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Old 03-17-2012, 07:36 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Sometimes it can be difficult and costly to learn lessons from music teachers. Using social networking sites will make it more accessible and cheaper to people to learn music. There will be far more people benefiting. Every industry is relying on social networking these days.
How do you figure it would become cheaper? Do you work for free? Why would a proper music teacher work for free?

The reason it can be difficult and costly to get lessons is because being a professional music teacher is a specialized skill. If you're offering a service where the public needs to pay for access to a site that will feature professional instruction then you need to pay for professional instructors.

The site also needs to offer something more than what's already available, so no canned streaming lessons (free on youtube / music sites), no volunteer teachers (free on any music forum including this one). Otherwise what do you really have?

So what does that leave? Either class based instruction or individual one on one instruction. Neither of those is a cheap option, nor does the original concept provide much in terms of market viability. Especially not when originally pitched like some half baked video game idea.
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