So, I have an electric guitar and an amp. I was thinking of learning through the intenet. Then people told me that taking guitar lessons through a private teacher is far more benefitial. I checked out the websites of some guitar schols near my house. They said that there will be 1 one hour class every week. How much can they teach you in 1 hour? seriously? I read a review on the website of a guy who said that he was playing "killer" guitar in just 6 months.How’s that possible with just 24 classes, i.e, 24 hours? Plz help me out….are they really worth it or should i learn through the internet???

The lesson is one hour. During the lesson you’ll be given new information, new music and new playing techniques to learn and study. Then you will be expected to practice on your own every day to master the material your teacher gave you in the lesson, so that by the time you come back for your next lesson, you’ll have learned it and be ready to move on to more new material. Each week’s lesson builds on what you learned in previous weeks.

The more practicing you do between lessons, the quicker you’ll learn and the faster you’ll progress. If you don’t practice at all between lessons, the teacher will continue to introduce new material every week that builds on what you learned in previous lessons, but you’ll fall further and further behind because you won’t have mastered the previous weeks’ material.

Its like school. You HAVE to do your homework in between classes if you want to do well.

And I would strongly doubt that anybody learned to become a "killer" guitarist in just 6 months of playing — even if he practiced for 12 hours a day

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