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himanshu.g -> RE: Lessons by skype or similar (Mar. 17 2020 6:27:32)
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Skype Lessons Advantage --
- You can get lessons from best teachers in the world and not be limited to [no real flamenco] teachers in your area. It is very important because, for every technique, there is a lot of debate e.g. which joints flex, how much, wrist or no wrist ...etc. So it is essential for you to be able to trust your teacher's advice, which automatically happens if teacher is a great flamenco player himself, has met many other great players, has experience with teaching etc.
- Often, You get full recording of the lesson (I got those from Ricardo when I took lessons) which are really really useful. When I watch the recording, I realize some important details that I didn't pay attention to during live lesson.
- No time wasted in commute, you switch on and switch off.
Skype Lessons Disadvantages --
- Minor Technical issues: Skype and Internet are not perfect, sometimes stream hangs, audio-video go out of sync etc.
- Optical Illusion: Your teacher's guitar body, his hands/fingers might be bigger/smaller compare to what you perceive on screen. So you can't just try to imitate his position.
- Teacher can't just get up and correct your posture, your fingers etc. He can only say and show things.
- You can't give your Guitar to teacher to play and have his opinion if there is something wrong with guitar e.g. high action or whatever else.
- Infrequent lessons don't help build a relationship with teacher. OTOH if you live in same area, you probably could goto see his live performances, meet socially, have beer, hang out with other students and build people connections.
- Teacher in your area can [probably] help you get introduced to local flamenco scene, can get you to help in dance classes, you meet more professionals and like minded people, get inspired, more beer.
Overall skype lessons are great to get doubts clarified by expert, specific help on [specially right hand] techniques etc... could be supplemented with pre-recorded online or dvd courses as skype lessons could get expensive (YMMV!).
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