Is it possible to learn guitar at home?
The SoloBand.net fast, easy, and fun way to play guitar is an adaptation of “learning guitar at home in the 1950s”.
Move ahead 70 years, and you can now do the same lessons on your computer. Only it’s faster, easier, and more fun.
In one month of lessons (25$), you’ll not only know how to play all 7 of the major chords, but you’ll also learn to play the tempo, strumming style, and lyrics.
After you finish your one-month membership (if you’ve made an effort), you’ll know how to play guitar well enough to play thousands of songs. So you can cancel your membership and keep playing — OR
You’re welcome to continue your membership, and learn some techniques to improve your skills. (SoloBand also has 60 play-along videos to help you improve). Give them a try.
You are completely in control. You decide!
What services does SoloBand offer?
After I decided to retire, I thought I’d build a website to share some of my 50 years of experience with a younger generation. My first thought was to sign up for some online guitar lessons to understand what was available.
I was surprised to find how many people were looking for guitar lessons, how poorly they were being taught, and how long the lessons lasted. I found that what’s available is even worse than the 1950s, (before the internet existed). I couldn’t believe the costs involved… It looked to me like a total rip-off.
So I created my SoloBand.net website for three distinct purposes.
1) My first Service is to offer a completely different system for learning guitar.
Back in the 1950s there was no Internet, no YouTube, no Google, no online gurus scamming people, and music teachers (who hated Rock ‘n’ Roll) only taught classical music. Sounds pretty bleak, right?
But in spite of everything, we had a secret way of learning guitar that was fast, easy, and fun… and it didn’t cost a dime.
2) The second service my soloband.net website offers is an advanced way of playing guitar.
When I first started, I was very interested in playing guitar instrumentals. So I spent over a year practicing instrumental melodies.
During that time, I was with some friends, target shooting, and I was accidentally shot through my left hand (my chord playing hand). Doctors said I’d never be able to play guitar again.
I was determined.
They were wrong.
By the time I was 17, I started my first 4-piece band playing in local community halls. We had drums, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, and I sang vocals and played my rhythm/melody guitar.
Today, when I combine rhythm chords and melody together. I use the term Quantum Guitar to describe a method of playing that is spontaneous and beyond mental control.
The Quantum Guitar method adds a unique sound that captures the audience’s attention.
3) The third service soloband.net offers is a complete “play for fun and profit” local musician system. Using MIDI backing tracks, performers can play as a solo “one-man” band in their own home for fun or in local communities for profit.
For over 30 years, I played as a local vocalist in 3- and 4-piece bands. Then I started my own band and began playing at local dances, first as a trio, then, after a few years, as a duo (with my wife playing keyboard).
But we were getting more bookings, as many other bands disappeared. I didn’t pay much attention at the time, but, after the 1980s, almost all local bands had vanished.
Years later, I started performing solo, still a local musician.
I purposely created MIDI backing tracks that would mimic a real local band, with bass, drums, and keyboard, while I performed as a vocalist and guitar player.
With MIDI backing tracks of bass, guitar, drums, and keyboard, you can silence any instrument you play on stage, e.g., bass, guitar, or keyboard, and you have a backing track that meets your needs.
SoloBand performers can succeed because they sound like a four-piece band but get paid as a single performer.