that, I'd like to point out that Justin's method is, as you correctly say, a good starting point for absolute newbies. But in my case, I was the other kind of learner that you mention. I was able to play up to an extent but my disorganised method (almost no method) made me nail some fairly hard pieces and then struggle to play certain chords. Until one day that I was looking for some song's tutorial I found Justin and he immediately gave me the impression of being a well organised and straight forward teacher, just what I needed. When I saw the amount of free stuff he offered on his site, I decided to start from scratch and now, 2 years later, I can play much better, very clean, with more "groove"... I owe him all that and I still keep progressing through his learning path. The only thing I haven't learnt from him was to shred, but that's not my thing. He is making me play the way I want and I'm super grateful for that. I bought his books, and some of his apps, but his help saved me the amount of money that I couldn't/didn't want to spend in lessons that surely would have ended up in me not playing any longer. So I know that my opinion is really, really biased but I take advantage to praise Justin whenever the opportunity arises. Thanks again for your review and keep up playing, it is a magnificent hobby! 🎸🎸🎸

The new offering by Paul Davids- Acoustic Adventures.
This is of interest because he has released a few previous courses and feedback from those which have contributed to this one so it might be as good as he promises?

Very nice review, thank you. I may go with Justin then ‘progress’ to Paul. Love them both and Paul’s videos have simply gorgeous quality. Being bluesy minded I did already subscribe to a Steve Stine course, will likely give that the first try.

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