A few months ago, I purchased my first Guitar. And, being a techie and all, decided to learn playing it "on-line". The wife thought that to be impossible and started making arrangements for me to see sense in a few weeks and join a proper coaching class.... and time went by.
A few minutes back a friend askedme how my online learning experience was. And While answering to that question, I realized two things -
A. Thre are four score and twenty people out there who spend time, energy and often money to put up online resources for novices to learn.
B. I actually did better than some of those who had taken classes around the same time.
What made my online experience such a high?
Quality of content? Yes.
Availability os content when I had time? Yes.
Audio Video support? Yes.
But, most of all was the "freedom". Freedom to delve into what attracted me, try and and move on when something else attracted me. And freedom to keep doing this untill I found what I wanted to do with the Guitar.
I started at the very basics that defined and explained different parts of the Guitar. Then I tried finger exercises, Chords, Complex Chords, Tabs, Bar Chords, Playing a song, Filler and what not. And finally settled on playing song TABS.
While playing tabs, I realized that chords were necessary and learnt them one at a time (still learning).
What happened here is, I chose my teacher, rather an amalgum of multiple teachers, I chose my course material, I decided my pace and the best I set my own Syllabus!
No one told me I should learn 5 chords before getting into tabs.I had a target set, and I chose tha path best suiting me to that target. Result? An extremely satisfying experience and skills aquired which were at par with the average conventional student.
Another thing I learnt,nothing to do with the Guitar is, that there are people who want to give. For no other reason apart from the joy of sharing. Articles, Tutorials, Images, Videos...so much resource created painstakingly and uploaded for all to use and learn. All well indexed and sorted as per the level of the learner.....Amazing. No physical group could give me so much, in so little time and so well tailored to my shifting moods and whimses that this virtual community called WEB gave me.
Truly, the WEB is a community far batter and far resourceful that any physical community you could care to name. Al lI want to do is, some day, give back to the community I take so much from every day.
Give good qality and give it free!
