Online Guitar Lessons Or Traditional Guitar Lessons With a Teacher? The Pros and Cons By Guillermo Pareja

Do you want to learn how to play guitar, but you don't know if you can go by yourself with online guitar lessons or if you have to go with a real teacher? In this article I explain the pros and cons of both.

It is always great to learn guitar with a teacher because guitar teachers usually become your friends because the teachers and the students share the same passion... the guitar.

Here are the pros and cons of learning with a guitar teacher.

Pros:

• With normal lessons you will practice guitar with other people, share experience and make new friends and that is great!
• If you have any question you can ask the teacher and have a real time answer.
• If you feel stuck with something in particular like Tapping or Sweep Picking your teacher can tell you how he get through it and prepare special exercises for your needs.

Having a guitar teacher is great, but there are some possible cons too.

Cons:

• Guitar lessons with a teacher use to be expensive, for something like 3 hours of guitar lessons with a teacher you can have like a whole year of online guitar lessons.
• Maybe you don't have the time to take guitar lessons in a music school, it is really hard to take guitar lessons with a teacher if you have a full time job or if you want to spend more time with your girlfriend or boyfriend, children and family.
• If you have bad luck, like i had many times, you can get a bad teacher and pay a lot of money for nothing. I tried several guitar teachers until i found a good one, having a bad guitar teacher can discourage you if you are just beginning with the guitar.

Now lets see the pros and cons of online guitar lessons. If your budget is limited and you don't have enough money for guitar lessons with a teacher you can go with online guitar lessons, there are great online guitar courses in today's market.

Pros:

• Online guitar lessons are really cheap and you can have lessons for a whole years for the same price that just a few hours with a guitar teacher.
• You can practice and study guitar at any time, they are ideal if you have a full time job or if you are very busy with school or college.
• Some of them are really great learning systems that make all the guitar learning process something fun, they give you cool exercises like classic and modern rock songs. You need to have fun while you practice because learning how to play guitar is a long process and you have to enjoy it if you want to become a good guitar player.

Now lets see the cons of online guitar lessons.

Cons:

• If you learn guitar just in your home you won't be in contact with other musicians, this is not a real problem if you already have friends that are guitarists, drummers, bassists or any other kind of musician.
• You can't ask anybody for more info, but then again this is fixed if you have friends that are musicians or if you ask in online forums

Remember that it doesn't really matters if you go with online guitar lessons or if you take lessons with a guitar teacher, there is something more important than that... and that is you. You are the only one who will play and learn guitar for you, your guitar teacher can't play guitar for you. You need to be committed with your guitar to learn fast, if you are really committed with you learning process you will learn how to play guitar in a fly.

Playing guitar is an awesome thing and it feels great, if you want to learn how to play guitar just do it!