Pros and Cons of Learning Piano Online

Whether it is about learning to play an instrument or some game or anything else; the world of internet has a full range of informative resources available for people to explore and enhance their knowledge. Everything is now at fingertips may it be a job or finding a tutor or anything else. Similarly internet has made learning piano easier with a lot of websites offering you promising lessons and related resources that could enable you to learn piano without having someone physically to teach you the right ways. Deeper and bigger information is now available that we can view on our screens according to our own flexibility and schedule. Thus online resources have completely changed the traditional way of learning piano with well-designed and structured lessons and tutorials.

Pros and Cons:

Everything is accessible within comfort of your home but there are still some pros and cons in the process that one must evaluate in order to maximize learning. Many people are often witnessed wondering if learning piano online could be good or bad practice. So here we are evaluating pros and cons of this practice so that you can better understand whether learning this instrument in a classic way proves more suitable for you or you would opt for online learning methodology.

Pros:

• Millions of resources in the form of lessons, tutorials, e-books, discussion forums and articles are available over internet that offer required information characterized according to your learning level.
• Apart from paid memberships, lessons and offline CDs that you may buy, everything on the internet is completely free saving your cost to a great extent in comparison to lessons from a teacher. So these methods are cost-effective.
• Websites share information in the form of knowledge, facts and ideas taken by expert piano professionals.
• Online resources are frequently updated when compared to physical books and manuals. Moreover latest trends and methodologies are implemented with these updated online lessons.
• You get a huge variety with details, songs, techniques and genres to choose from.
• Any step that you fail to follow or remember, you can revert back to it.
• You can find libraries with patterns, rhythms, lessons and tricks that are readily available and accessible.
• You can learn at your own convenience i.e. whenever and wherever you get time and are willing to learn and practice. You don’t need to leave your home and have access all the time making piano learning and practice more flexible. Geographical flexibility is that makes it a suitable choice for money and you don’t have to travel for your piano lessons.
  
• You can choose a level basic, intermediate or advance according to your own will and expertise.
• These piano lessons are designed to teach you from basic so you don’t need to have a background in music or know the basics of piano instrument and music.
• You can decide and dictate your own pace and level for learning piano. You can even limit your learning especially those who are just learning for fun.
• You get a variety of approaches to reinforce learning such as with videos, graphics, descriptions, apps etc.
• You can stop for a break or for doing something else during an online piano lesson.
• With high quality cameras, you can make your online lessons interactive with a teacher similar to a traditional in-house lesson.

Cons:

• Real after all is real and nothing could replace the complete satisfaction that you can get by learning with a traditional real piano teacher. Online lifeless form of learning may not give satisfaction.
• You may not be able to get prompt answers to your questions and there will be no one to correct your mistakes if you are doing something wrong with piano. This one to one interaction is missing.
• Professional piano teachers are qualified and trained teachers with skills that make them capable of helping others with learning to play piano.
  
• When you are learning something on internet, you can easily get distracted in comparison to home based piano lessons. These distractions on the internet are often unavoidable such as emails, social media etc.
• Some free lessons offer only basic information and you may need to pay for getting access to the real things. Although there are some fantastic resources offering step by step piano learning. Progressing further with knowledge of basic skills is better to be done with a trained teacher for a one-to-one learning or you can sign-up for a piano music class.
• With online piano lessons, you would not be sure if the advice or technique given is a good practice or not. You should be sure about accessing authentic and reliable resources only.
• Even when you have a real physical teacher on the other side who is there to teach you online, you would need to compromise on quality of sound and things may not be as clear as they can be with physical presence of a teacher.
• You don’t get commitment of a trained and qualified teacher with you.

Conclusion:

When you compare pros and cons of learning online versus learning with a proper piano teacher visiting your home or you travelling to him or a music class; you will find that there are not many cons. Perhaps, you yourself can better decide for yourself whether you are more comfortable with online lessons or traditional method of learning. Whatever makes you more comfortable and enables you to remain more focused is the best solution for you. However by having a quick look at the pros and cons of online learning method that we have shared here, you will be able to widen your spectrum of learning.