Chrisp’s e-learning expriences

I put another hour in today. I think i may have discovered somthing here. There are plenty of exercise and plenty of areas to explore. Today i was looking at standard riffs for both Blues and Jazz and on the learning site there is a ‘heap’ of them. The difficultity now is where do you start and where do you head. I suppose this is one of the problems with this for of training/education.

It is all up on a website, it is all available however as there is no guide or teacher (for want of a better description). So to create a structured learning exprience it is really up to the student. Sometimes it is tempting to move to another area before mastering the first.

Anyway i will continue …..at this point i see much potential.

Today i participated in a further session of my chosen online course. This time i looked at some standard progressions. These progression were display on the screen in what is know as tab form. With in this form the fingering positions on the fretboard are inducted by numbers and by pushing the play button the tune is played at whatever speed that siuts your style. For the learning of the progression the speed can be played very slow and sped up as confidence builds.  This has been useful. The exercise of control of the the speed and other characteristics that can be exercised with the online method as well as the fact that in can be accessed at any stage is a deffinate advantage of e-learning.