Before recently, getting instruction in musical instruments like the guitar held high barriers for new learners, considering the difficulty presented with instructional literature that featured pages of alien-looking (to beginners) guitar scale and fingering charts, chord progressions, and sheet music that all required the presence of a live guitar tutor to help ‘decode’. Perhaps this high barrier is the reason for today’s high popularity of so-called ‘look and learn’ guitar lessons, which refer to a radical new way of guitar instruction using online resources and streaming video in conjunction with real tutors who professionally instruct student guitarists.
Look and learn guitar lessons are, by nature, the same method of instruction found in traditional guitar lessons with a live tutor. Yet, look and learn lessons also offer certain benefits due to the new media format of being online: students can skip ahead a few lessons or repeat those they may not have fully understood; they can pause/rewind/fast-forward the streaming videos during instruction to suit their individual learning schedule; the use of close-up shots on hand positions while video instructors demonstrate scales, chords, and while playing songs helps students achieve proper posture and optimal finger placement; the use of professional instructors as the video tutors effectively gives a student guitarist a comparable lesson when compared to traditional guitar lessons.
There are virtually no parts of a traditional guitar lesson that do not translate well into a ‘look and learn’ environment. Showing students how to properly tune a guitar can be simply and effectively presented compared to simply reading vague descriptions of how to do so in an instruction book/lesson manual. The repetition of seeing professional tutors on look and learn guitar lessons with proper seated positions and finger placement (especially for students that like to repeat these lessons more than one time) translates into retaining good playing practices that may/may not be as well communicated in a traditional guitar lesson. The orientation of look and learn guitar lessons on the internet makes for an easy way to quickly search online for more information when a particular part of the lesson intrigues a student, or calls for more research to fully grasp a concept.
Look and learn guitar lessons also typically provide their students with supplementary downloads to go along with the general instruction via streaming video. Using printable sheet music for practice lessons, perfectly-tuned digital audio samples and accompaniment, and certain other materials for specific techniques (i.e. transcribed guitar riffs from famous musicians, genre-specific licks and chord progression charts, etc.) the look and learn guitar lesson can be just as effective and even more flexible than traditional guitar instruction. Save for advanced students’ need to have a direct feedback and individualized learning from those trained to do exactly that in order to further their mastery of the guitar, look and learn lessons can be the answer to a new student guitarist’s prayers if they are looking for a cheaper, more flexible alternative of learning to play the guitar.
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