Online lessons offer unique advantages. If you’re curious about it and wonder what it would be like to take some, this article might clear it up for you.
Let’s face it: online communication is our reality and so is education, particularly music education. Many professional musicians and some of the world’s best music institutions use online teaching as an integral part of their study. So if it works for professionals so well, why is it that online music education is restricted to professionals and not available broadly for everyone?
That is why we started MyMusicSchool.com – to bring you the best music education!
1) You need high quality feedback to improve your skills – online lessons deliver it in real-time
There are many small online music schools but all offering just the regular tutorial stuff with pre-recorded video content with no feedback or live interaction. But this will only get you as far as you are able to correctly repeat the video content. You are the only person to judge whether that was correct or not. And learning an incorrect technique or phrasing can take years to correct. While this might work for some exercises and students, there is something better: a real teacher who provides you with feedback! Ask any professional musician, they can tell you the difference.
At MyMusicSchool.com we specialize in high quality music lessons with an innovative and state-of-the-art approach, no matter if offline or online. In order to make them available to more students no matter which place, we chose the online channel.
One important characteristic of a music lesson which cannot be left out is direct feedback. Since singing or playing an instrument involves physical activity and requires complex physical coordination there is a high risk of doing thing the wrong way. Missing direct feedback is why tutorials or apps do not do the job. Students who only learn with tutorials or apps risk to high frustration, doing things the wrong way and in the end losing much time. Since tutorials and apps cannot react to you and correct you, music lessons require a live teacher to correct you and give feedback. And if it is a professional in his/her field, the feedback is of highest quality. That is the reason why we at MyMusicSchool.com decided to offer students live tutoring with professionals – it is thequickest and most effective way to learn and progress in music.
To handle the online teaching well we have developed our very own methods and materials to make sure the learning flow is uninterrupted. With the aid of high-quality teaching materials we provide all information necessary and give you a real live music experience. And we provide you with feedback and improvement suggestions right on the spot. This way you’re getting instant feedback and detailed explanations of the subject.
2) The quality of your lessons depends a lot on your teacher! With online lessons, you can easily find a professional teacher that suits your needs
Online music lessons offer unique possibilities and advantages compared to offline-lessons. The challenge with online music is to provide the student with the real music experience.
Yet the quality of the teaching matters a lot. If you ask a professional musician why they are where they are now, the answer is often their teacher and great teaching. And this is the same reason why many students have stopped playing their instrument: bad teaching. So the right teacher makes a crucial difference!
Average teaching taken online will not get you any further than average teaching offline. But great teaching will! And as professionals in music and music education we wanted to provide you with the best teaching experience. This is why at MyMusicSchool.com you will only find select teachers from the top music institutions worldwide (who you might not have met offline at local music school), who can share with you their insights and experiences .
What about the teacher being present? Since there’s not (yet) a 3D person in front of you you may expect that the teacher-pupil contact would be limited. According to our experience it takes a couple of minutes to get used to it. But then both, student and teacher get into the flow. And you will soon discover that you can learn as much or even more this way. At the end of the day it’s the teacher’s responsibility to ensure productive lessons, no matter what medium is used.
We find that you deserve the best music education. That’s why we offer you a real music experience online with live lessons with real and professional teachers.
3) Flexibility with location
The most obvious thing about online lessons is that the teacher and the student don’t even have to meet at the same physical place. And yes, it possible to study with a person located on a different continent. As long as there’s good internet connection, distance doesn’t matter at all in fact. Abandoning travel times is a huge improvement saving time and money. In the old days, teachers and students had oftentimes spend about the same time traveling as the actual lessons were.
With online lessons you save time, energy and money. Since with our online teaching, getting high quality lessons at the place of your choice is a reality, you are likely to never go back to commute to a music school ever again!
4) Flexibility in scheduling
Saving traveling efforts is one advantage, scheduling is a another huge one. The way MyMusicSchool.com set up you can book a lesson with a chosen teacher anytime they are available. This works so well because the booking system is synchronized with the personal calendars of the teachers. Instead of spending time on trying to find the date that fits both of you, you get an overview of all the possible times and simply book the desired hour. Using the calendar on the website is made easy for both students and teachers.
At the same time, cancelling and rescheduling your lesson is as easy as booking it in the first place. At traditional music schools, student make contracts and pay for their lesson each week. If they cannot make it, they still have to pay. Non such at MyMusicSchool.com If you cancel your lesson up to 24 hours beforehand, you won’t get charged. So you will keep your money’s worth.
5) You get more value for money
At many traditional music schools you might be surprised that price per lesson seems comparably cheap. But read the fine print! In most cases, you will have to pay during state holidays as well, even though there are no lessons taught. In Germany for example, mere holidays can add up to 10 weeks per year. Add a couple of cancellations because you call sick or attend your friends birthday party and you will end up paying 25% more than stated. At MyMusicSchool.com on the opposite is the case: you only pay for what you get. Yes, it makes it in a way tougher for us, but better for you – and this is what we care about!
6) Easy access and exchange of materials
Besides having the guidance of a qualified teacher, learning to sing or play music is a lot about listening to music and broadening your knowledge of it. A lot of information and recordings are accessible on the internet. During the precious time of a live regular lesson it usually takes too long to look everything up and check it out right away. In online lesson however sharing links with students becomes much easier, be it a YouTube video or an article. Keeping track of your assignments is easier than ever – just browse your Login Area or chat history for all the exercises and links.
7) A base of tailor-made educational materials to support you
The way we interact has changed. Video conferences are a usual way of human-to-human interaction. Online music lessons have become a standard, but all the prerequisites necessary for effective learning have to be met. That’s why it is important to study according to a systematic system that an online music school can provide to you. We see the new way of music teaching as an opportunity to deliver high quality lessons.
At MyMusicSchool.com we have rethought the online situation and transformed it into an advantage. Our experienced professional teachers will instruct and guide you with the aid of template exercises, pieces and play-alongs.
With MusXperience we have developed and keep on expanding curriculum supported by original teaching materials. Our online teaching method is structured that students get the most out of their lessons. Our unique database includes exercises on techniques, complemented by play-along tracks and produced by our teachers to accompany your practicing. This way you are left with all the tools you need to make progress by making music. This is a part of the unique teaching concept at MyMusicSchool.com
Lessons are being adjusted to your personal goals and desires, for examples favorite songs, pieces or musical styles. Our team of teachers is selected carefully from trained musicians active in Berlin and internationally. Some of them contribute to the body of materials with exercises and articles for the instruments they specialize in. Students can try and choose the teacher from the musicians of our team they like most. Every member of the teacher team is an active artist with a lot to share. You can get lessons with focus on songwriting or music theory and other areas from any teacher we have.
And you can also easily get lessons with other teachers through our school, be it to learn a new instrument, go in-depth on music theory or get an additional perspective on your playing. And all while being a student at MyMusicSchool.com
So many reasons… just try it out!
If you want to brush up your skills and are in doubt about taking your lessons online: to give it a try. Or just get in touch with us! We will gladly answer your questions about anything, but mostly about our school and teaching method.
Why we are doing what we are doing: We want to make music education more personal, effective and fun for students! The advantage of flexibility, highly qualified teachers and materials combined is MyMusicSchool.com.