Online courses to learn the guitar are heavily searched on the Internet because of the cost advantage and many other benefits. While a course delivered through the Internet could be created by a very high quality instructor and may include a lot of DVD's with a very low price tag, a local instructor could charge you hundreds of dollars only for some beginner's lessons and much more for the intermediate lessons. Maybe this same instructor could not help you with advanced lessons at all, so if you want to learn to play the guitar from beginner level to expert and saving a lot of money, clearly the Internet is the way to go.

Learning from a book is totally prehistoric. You will learn much more easily with software or DVD because of the interaction with the teacher. Although he wouldn't interact really with you, you could always pause the DVD to replicate things that where taught and learn at your own pace.

Not all people will feel comfortable taking the lessons from their computer, especially older people not as familiar with technology as younger people and because there is no interaction to ask questions and get immediate answers. Although some courses do have a members only forum in which you can get an answer fast if you post a question there (in some cases, even the creator of the course is an active member of this forum), for older people this process could seem a little "cold".

Playing guitar lesson in front of your PC is something weird for many people, but watching professionally mastered DVD's with detailed lessons, while drinking a cup of coffee is definitely much more comfortable. With either option, you wouldn't get embarrassed if you fail in any lesson because you only watch the DVD's or the software.

No doubt that one of the worst things about buying an online guitar course is the lack of many advanced lessons. This is natural, since you probably wouldn't find a local guitar instructor that could teach you past intermediate level without paying an arm and a leg and because demand is dim for very advanced material, it doesn't make sense almost for anyone to create a course that cater that demand.

Although few people will prefer "personalized" lessons and will not be comfortable learning from their PC or watching a DVD, most people are very satisfied with this kind of learning, as it shows the majority of posts left in one of the guitar learning courses available on the Internet. The forum is somewhat like a classroom where you can interact with other people more or less in the same way. The creator of the course himself participates actively in the forum, answering questions and adding content in the case of this specific course.