Online Guitar Lessons

Online Guitar Lessons
With Guitar Teacher Rob Michael

Whether you’re an intermediate guitarist trying to decipher charts from your school’s music program or a professional player looking to expand your musical vocabulary, you’re ready for some one-on-one private guitar instruction, right? Problem… the commute’s a little far. Not anymore! No matter where on the planet (or beyond) you are, we can do lessons! You just need a webcam, computer and high-speed internet.

Email me at atmos.trio@gmail.com or call me at 707-653-5299 to schedule your guitar lesson.

How Online Lessons Works…

You’ll need a computer with a webcam and high speed internet. (If you’re a wireless user at home you’ll want to connect directly with an Ethernet cable for maximum speed.)

For Mac or PC users I’ve used http://tinychat.com/. No software download needed. I’ll provide you a custom url that you can go to at the time of our lesson and we have a private 2-way video stream. Easy!

chatingmailI also use Google video chat with great success. You just need to sign up for a Gmail account (free) and download the Google video chat software (free). Go to mail.google.com/videochat to get the Google video chat software. Then send me your user name / Gmail address and we’ll add each other to our “chat list”. My Gmail address is atmos.trio@gmail.com. It takes just a couple of minutes and we’re all set.

You’ll also need some kind of a CD player or better yet iTunes for the play-alongs we’ll be working with.

Position your guitar practice amp about 5 to 6 feet from the computer. This keeps us from overdriving the computer mics.You might also want a pair of headphones or powered speakers to monitor the sound. Then we schedule a lesson time etc. and we’re good to go.

The video conferencing technology is really wonderful. The only thing we can’t do is play together at the same time. There’s a latency problem when it comes to playing at the same time. That’s about the only drawback. The way it works is, I have you play…then I listen and watch…..Then I play and YOU listen and watch….it works GREAT!! I have a ton of play along things for us to work with. My methods are organized, concise and efficient. I charge $75 (US) for an hour lesson. Payment is through PayPal. (My PayPal address is rob_michael_2002@yahoo.com.)

It’s that simple! So, drop me a note at atmos.trio@gmail.com or call me at my home number 707-653-5299 and we’ll get your guitar lessons scheduled.