Guitar Trick; How To Fit 45 Guitar Teachers In Your Bedroom
By: John Mackinnon
In the late 1990s Jon Broderick searched the internet for online guitar instruction and came up empty handed. His frustrations lead to the creation of the Guitar Tricks website for which he claims to have pioneered online video guitar lessons.
At this point in time there are about 45 different instructors delivering over 3000 video lessons. Each instructor is an experienced guitarist and many are naturally gifted teachers. While some are less comfortable than others on camera they all seem to present an orderly logical progression to the lessons.
Who Will Benefit Most From These Online Video Guitar Lessons?
There are guitar courses for beginners that have never touched a guitar. There are also courses for intermediate to advanced students that cover most major genres of guitar music, techniques, popular songs as well as the individual style of many famous musicians.
Are These Lessons Designed For Electric or Acoustic Guitar Players?
The lessons are designed for a wide range of acoustic and electric guitars.
A Partial List Of The Lesson Categories:
Fundamentals, Blues, Country, Rock, Acoustic, Bluegrass, Blues, Classical, Country, Electric, Funk, Jazz, Metal, Rock, Rockabilly, Surf, World Music, Technique Studies, Individual Artist Studies and Popular Songs.
The Negatives
The videos had trouble running smoothly without stopping. It appeared that sometimes they just couldnt load fast enough to keep up with the playback. Changing the video to the lower quality setting drastically reduced the number of times it would stop without making a huge difference in the picture quality.
Guided Practice sessions, where the instructor actually practices with the student in order to teach the discipline of professional practice techniques, could be stronger.
I wish Guitar Tricks would offer a DVD set that contains all of the current lessons. This could avoid the time consuming task of downloading the videos for those that wish to view them offline.
The Positives
Guitar Tricks seems to make a significant effort to continually add new lessons and articles.
At this writing, Guitar Tricks covers more styles of guitar music than any other online company.
Their website is logically organized and very user friendly.
The video lessons can be downloaded directly to your hard drive if you prefer to view them without using the internet. This is especially helpful if your internet connection happens to be running slowly on a particular day.
With over 45 instructors, you are not limited by the strengths and weaknesses of just one teacher.
The lessons are well thought out, consistent in delivery and structure.
Support: Guitar Tricks supports its subscribers with a newsletter, a GT Channel which is a video lessons and tips newsletter, a forum with over 200,000 posts for asking questions of fellow students and instructors. There is also a support phone line and email address.
Guarantee: There is a 60 day, no hassles, money back guarantee.
The Bottom Line
This is an easy guitar lesson program to recommend for beginners and for more experienced players looking to refine their techniques, understanding of music theory or just to add a new playing style like Rockabilly to their repertoire.
I do still slightly prefer the Learn and Master Guitar DVDs for beginner guitar students primarily because Steve Krenz is my favorite video guitar instructor, the lessons have a little better detail and they offer guided practice sessions. However, Guitar Tricks is still a good number 2 choice for new players.
The bottom line is that no other guitar course offers as many options for instructors that teach so many genres of music, so many diverse techniques, so many studies of the famous guitarists and their songs all for only $14.95 per month. No matter which guitar lesson program you decide for your primary source to learn beginning guitar, this should be seriously considered as a companion study for everyone. Without a doubt Guitar Tricks ranks highly on my short list of recommendations.
Finding information about how to learn to play piano on line can be hard. Sites promising extraordinary results abound on the web. It would help a person immeasurably to have a music degree to help sort through all the possibilities and claims.
Everyone who plays piano started with the wish to learn. Learning to play can run the gamut from boring to exciting. Obviously the more exciting the more likely you are to have success. One of the things a new player should consider when deciding how to proceed with lessons is how engaging is the course being considered.
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Piano is the complete package as instruments go. Others only play a note at a time. A piano can play both melody line and harmony parts at the same time. The piano can encompass all parts.
Most have heard a gifted musican and felt the desire to play similarly. Some are content to play for their own enjoyment.
Likely as not you’ve pondered what is keeping you from being able to do the same and sit and play so seemingly effortlessly. The answer as to why not is likely to be found in a couple of areas: You had experience in the past with boring music lessons or you have no idea how to even begin. Some people simply don’t want to ’start over’ as a beginner.
To see a great site that reviews and ranks such courses check out; http://www.pianolessonsonlinefinder.com/best-of-the-best/
Things to seek out: start with courses that are exciting. Too often a new student gets caught up in the technical part and spends so much time drilling they forget about the fun part. While technique is undoubtedly important it does no good if the person taking the lessons gets burned out before they get to the point they can play well.
If the young beginner begins to think of lessons as a chore they will quit. Forced lessons will result in failed lessons.
Learning to play is the result of a good program that helps facilitate your goals. Your level of achievement is your last cosideration and will differ person to person. Remember, to arrive at ANY destination you must take a first step.
Try to find, through use of online review sites, courses that meet your requirements. Try to find those courses that meet your needs and that focus on the type of music you would like to play. You could seek out classes that are fun and activity based.
