Any recommended guitar course?

[chongjasmine]

I am mainly learning guitar to learn praise and worship songs. I want to worship God with the guitar.
I had 2 months of guitar instruction back in the past before I stopped due to financial constraints. I learnt the dduudu strum pattern during my guitar instruction class. It is a group instruction class.
I am interested in learning mainly to play praise and worship songs, as well as hymns and gospel songs.

From justinguitar, I learnt the D chord and A chord, though I struggle with them sometimes. I am currently using justinguitar as a resource. I may consider subscibing to either guitartricks or jamplay, though I am not sure which is better. These guitar sites are good, but they mainly teaches secular songs, and rarely, and most often not, have any praise and worship songs which I can learn.
I will really appreciate if someone can point me to a website that focuses on teaching praise and worship guitar, even if it is a dvd.

I prefer online video site with lifetime subscription, so that I don't have to pay again and again. I know of two websites, worship artistry and worshiponline that focuses on christian praise and worship but they are mainly songs and not techniques or styles or music theory.

I will like to learn guitar music theory, guitar strumming pattern and learn more guitar chords. I also hope to learn to move up and down the guitar fretboard and transpose with capo. As of now, I do not know how to use a capo.

Also, are there any guitar websites beside guitartricks, jamplay, truefire or artistworks that offer video instructions from beginner to advanced? Especially one that is focus on praise and worship? Or teaches songs that worship artistry and worshiponline doesn't cover?

Thanks for all the recommendations so far, will continue to look at more recommendations. I recently bought a FG830 Yamaha acoustic guitar and wonder if it works with praise and worship songs, or will an electric guitar suits me better? Also, which is better, guitartrick or jamplay or truefire?

Furthermore, I recently inherited a sum of US$1000 and will like to invest them on guitar course. Price is not an issue for me. What are some guitar accesories I should look up for and purchase, besides the capo, that will aid me in learning guitar? My budget after spending on FG830 is US$1000. Any course within that price range and is good will be considered by me. Thanks for reading!

[Crusoe]

Some people find an electric guitar easier to play as the strings can require less pressure to fret, but you do have to factor in the price of an amp and leads as well. IF you do decide to go down that route, Thomann do some very good bundle deals on guitar an amp. I got a telecaster style guitar and an amp for £150 and am really happy with it (the guitar is great, the amp is just ok, but will do for now). Justin Guitar's lessons are really good, so I'd say stick at them. Marty Music does some good ones too.

Edited September 21, 2022 by Crusoe
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[FrankAtari]

At the end of the day what you really need to learn guitar is motivation, a good guitar and a tuner. If you are smart enough and find good books you need no course, I promise. If I were you, I would keep the 1000$ with me as long as I could, for with time you'll learn what you need by yourself. Good luck and God bless you.

[Kiwi]

Passion is more important than guitar course, especially for beginners because of the learning curve.  Focus on learning how to play songs that you like first.  There are plenty of youtube tutorials out there for well known ones.  Pick a song with maybe three chords at most.  I started with Happy Birthday for my daughter and then progressed onto other childrens' songs before I started getting into things like Give A Little Bit (Supertramp) or Say Somethin' (Justin Beiber and Chris Stapleton).  Then I progressed onto a bit of Bon Jovi (Dead or Alive) and Chic (pretty much anything).  For me it's like play, I get to see if I can play something like I hear it on the radio.  Or practice singing and playing.  

[ezbass]

The first song (or at least the first verse) was Teach Your Children by CSNY. I was inspired by them and the lad who introduced me to them (he also played guitar and was über cool in my eyes) to play. When I landed those D (my first chords) G and A changes, I felt amazing (it was only years later I discovered there a nasty Bmin to contend with). So much better than learning something set as a task that you have little interest in. I recently learnt Zeppelin’s The Rain Song and have an arrangement I like as a solo piece, this gives me much joy as it’s a piece I like (I’m sure Lady Ez is a little tired of it though - sucks to be her, I’m still going to play it ).

[ezbass]

FWIW, I have completed a Musician’s Institute guitar course, but I took it after many years of playing and even then, my tutor often asked me what I wanted to learn and he shoe horned that into the curriculum.