How to know if online guitar lessons are for you? In this post i explain the pros and cons of taking “normal” guitar lessons and online guitar lessons.

Its always great to have a real teacher with you, usually they become friends cause you both have the same passion… the guitar.

Pros:
- With normal guitar lessons you’ll make friends and play with other people, talk about guitars and share experience… that’s great!

- If you have a question, you can just ask the teacher and have a real time answer.

- If you feel stuck with something in particular (tapping, sweep picking) your teacher can tell you what he did to get through it.

But like everything, there are always some Cons.

Cons:
- Guitar lessons with a teacher use to be expensive, for something like 3 hours of lessons with a teacher you can have online guitar lessons for a whole year.

- Maybe you don’t have the time to take lessons in a music school, its really hard to take lessons with a teacher if you have a full time job or want to spend more time with your girlfriend, children or whatever. With online guitar lessons you can study and practice in your home at any time.

- If you have bad luck (like i had) your teachers can be assholes and teach you in a wrong way making you lose time and money… and that sucks. If you’re just beginning its hard to tell if a teacher will be great for you before some months, then its easier to realize that kind of stuff but i lose a lot of time and money in bad teachers in my beginnings.

Now lets talk about Online guitar lessons, they have Pros and Cons too. Nowadays there are some great courses in the market so if you can’t have lessons with a teacher check them!

Pros:
- They’re really cheap and you can have lessons for a whole year (or even more) for less than just a few hours with a teacher.

- You can practice and study anywhere at any time, they’re ideal if you have a full time job or want to spend the day with friends, girlfriend/boyfriend, children or your family.

- Some of them like Unlock the Guitar are really great learning systems, you can learn how to play scales, chords and other techniques by playing cool classic and modern rock songs, making the learning process something fun is a MUST cause you’ll be practicing for a long time and if the lessons are boring you won’t be motivated to continue.

Now lets check the Cons.

Cons:

- If you learn just in your home you won’t be in contact with other musicians, this isn’t a real problem if you already have friends that play guitar, bass, drums or whatever.

- You can’t ask anybody for more info, but then again this is fixed if you have musician friends or if you ask in forums… its all about to get in contact with the people who know about this.

Remember this, it doesn’t really matters if you take traditional guitar lessons with a real teacher or if you take an online course, there is something more important than that… and that’s YOU.

You NEED to be committed with your instrument, it doesn’t matter if you have the best teacher in the world or if you downloaded the best guitar course of the whole Internet, they can’t play guitar for you… if you really want to play guitar and if you’re really committed in your learning process you’ll learn in a fly.

Playing guitar is an awesome thing and it feels great to learn more and become a better player, you don’t need to be a guitar god to enjoy guitar like them… if you start playing you won’t be disappointed.

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