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Daler Mehndi  Ghatochkach An Animated Musical Movie
By: Ramesh Kumar
Ghatochkach, an animated musical 100 minute movie about mythological son of Bhim and his wife Hidimba released in India recently. The movie is about endless jungle adventures of Ghatochkach and lending voice to the animation project is amongst the best things that have happened to Daler Mehndi this year. Daler is happy with the way the promos of movies songs have come out. It was fun thing doing songs in animated version of Ghatochkach for Daler Mehndi. , though it is challenging and very different from dubbing a normal album song. A lot of emotions have conveyed through his songs and
Daler has worked very hard on getting it right. Daler has managed his vocals pretty well in playful sounding song Mayabazaar.
For children its sure a delight to watch a mythological character like Ghatatochkach with musical effects and few songs of the movie are in 3D animation. Story is rather musical, the songs Main hun Ghatothkach and Angalika bangalika are fun and other musical scores are excellent. Background music appears as if you never heard it before.
Daler has sung for hindi and tamil version .The movie has been released in 7 other languages.
Shemaroo Entertainment, who produced last year’s animated movie Bal Ganesh and Sun Animatics will be co-producing this movie. This Chennai based director’s movie will be screened at the Cannes film festival in France on May 17, and the film is scheduled to hit theatres on May 23. “Mayabazaars” scrumptiously hilarious wordings scripts out multi-cuisine food-specialties in humorous punches that are supposed to evoke heavy dosages of laughter in its animation display.
I come to this topic from the point of view of both a consumer and provider of music lessons. I am a consumer in the sense that I had the good fortune in my student days to be taught by some of the most respected musicians in their fields. A provider in that I have now been a teacher of musical instruments for over 35 years and have taught thousands of pupils in that time.
As a student I was grateful for the fact that I was able to tap-in to such unique and valuable expertise and guidance. I always found it frustrating though, between one lesson and the next, that there would be no one on hand to offer help when I needed it the most.
As a teacher I quickly became aware of that exact same problem, but in reverse.
For any pupil who decides to learn to play an instrument the format tends to be fairly standard: one lesson per week for an agreed length of time. This lesson length would be perhaps most commonly in the region of half an hour or an hour. Believe it or not, when I was teaching in schools it wasnt uncommon for lessons only to last for 15 minutes, and even at that your lesson would be shared with other students! Such are the limitations of budgets in public education. You would only expect a substantial increase in direct contact time with your teacher if you were fortunate and talented enough to be studying at the highest level at a conservatoire.
Even during this contact time its possible, as in all face to face at that moment teaching for things to be mis-heard, mis-interpreted, or simply not fully understood. That is valuable lesson time wasted for both student and teacher alike.
This is all nothing new. It has been thus for as long as mankind has sought to make music. Even as far back as the late 1980s I was experimenting with producing courses of music instrumental lessons on video tape with a view to students being able to refer to them between lessons with their teacher. In fact, I was even exploring the possibility of the student and teacher never even having to meet face to face in order to make lessons more accessible to more students remember those budget constraints? The problem was, at that time the technology was in its infancy and the results were at best cumbersome.
Yet now, in the 21st century with the advent of the Internet there are better and more efficient ways to learn any aspect of music, whether its the instrument of your choice, or simply how to read music. The combination of improved sound recording technology together with quality video recording means that lessons can now be recorded and made available to anyone at the click of a mouse. Whats more these lessons can be produced by the best in their field anyone can now have that access to the best teaching that I was fortunate enough to receive, but without having to attend a conservatoire.
In comparison with the cost of face-to-face lessons with such illustrious teachers the digital option also provides a much more affordable way of learning from the best, with digital courses costing a fraction of their face-to-face equivalents.
The problems of having to keep pace with a demanding expert teacher have also been eliminated. Video courses mean that a student can go at their own pace. If a point is missed or an exercise is misunderstood it is a simple matter to rewind and go over it again and again if needs be. In a live, face-to-face lesson, the words, the imparting of knowledge is there but for a moment and then it is gone. In a video lesson its there for perpetuity, to be re-visited on a whim.
We all have talent to a greater or lesser degree. For the talented, learning to play in the midst of others presents no problem. For the less talented it can equally be an embarrassing nightmare until your skills begin to develop. With video tuition, all of those problems are removed. Not only can you learn at your own pace, but you can also do it in the privacy of your own home.
So, what can you learn in this way? Well, in the field of music the possibilities are endless. There are courses available in all the popular instruments. When it comes to the guitar for example, as well as the basics you can choose to learn in whatever style takes your fancy, rock, classical, folk, rhythm & blues, jazz, country.
Not only instruments are covered. There are courses available to teach you recording and studio techniques, how to be a successful DJ, even down to the best way to get yourself known in the business and how to land that elusive contract.
As I say, the possibilities are endless. Its just a case of choose your interest and then go out and have yourself some serious fun!
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