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Hey, everyone.
I've decided I'm gonna start giving music lessons (free, obviously) on Skype for my own personal enjoyment. Through the time I've been studying music and music theory, I've gone through extreme highs and lows regarding learning the material and feeling like I'd plateaued. A lot of sites online especially are extraordinarily vague, mechanical and speak to their audience with the assumption that they already have a fundamental substrate, which confused the **** out of me when I first started learning, so I know it's gotta frustrate the hell out of other people. I wanna try to help people who're in the same position I was avoid that bitter frustration.
Music's an art, not a science, yet so many people/places teach it as if they're discoursing on how to operate a machine. There needs to be some manner of interactivity when learning, in the event someone gets hung up on something and needs real-time clarification. Seriously. Music is frustrating, and the maxim "suffer for your art" has no more poignant meaning than in music. My areas of competence are guitar, piano, chord theory/harmony, metal, classical and to lesser degrees, though still competent, blues and jazz. I'd be covering anything from basic chord theory, modes, scales, arranging, composing, techniques, intervals, notation, more advanced chord theory, polyphony and voice-leading/counterpoint.
I'm not going to seal the deal yet. I want to see if there's any interest in the idea first, before I make any commitments. As I said before, this would just be for my own personal enjoyment (and a little out of spite for incompetent music instructors who teach music like it's binary and don't acknowledge the dynamic modality of musical application
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Hey, everyone.
I've decided I'm gonna start giving music lessons (free, obviously) on Skype for my own personal enjoyment. Through the time I've been studying music and music theory, I've gone through extreme highs and lows regarding learning the material and feeling like I'd plateaued. A lot of sites online especially are extraordinarily vague, mechanical and speak to their audience with the assumption that they already have a fundamental substrate, which confused the **** out of me when I first started learning, so I know it's gotta frustrate the hell out of other people. I wanna try to help people who're in the same position I was avoid that bitter frustration.
Music's an art, not a science, yet so many people/places teach it as if they're discoursing on how to operate a machine. There needs to be some manner of interactivity when learning, in the event someone gets hung up on something and needs real-time clarification. Seriously. Music is frustrating, and the maxim "suffer for your art" has no more poignant meaning than in music. My areas of competence are guitar, piano, chord theory/harmony, metal, classical and to lesser degrees, though still competent, blues and jazz. I'd be covering anything from basic chord theory, modes, scales, arranging, composing, techniques, intervals, notation, more advanced chord theory, polyphony and voice-leading/counterpoint.
I'm not going to seal the deal yet. I want to see if there's any interest in the idea first, before I make any commitments. As I said before, this would just be for my own personal enjoyment (and a little out of spite for incompetent music instructors who teach music like it's binary and don't acknowledge the dynamic modality of musical application
