Online Guitar Lessons
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Guitar, piano, and ukulele lessons are available online at the Guitar Academy. To ensure you have an optimal experience, here are some tips to get prepare before your lesson.
Better preparation
=
Better experience
Better Learning
More Fun!
Equipment
- The internet connection must be at least 30 megabits/sec. down – 10 megabits/sec. up. The more powerful and stable the connection, the better the quality.
- The platform used: it will depend on your teacher, but most often it is Skype or Zoom for windows or Facetime.
- Use a laptop or desktop computer. Tablets and cell phones can work, but their processors are not powerful enough to transmit sound correctly.
- A decent pair of headphones with a microphone or good speakers will allow you to hear the teacher well.
- A second webcam can be very handy, but not essential.
- A printer.
Location
- If possible, be alone and choose a quiet room such as a bedroom or an office. Avoid overly reverberating rooms such as the kitchen or living room, as this affects the quality of the sound picked up by your computer’s microphone.
- The computer must be on a desk, facing the face and upper body, even higher and oriented downwards – You can activate the camera during installation in order to see your position.
Teaching materials and course content
- Music lectern or a clean desk with your sheets, pencils, and eraser.
- Although the professor prepares the material in advance as much as possible (finding music, sending scores via the Internet, finger notations), it’s not possible to prepare everything. A part of the time spent online will also be used to complete this material: score annotation, another scan, video / audio recording.
- You can record the course via the platform recording functions or with a screen recording software.
Schedule, cancellation/rescheduling
- The course schedule is to be seen with the teacher assigned to you, depending on the availability indicated in the registration form.
- Classes start and end according to the schedule. Please test your connections to the platforms beforehand.
- If you need to cancel your online lesson, you must notify your teacher 24 hours in advance, otherwise, the course will be charge.