Guitar Lessons - Which to Choose?

[Dominick Harvey]

With all the excitement generated by thinking about signing up for
guitar lessons it is easy to become bedazzled with the array of guitar
lessons advertised online and in the real world. You might feel that
you just want to sign up for your guitar lessons, go to sleep and wake
up being able to play the guitar. Well, it is not quite as easy as
that. Having to decide which guitar lessons suit your needs best takes
a little contemplation. Take a good look at what is available to you
in the realm of guitar lessons.
First, there is one-on-one lessons. You have a guitar player sitting
in front of you trying to find some way to help you become a guitar
player. This guitar teacher will charge you by the hour or the term,
and give you some material to learn, and maybe some sharing of
personal experience mixed with an effort to pass on some of the wisdom
he has gained over his years playing music. This guitar teacher is
engaged in teaching to put money in his pocket. He wants to teach the
largest number of students that he can handle with the least trouble.
This kind of guitar teacher used to be the only kind you could get,
but now that guitar lessons can be packaged and transmitted over the
internet, things are different. With online lessons you have some guy
who knows something about the guitar who wants to get rich by
marketing guitar lessons. He has a few thousand bucks at his disposal
so he can put together some guitar lessons on video, back it up with
some printed tabs and sheet music and sell it on the internet. Your
online guitar lesson guy can afford to charge you much less than your
local guitar teacher because he is not constrained by the number of
students he can fit into his schedule - he can get thousands of people
with guitar websites or blogs to sell his lessons for him.
Not only can you get a high quality set of guitar lesson videos but
you will get some kind of feedback system where you can ask questions
or make suggestions to your teacher and get a reply back by email or
video. On top of that when you are browsing online guitar lesson
packages, you will be seeing guitar teachers picked from anywhere in
the world for their enthusiasm and ability, not for their location.
Okay, now that I have inadvertently given away my prejudice towards
online guitar lessons, let us talk about specialization. You can get
acoustic guitar lessons which will lean more towards acoustic guitar
stuff like strumming patterns, open tunings and muting. Electric
guitar lessons teach all that stuff too but with different emphasis
plus lessons on note bending, sliding and fret board tapping.
After looking at the variety of guitar lesson choices available to the
novice guitarist I hope that I have not left you more confused than
ever. My final suggestion is when in doubt about which is the best
guitar lesson package just jump in and go for whichever appeals to you
and remember that you get a money back guarantee.