Friday, February 15, 2008

Online Music Teaching

I'll be trying something wholly new for me this spring. I've signed up for a 12 week online class from the Berklee College of Music. It's a Blues Guitar Workshop, and I'm psyched to dive in and spend 12 weeks increasing my blues knowledge base.

Folks tell me I'm not a bad blues guitarist, but I feel like my musical knowledge is built on a pretty shaky foundation, and hopefully this class will help shore up that foundation (and give me some new licks and tunes to boot!).

I'm very curious to see how online teaching works for something like guitar. We'll get videos of instructor demonstrations and we will submit our work as MP3 files. I think it could be quite effective. The semester starts in early April--I'll be sure to report on how it goes.