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    Thursday, January 19th, 2012
    2:57 am
    The Difference Between Taking Guitar Lessons Online Versus a personal Instructor
    Learning to play the guitar on the internet is quickly catching on and lowering the number of students who enroll to consider private guitar lessons from local teachers and instructors. This really is not new obviously since the Internet continues to be changing the way you do many things in the last decade. However when it came to visual demonstration of things such as guitar or piano lessons it took a while for that technology to catch up.

    Early attempts to provide online guitar lessons failed due to slow Online connections, expensive video production equipment and lack of software to well make things look great.

    Fast forward ahead to today there are lots of people who are taking guitar lessons on the internet and more following suit every day. Whether you have to pay for any membership for an online guitar course or study from free guitar lesson videos there are some main differences that beginners should know before they decide to go the path of teaching themselves through the web.

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    Lesson Structure

    When you take private guitar lessons it's not necessary to worry as well as consider what you are going to learn next. In the end that's why you're paying $15-$20 a week for you personally lesson right?

    There's great structure found when you take lessons from the quality teacher. Obviously there are some instructors are lacking structure too. As we compare that to online lessons you will find that many of the membership websites available give a ton of lesson content however they don't have the structure some beginners need. This sometimes mean that beginners remain with gaps within their knowledge afterwards because they missed a vital concept.

    Practice Routines

    Like lesson structure receiving an exercise routine means all you have to concentrate on is what you're told. Your instructor lets you know to practice the C major scale until you can fluently play it Ten times without errors. Which means you go back home that week and each day you practice the C major scale trusting that there's a valid reason why your instructor has asked you need to do so.

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    With guitar lessons online you are not always given a routine to practice. You're often left as much as your personal to decide what topics are essential enough that you should practice each week, and just how much time you should spend watching new videos versus practicing the material you've already watched.

    Accountability

    While lesson structure and practice routines tend to be more an analog a part of lessons this last difference is actually about mindset.

    Whenever you take private guitar lessons you're paying someone else to teach you how to play the guitar. There is a built-in accountability there for many. No one wants to look like a fool in front of their teacher if they haven't even acquired their guitar all week to practice. Not to mention your weekly lesson fee starts to be a huge waste of money. This accountability assists in keeping beginners on the right track and also pushes them with the often boring and tedious beginner topics of learning notes on each string, scales and mastering scale shapes.

    With internet lessons it does have a special type of person to achieve the self motivation and discipline to show themselves and stick to an exercise schedule. After all the only person you're responsible to when you teach yourself is you.
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