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The High Cost of Getting “Free” Guitar Lessons from Your Dad

(This is a continuation of last week’s blog on Learning guitar with a family member or friend.)

(Cute little Aiden, at 14 months still a little too young to learn guitar from dad, even though dad is a guitar teacher) 🙂

What is The Cost of Free Lessons From a Family Member or Friend

The “Free” aspect of learning guitar with a parent, sibling or friend, is no longer so appealing when you are aware of the price you end up paying to get those lessons free.

Slower progress
Which means: waste of your talent
Waste of your time (you could be progressing 5 times more quickly and use the extra free time to do other cool things in your life)
Waste of your musicianship
Bad Habits
Inefficient use of practice time, which a parent is not equipped to detect, guide, or fix
Incorrect teaching of material
No guidance in how to practice
Less Accountability: you will not push yourself as hard in your practice when your lessons are with a loved one than when you have those lessons with a real teacher.
Not as much of this cool, uplifting feeling of accomplishment you get when you can play things you could not yet play yesterday.
Less personal satisfaction and joy. (Learning guitar is all the more fun the better one progresses)
Less certainty you are actually learning and doing it right
More insecurity and thus less confident about your musicianship
Gaps in your knowledge
Seeing the critiques and guidance of a loved one as criticism
Taking things personal much more quickly
This often leads to tension, frustration, anger, and other negative emotions felt in the lesson experience with a family member. This takes away the fun from learning an instrument
Not looking forward to lessons because of miscommunications with the family member.
Too many distractions in a house, which are not there in a professional teaching studio
No teaching materials, handouts, or teaching software and backing tracks available which make the learning experience all the more fun and productive.
Lesses progress = taking longer before you discover cool, fun new things on guitar = lesser new adventures coming your way = a feeling of being stagnant and stuck = lesser feeling of achievement
… and so much more.

Conclusion:

A great deal of your musical ability, progress, time, and even musical joy gets wasted in the process.

Conclusion

Hit me up anytime at vreny@zotzinmusic.com if you have any questions, or if you would like to book a lesson.

These free lessons are cool, but you will never experience the progress, joy, and results that my students experience in lessons when you’re learning by yourself from blogs and videos.

That is why people take lessons: way better results and progress, much more complete information, exposed to way more creative ideas than you can get from a blog or YouTube video.
There is only so much that self-study can accomplish.

If you want to see amazing results and progress in your guitar playing, buy your first lesson here and get started ASAP.