I’ve finally found the holy grail of self-guided guitar lessons: Next Level Guitar (NLG). NLG was co-founded by Tim Gilberg (the tech guy) and David Taub (the guitar guy). Here’s a sample video tutorial: (one of over 400 on Youtube!)
I first saw these guys a few years ago on Youtube and thought what they were doing was pretty cool, although I wasn’t into guitar then. Since then, they’ve exploded online and are HUGELY successful on Youtube, ranking in the Top 20 Gurus there and having millions upon millions of views of their lessons.
Anyway, I was really excited to find their website because they have lessons in a format I love, i.e. small 10 – 15 minute chunks of tutorials with good explanations. They have a lot of nice features like picture-in-picture to show you closeups of the guitar and downloadable PDF files of associated content. Here’s their website:
http://www.nextlevelguitar.com/
They also have forums available for all kinds of guitar-related discussion. The forums require a separate account, which is free, although there is a “Premium” area for paying customers:
http://www.nextlevelguitar.com/aforum/
A couple years ago they ran into some legal trouble for showing people how to play copyrighted songs (what the heck do you think guitar teachers teach their students?? come on, entertainment industry), so you may notice that some of their songs are titled things like, “Free Guitar Lesson Inspired By Bob Marley” instead.
So as far as training goes, they start at the very basics and move you through to advanced material over the course of over 700 lessons. Holy cow! This will keep me busy for years 
As far as pricing goes, they offer both online subscriptions (watch the videos on their website) or DVD hardcopies of the tutorial lessons. The pricing is extremely competitive:
* $29 a month
* $75 for 3 months ($25 per month, savings of $4 a month)
* $139 for 12 months ($11.59 per month, savings of $17.41 a month)
In my neck of the woods, guitar lessons run $20 a session, so one lesson a week would run me $80 a month. $29 sounds pretty dang good compared to that, especially since I can break it down into one lesson a day, five days a week if I want to, and get 20 lessons a month for less than 1/2 the cost of what it would be locally. Awesome!
Purchase links: (you can pay with Paypal or with a Credit Card)
* These are not affiliate links and I’m not associated with NLG, I’m just linking directly to the website for your convenience 
Subscriptions:
Click here for the Online Subscription registration page
Click here for a free 3-day full-access trial to the online tutorials
DVD Sets:
Click here for the Guitar Instruction DVD Sets (complete listing)
NLG 1-4 DVD Set (8 hours of training) – $99
NLG 5-8 DVD Set (8 hours of training + Bar Chords Made Easy) – $129
NLG 9-12 DVD Set (over 8 hours of training) – $129
Value Bundle of DVD Sets 1-12 (over 24 hours of training) – $229
Blues Rock 4 DVD Set – $99
There are also over 30 “Learn to Play” DVD Song tutorials available for $25 each. You can buy 26 of the DVDs in a bundle for $199 (70% off). They’re also running a special on individual Song tutorials on DVD for $9 with free shipping.
I’m currently signed up for the free 3-day trial and honestly, I’ve never found any kind of guitar lessons – anywhere – better than this. I’ve been looking online daily for the past 2 weeks and there’s just nothing that compares to this. I’m excited to get started!
