You Tube as Your Music Teacher?

Tips to think about when considering free music lessons on You Tube

YouTube is a great medium for creative video exchange. It’s fun and entertaining and often very informative and educational. But is it the right place to learn how to play an instrument? Well that’s your call. Here are some tips to think about that will help you make an ‘educated’ decision.

Although you can find thousands of free videos that ‘teach you’
how to play guitar or piano, drums or bass, it’s very questionable as to whether or not you should use them as your only method of musical instruction.

Why not?

The reason is that most of the videos featured on You Tube are produced by amateurs, so the video itself may have bad sound quality, bad image, and an unorganized structure. These negative features of amateur videos lend themselves to more of a negative impact on someone who is trying to use them to learn an instrument, than a positive one.

Another factor that you have to be careful of with these videos is whether or not the instructor in the video is actually a ‘qualified’ music instructor. You really need to take into consideration their background in teaching music. If you do find a particular instructor that you ‘feel’ is ‘qualified’, do a little investigational work; try to find out their credentials. If the video is using someone without the knowledge or correct techniques, that instructor could lead you to misunderstand concepts of music and you could also injure yourself by applying an incorrect technique that they may be using to teach you.

Online music lessons, music instruction videos, and music lessons on DVD, can be very affordable, convenient and useful. You as the consumer are ultimately the deciding factor in what is the best learning tool for you. Just keep this in mind: Being a good performer doesn’t necessarily make you a good teacher. Be careful; be educated.

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