This Blog is about Music Guitar Tuition, Music Programs and Studio Software. (Formally a Squidoo Lens, I've moved over to Blogger for their better features and better integration with other applications. Blogger is better)!
I was a music teacher for 30 years, running my own Yamaha Music School for about 10 years. One thing I know, is that a lot of people want to learn to play an instrument, or progress a talent they have already.
Problems arise, when people discover the cost of learning to play with a private tutor. The cost alone can be prohibitive. Then there are the lesson time availability, music lessons can be hard to fit in, especially if you are a work-a-holic or work unusual or shift times!
Once a music lesson is done, there's usually no-replay. It is a live event, if you don't understand something or take it in the first time, it can slow the lesson plan down. This is especially annoying if you take class lessons and someone else cannot get something you find really simple! The teacher is hung, explaining what he requires over and over to get one person into the game.
Bad teachers, the ones who do not move quickly on to teaching a student in a different mode or giving the individuals in a class too much time, instead of simply giving them something else to do and recommending they take private lessons to catch up with the rest of the class.
All these things hold you back as a student. Do you recognise some of these things, do they happen in your class. Is your private one to one music lesson expensive and hard to fit in.
You should consider some of the fantastic online music tuition programs & music tuition courses. Play guitar courses are a rapidly expanding market, this is good for students, because each purveyor seems to want to out-do the competition with more and more features and step-by-step videos and audios.
Guitar tuition courses in particular have come down in price over the years and you'd be hard pressed to get all the content contained in some of these online and down-loadable courses in the physical world for the same price.
Obviously, as a novice, you cannot always judge if you have accomplished the task set in the course, without a real live tutor to confirm that what you are playing is what was taught and expected in the course.
If this is a concern for you, I suggest you choose a music tutor program with a members forum or some sort of live help.. I will try to identify these for you, read through me recommendations and visit the respective sites to investigate each program before making your decision..
It is difficult to keep-up with all of the new items added at each site, but this is a good thing for you as the student. It is far better for you to check out the sites to see if their particular style and method is for you. To help you choose, I have only listed the ones my own students have used / are using..
Andy...
