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Learning music is a common dream for many people. That’s why now more than ever there is a great offer of tools, apps and videos that can help us in our quest of learning music. 

However, when it comes to picking up an instruments and laying hands on it, whether it is pressing down a key or in the case of the violin bowing a string, you may soon realise that your relationship with the instrument comes with specific challenges to you, challenges that apps and videos may not be able to address properly or at all. 

This is why learning with an instructor is so important. The benefits are several, but primarily we can focus on two: discipline in your practice and music lessons tailored to your needs. 

Lessons are usually one hour per week, but learning violin will require a brief, but consistent practice from your part. Then, students and teachers can review what was practiced during the time between their lessons and address concerns and questions that might have arisen. 

Students under the tutelage of teachers, who they meet on a weekly basis, may have a better chance of having a consistent routine, due only to the fact that they are engaged in a weekly violin session with an instructor. 

Because of it, progress and improvement may come at a consistent rate and your experience learning music may be a very pleasant one as you can witness your abilities and skills expanding steadily.

How to practice and what to expect from your teacher

In order to become better at violin, you have to be very disciplined. You can practice for 15 minutes, but it has to be consistent. It is always better to practice for a short period of time every day than to practice for an hour before the class. Your violin teacher will want you to spend time with your violin consistently throughout the week, that is the basis of your relationship with music and your instrument, and thus discipline plays a major role. 

You also have to have a clear goal. Some people have a very clear idea of what they want to learn, others not so much, but it doesn’t matter because once you begin your training and you start playing a few notes, or learning the different bowing techniques, you will start realising what specific goals you might now crave. 

Then your instructor and you can come up with a course plan, a direction for the series of lessons to follow. Or you could tell your teacher everything you would like to learn, tell him how you see yourself playing the music you’d like to learn and the main objectives you have in mind. Then your violin teacher can arrange the lessons to focus on your interests and your ultimate goals. 

This takes us to another important point: besides your sense of discipline and clear goals, learning  music involves also a good teacher that will tailor the classes to your needs and will keep you motivated as he tries to provide you with the basic, fundamental skills to learn music and violin, that is learning to read music notation, learning to play an instrument; learning about rhythm and your sensibility to it, and expanding your imagination.

Online lessons and its benefits 

In the last few years, we have seen an increase in music lessons being held online. But what are the challenges and benefits of learning music via webcam? 

Online platforms and applications made particularly for meetings online have improved considerably. Meeting with a teacher online has become quite simple; all you need is an internet connection, a computer with a camera and microphone. 

During their online lessons, teachers now have the option of sharing their screen in order to provide students with as much visual aid as they can. Latency is quite minimal nowadays, so teachers and students can play together in sync. 

All material is shared digitally in the form of PDFs, but now teachers have the option of recording themselves on videos or in audio recording in order to help the student using every tool available. 

Some applications may also allow the student to record the lessons and store them in their computer, allowing them to review the class at their own time whenever they would like. 

And perhaps the major benefit of them all is that you get to have a music lesson at home at a reasonable price. Furthermore, because both teacher and student are just one click away, any commuting problems that might have caused cancellations or no-shows in the past are now not an issue anymore.