Guitar Hotshot Review

Guitar Hotshot

At first glance, Guitar Hotshots looks like a new website that teaches guitar using online video. In reality, GuitarHotshot.com is a reincarnation of a widely-known guitar lesson scam known as Music Master Pro, which we’ve reviewed on this site before.

Guitar Hotshots is taught by guitarist Jamie Lewis, (also known as Jay Dynasty on MusicMasterPro.com) who allegedly is a professional guitar teacher and recording artist in New York, NY.

Features

Essentially, not much has changed from Music Master Pro. However, one thing that has changed from the Music Master Pro course is that there are now 15 additional low-quality videos (Yay!). The bad news is that they still look like an amateur filmed them with a wobbly webcam. Also, the audio is still just as bad. Video clips typically range from 2-4 minutes long, and are in the flash video format.

What about the actual video content? Most of the videos go something like this: “See me do this? Now go ahead and try to figure it out. Good luck.” We can’t really see Jamie Lewis being a real guitar teacher, as his lesson quality and teaching techniques are absolutely appalling.

Oh, and you know when they said on the homepage that you can download the videos after ordering? Well, they didn’t really mean that. When we tried to download the video lessons to our PC, we were told that to do that, we’d have to “upgrade” our membership for another $20.00 so we could have the privilege of watching the videos offline. Can anyone say "bait and switch"?

Just for fun, we’ll address a few more promises Guitar Hotshots makes on their sale page:

- Access to “Over 10,000 counted riffs, solos, scales and licks” – This “ultimate resource” is nowhere to found on GuitarHotshots.com, plain and simple.

- “Become a master of music theory” – Call me a skeptic, but how in the world am I supposed to become a music theory “Master” when all you give me is a single 12-page document?

- "Access to an “Extensive library of every scale, chord, arpeggio and groove known to man” – Hmmm… that actually sounds more like something you’d find on a REAL guitar lesson site, because I can't find it here...

- “Learn to play guitar in every style rock , metal classical, jazz fusion , Latin folk country and more” – In the introductory video, Jamie Lewis promises that GuitarHotshot.com will be bringing in more diversified guitar talent to teach different genres of guitar. That still hasn’t happened yet.

-  “52 video lessons” – There are only 32 short flash video clips. I’m just wondering if this is a case of not being able to tell a “5” from a “3” or just false advertising. We’ll go with the latter.

- “40 Hours of Intensive Guitar Lessons on Video” – Turns out that not only is there not 40 hours of video on GuitarHotshot.com, but you can’t even download them without coughing up an extra $19.95.

There are plenty more things we could take Guitar Hotshot to task on, but we don’t think there’s any point to discuss their program any further. It’s just unfortunate that websites like these give legitimate online guitar courses a bad reputation.

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Ordering Information

The payment processor Guitar Hotshots uses is Clickbank, which means that if you were unfortunate enough to have purchased this course, you have up to 60-days to apply for a refund. Don’t ask GuitarHotShot.com for the refund, as they will not get back to you, but instead apply directly here.

Conclusion

Guitar Hotshot is a perfect example of an online guitar lesson scam. Avoid like the plague. If you are still looking for a low-cost guitar lesson package for beginners, we would highly recommend that you check out our review of Jamplay, which is the best in its category and price range.

Official Guitar Hotshot Website