Although mostly genre specific to blues, and grounded on acoustic and electric guitar, I found Blues Guitar Unleashed to be very similar in teaching style to B2B. I signed up for life membership many years ago and do not regret it. YMMV
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I refunded Paul’s course. I might check out his intermediate course someday. Going with Justin and GuitarTricks for now.
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Some others that offer free and paid content:
I heard Scallon has a beginner course.
Clearly this is the ultimate online guitar course … Who doesn’t want to be a Berzerker?
I would also highly recommend Steve’s GuitarZoom Music Theory Master Class - it builds the basics heavily and leaves you with a firm understanding of extended chords and modes and how to use them.
Truly a course that will allow you to teach others after going through it!
If I ever pick my guitar back up seriously again I’d go right back to my GZ lessons.
Steve Stine is awesome. Great teacher and super relatable
LOl ok I might have to check out Scallon’s course 
Oh yes. I haven’t even checked the pricing yet and I am pretty sure I am gonna try it.
(checked, same price as B2B and Paul Davids’ course)
Bought it. Initially looks like a great course to run alongside JustinGuitar; we’ll see 
Scallon is great.
197$ is steep for what seems to be free content elsewhere ., Rather recommend Justins Guitar to all beginners than this.
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I don’t know, I got a lot out of Josh’s course.
Justin is great though. It would be silly to ignore his excellent content; any course I buy would be used alongside Justin for sure. I’m probably halfway done in Justin’s Beginner course.
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Ok. Anyone looking for a beginner (very, very beginner) guitar course similar to B2B should check out Rob Scallon’s GuitarQuest.
Scallon is an engaging and entertaining teacher with a good sense of humor. The course is structured kind of like a role-playing game, where you meet him to fill in for a band member that overslept or something. He takes you through a number of fun contrived scenarios and teaches you the basics along the way.
Like Josh, he focuses on just the essentials and on playing actual songs from the very start. He’s also entertaining (much like on his normal channel, but this time, in a very positive teacher-like way).
The course has a lot of content (nine chapters with 10 or so modules each).
The only problem with it for me - it’s too basic. It’s tailored to someone who has never picked up an instrument before. By the end of the course it goes through a bunch of basics and gets you a long way - CAGED open chords, soloing, basic scales and theory, some expression like vibrato, etc - but stops short of stuff like barre chords, which is more where I am at.
As a result the course offered little for me, but it probably would for most people here if you have literally never tried a guitar before. I refunded, but not due to quality - it’s extremely well produced, entertaining, fun, and probably perfect for an absolute beginner.
As it stands, for a beginner who has the basics under their belt, Justin is still the way to go AFAICT. Paul Davids’ intermediate course is probably great but I am not there yet.
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Thanks for the review Howard! The Scallon course sounds like something my son would enjoy.
I might look into Paul Davids intermediate course too!
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I had a look at Guitar Quest, it is part of the offering at Guitareo Like you I found it too basic for my needs. It. Is certainly a different approach to playing guitar from scratch. It is definitely aimed at complete beginners.
I have a lot of guitar teaching material, sort of like a serial collector 
The ones I use the most are several Griff Hamlins blues courses and Justin Sandercoe.
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Yeah, really hard to beat Justin.
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FYI, Rick Beato has just released a new beginners guitar course.
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Wow, he makes me want to play the guitar even though I have zero interest
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It’s really a cute course, just was a bit too basic for me.
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