Would you consider online dance lessons, or maybe online soccer lessons? How about online martial arts lessons?
Of course not, the physical component and requirement for an in-person coach, trainer, or teacher would make these programs extremely difficult to learn, if not impossible, and music lessons are no different!
In-person instruction for all activities that have a strong physical component always have been, and always will be the standard method for educating students for several reasons.
Through the pandemic most music schools and private teachers promoted On-Line Lessons as the next best method to learn by but this would prove to be incorrect. The drop out or cancelation rate for online programs skyrocketed to over 90%, why did this happen?
As long as there have been coaches, teachers, and educators teaching activities and programs there has been a human connection that is built on a relationship between the student and the teacher.
Most children’s activities have a physical component that cannot be taught through a computer monitor, and music is at the top of that list.
Many activities can be broken down into three basic sections:
In the case of music lessons replacing the teacher with a computer monitor proved to have a large impact on both the relationship between the teacher and the student and the ability to properly or effectively teach the physical components.
It is for this reason that the drop-out rate surpassed 90%!
Here are a few more reasons why in-person music lessons are superior:
Studies have shown that over 99.4% of teachers today studied through In-person lessons. If the pandemic happened in 1990 as opposed to 2020 using the information available to us it could be said that the majority of music teachers today, simply would not exist.
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