It wasn’t all that long ago that your only choice to learn guitar at home was the oh so glamourous VHS or dare I…. BETA tape or a Hal Lenorad guitar book.
A lot has changed with the coming of the Internet, not just how we do our banking, communicate and keep in touch with old friends but also how we educate ourselves and learn new things.
Sticking with the guitar concept the first big step was the ability to load half decent videos onto the web. This of course didn’t just take technology improvements but also required home PC and MAC users to have higher speed Internet connections so they could stream and/or download these guitar lesson videos.
Today now we have high quality video creation and production equipment available to almost anyone. It’s become so inexpensive to produce a good instructional or how to video almost anyone can put it together.
While complete interactive guitar lessons aren’t quite the norm yet they’re on their way.
New products like Leagacy Learning Systems Learn and Master guitar have come out with online support and community sites where students can ask questions directly of the instructor and get answers. While it’s not exactly in real time it does give a channel where by the student isn’t stuck if they have question.
Recently Emedia’s newest version of their guitar software came out and it has a recognition feature that knows if you’re playing the right notes of not. The feature is used by hooking a mic up to your machine and playing. The software then tells you if you’re playing correctly or not, this is very similar to how a lot of language software works.
The more technology grows the more interactive guitar lessons will become. While I don’t think we’ll reach a point where the guitar instructor is replaced for beginners the requirement is becoming less and less of taking private lessons.