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You can cancel your membership at any time. After cancellation, you will retain full access to all content until the end of your currently paid billing period. There are many ways ways to cancel. The best would be:

• Directly from your user dashboard

• Via the cancellation form linked in the footer of every page

• By sending us a short message through the contact form

Yes. You can switch between billing cycles (for example, from a 3-month plan to a 12-month plan) and between membership variants at any time. Plan changes are processed manually to make sure everything is handled correctly on the billing side — please contact us via the contact form and we’ll arrange the switch for you.

Please note: Upgrades (e.g. from a shorter to a longer billing cycle, or to a higher-tier plan) take effect at the next renewal date, or immediately on request. Downgrades (e.g. from a longer to a shorter billing cycle) take effect at the end of your current paid period; we do not issue partial refunds for the remaining time of an already-paid cycle. Your statutory consumer rights remain unaffected.

Throughout your active membership, you have full access to the entire lesson library, including:

• More than 125 main lessons with over 200 hours of video material

• Sheet music as PDF (tablature, standard notation, lead sheets with chord diagrams)

• MP3 backing tracks, play-alongs and lesson tracks

• Our special “Play With Joscho” tracks, where you take over the rhythm role and accompany Joscho’s solo

• All guest lessons, including appearances by Tommy Emmanuel, Matteo Mancuso, Biréli Lagrène, Stochelo Rosenberg, Olli Soikkeli, Richard Smith, Adam Rafferty, and Gonzalo Bergara

Honestly, “basic” or “intermediate” mean something different to everyone, so it’s always hard to put a strict label on your playing level.

We do our absolute best to structure our lessons so that everyone has a chance to participate. In fact, you can easily jump into an intermediate lesson because we always make sure to include parts that are much more basic and easy to digest.

But let’s be real: this style of music is probably not the best place to start if you’ve just picked up the guitar for the very first time. You won’t find lessons here on “how to tune your guitar” or “how to play your first G chord” 😉
The best way to find out? Check out our free lesson on “Love Me Tender” (you’ll find the link right on our frontpage). If you can follow along with that, you are definitely ready for the Academy!

Yes — the entire academy works in any browser on iPad, phone, and desktop.