Learning Guitar on the Web

The principal advantages of deciding to be taught to play guitar on the net are convenience and actual cost. You can schedule your instruction around the time you have available and avoid having to travel to the location of a tutor regularly. You also save a lot of money, based on the fact that you are not paying for the private attention of a one-on-one tutor.

In fact, you can be taught as swiftly with a web tutor as you might with an web or disc-based language teacher. Naturally, some net-based guitar instruction programs are better than others and so you might desire to take a bit of time and forethought in picking out the best course for you. That said, a regular schedule and an efficient tutor along with a rapid web connection will make the learning process quick and satisfying.

You can choose between net-based schooling from a recognized guitar school or specialized lessons from instructors on the social networks like Face Book and My Space. My recommendation is to pay for training from a recognized, net-based school because you will obtain regular, quick results from carefully-tested video modules. There are  ‘free ‘ lessons on the net but, as the old axiom says, “You get what you pay for.”

There are also web-based “master classes” where you can learn novel ways of doing things along with improvisations. You can choose between pre-taped tested coaching or two-way interaction with a class. If you attend a web-based class, you will probably be required to have a web cam and wear a headset with a microphone.

The chief advantage of going the schoolroom route is the fact that you get response and progress monitoring by a skilled tutor at a fraction of the cost of private lessons. As you are, no doubt, aware, practice makes perfect. Regular practice no less than 20 minutes per day is a necessity if you are to be a successful guitar student.

In the beginning, you will be devoting the largest part your practice time to becoming skilled at chords and scales. While this is nowhere near as much fun as playing songs, it is a needed precursor to that. You will gain knowledge of the C, A, G, E and D chords and then branch out into variations of those basic chords.

Learning to play the guitar can be a bit physically uncomfortable, at first. You need to learn to press down on the frets with the ends of your fingers (not the pads) and until you build calluses, the strings may feel like metal cables pushing into the ends of your fingers.

Where you press is very crucial to the sound you will be turning out. If you hear a buzzing noise included in the sound of the note, that’s indicating that you are not pressing down in exactly the right place. As I said, practice makes perfect, so stay with it though the difficult part and you will acquire the gift of a lifetime: Musical self-expression.

It's easy to find web-based guitar lessons. A simple search for "guitar lessons" or "learn guitar" on Google, Yahoo or Bing should net you lots of possibilities both good and bad. To quicken the process so you can go directly to exceptional web-based lessons, check out the links on this page.

© 2011 Robert M. Gillespie, Jr.