Re: Octave Mandolin Course
Originally Posted by
yarnivore
I'm a little anxious, because I've never taken proper music lessons, but I'm signed up and eager to start! For now I have a tenor guitar with a 23" scale tuned GDAE, with dreams of a GBOM for my future. I figure if I do well and enjoy the class, I'll be justified in splashing out on a new instrument.
I can understand being a little anxious having never taken lessons before but Matt is an excellent teacher and his on-line set up for teaching is comprehensive with chat capability during the weekly zoom lesson AND during the weekly practice session, an on-line forum for getting more follow up help from Matt AND other students as well a slow video for each tune for ensuring correct pick direction AND usually two to three MP3 versions of each song played at various speeds. He typically provides charts with chords and standard and tab notation a few minutes before each class. You can later save the videos and MP3s to your hard drive for review after the course is finished. This is a surprisingly comprehensive approach to teaching and one of the best teaching formats I've experienced anywhere. So, be anxious if you must, but relax in knowing that you have chosen one of the best teachers with one of the best online teaching formats currently available. Your tenor guitar tuned to GDAE should be fine.
-Scotty
Play that which you feel is groovy, get down with your bad self, and shake your money maker if it makes sense for you to do so.
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