Questions & Answers with Neil Hogan -  #2

Q. How would you compare online guitar lessons with the traditional face-to-face lesson in a studio?

A. I have recently been looking into the possibility of giving online guitar lessons. After many years of teaching privately, meaning one student at a time, I was wondering if I could use the web to reach out to a much broader audience.

Some advantages to online guitar lessons are obvious; the ability to reach a worldwide audience, the student is able to take their lesson at any convenient time and view it as often as they like, and the teacher has a library of lessons they can refer to and reuse over a long period of time.

There are of course some disadvantages to guitar lessons online as well. The main thing I can do in a live private lesson is get immediate feedback from a student that tells me whether they are understanding me or not. I can then reword or modify my explanation until they get it. We will have to be able to implement some kind of program where we can see a video of the student and comment on it.

I don’t think there will ever coma a time where web-based lessons will replace the traditional teacher-student interaction but I do believe there is a market for this type of learning. I hope that we at Totally Guitars can be a big part of this new and exciting technology as it evolves.

I also know I will never abandon my faithful students who make the weekly trek to come see me.

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