{"id":43570,"date":"2018-06-07T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musical-u.com\/?p=43570\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T10:28:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T10:28:45","slug":"about-choosing-an-online-music-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musical-u.com\/learn\/about-choosing-an-online-music-course\/","title":{"rendered":"About Choosing an Online Music Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The world of online music learning is ripe with opportunity for a musician interested in self-directed learning. In this episode, we explore the factors that should go into choosing an online course that is compatible with your musical goals and vision.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Listen to the episode:<\/p>\n<div class='mu_podcast_embed'><iframe style='border: none' src='\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6676032\/height\/90\/width\/640\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/59638c\/' height='90' width='640' scrolling='no'  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class='podcast_subscribe_buttons'><p class='subscribe_cta'>Subscribe For Future Episodes!<\/p>\n    <div class='buttons'><a href='http:\/\/musicalitynow.com\/subscribeitunes' target='_blank' class='label' onclick='logPodSubscribe(\"apple\");'><i class='fa fa-apple' aria-hidden='true'><\/i> Apple Podcasts<\/a><span class='separator'> | <\/span><a href='http:\/\/musicalitynow.com\/subscribeandroid' target='_blank' class='label' onclick='logPodSubscribe(\"android\");'><i class='fa fa-android' aria-hidden='true'><\/i> Android<\/a><span class='separator'> | <\/span><a href='http:\/\/musicalitynow.com\/subscribeyoutube' target='_blank' class='label' onclick='logPodSubscribe(\"youtube\");'><i class='fa fa-youtube' aria-hidden='true'><\/i> YouTube<\/a><span class='separator'> | <\/span><a href='http:\/\/musicalitynow.com\/subscribegplay' target='_blank' class='label' onclick='logPodSubscribe(\"gplay\");'><i class='fa fa-google' aria-hidden='true'><\/i> Google Play<\/a><span class='separator'> | <\/span><a href='http:\/\/musicalitynow.com\/subscribestitcher' target='_blank' class='label' onclick='logPodSubscribe(\"stitcher\");'><img src='https:\/\/www.musical-u.com\/wp-content\/themes\/Divi-MU\/img\/Stitcher-icon.png' alt='Stitcher' class='podcast_icon'>Stitcher<\/a><span class='separator'> | <\/span><a href='http:\/\/musicalitynow.com\/subscriberss' target='_blank' class='label' onclick='logPodSubscribe(\"rss\");'><i class='fa fa-rss' aria-hidden='true'><\/i> RSS<\/a><\/div>\n    <p class='review_cta'>Enjoying the show? 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Please support the show by rating and reviewing it!<\/p>\n    <p class='review_button'><a class='cta_button' href='https:\/\/www.musical-u.com\/podcast-review\/' target='_blank' onclick='logPodReview();'>Rate and Review!<\/a><\/p>\n    <\/div><!-- MU Podcast Schema -->\n<div class='mu_podcast_schema' itemscope itemtype='https:\/\/schema.org\/PodcastEpisode'>\n <div style='display:none;'>\n  <a itemprop='url' href='https:\/\/www.musical-u.com\/learn\/about-choosing-an-online-music-course\/'>\n       <span itemprop='name'>About Choosing an Online Music Course<\/span>\n  <\/a>\n  <div itemprop='datePublished' datetime= '2018-06-07T16:00:14+00:00'>2018-06-07T16:00:14+00:00<\/div>\n  <div itemprop='description'>Learn how to choose an online music course that will complement your musical goals and provide you with the support you need.<\/div>\n    <div itemprop='associatedMedia' itemscope itemtype='https:\/\/schema.org\/MediaObject'>\n      <div itemprop='image' href= 'https:\/\/www.musical-u.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/TMP079-About-Choosing-an-Online-Music-Course.jpg'>https:\/\/www.musical-u.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/TMP079-About-Choosing-an-Online-Music-Course.jpg<\/div>\n   <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<h2>Transcript<\/h2><div class='mu_podcast_transcript'>\n        <div id='mu_podcast_transcript-link-43570' aria-expanded='false' class='sh_link sh_hide'><a class='cta_button mu_podcast_transcript_showhide_link' href='#' onclick=\"showhide_toggle('mu_podcast_transcript',43570,'Show Transcript','Hide Transcript');return false;\"><span id='mu_podcast_transcript-toggle-43570'>Show Transcript<\/span><\/a><\/div><div id='mu_podcast_transcript-content-43570' class='sh-content sh-hide' style='display:none;'>\n        <div itemprop='audio' itemscope itemtype='https:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject'>\n          <div itemprop='transcript'>\n           \n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In our previous episode with David Asher Brown we talked a bit about the advantages and drawbacks of learning an instrument online. And this has been a frequent theme here on the podcast because so many of our guests are doing really terrific work in online music education &#8211; off the top of my head I can remember discussing it in our episodes with Jeremy Burns and Matthew Scott Phillips from Music Student 101, with Chris Owenby from Practice Habits, with Professor Anders Ericsson, author of Peak, Dave Isaacs, the \u201cGuitar Guru of Nashville\u201d, and certainly several more.<\/p>\n<p>As was probably clear from my conversations with them all, and the very fact that I myself run Musical U, an online musicality training provider, I really believe in the enormous potential and value in online training for music.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble is that online music education &#8211; and online education in general &#8211; is still at a very early stage. It\u2019s only really in the last five or ten years that someone wanting to learn an instrument or develop their musical ear or study up on music theory has had the option not just to learn in person, or self-study with books &#8211; but to go online for live 1-to-1 video lessons, or use extensive multimedia and interactive training material.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a massive opportunity &#8211; but if you\u2019ve ever explored this yourself you\u2019ll know that it\u2019s all too easy to spend a lot of time and even a lot of money &#8211; and have very little to show for it after.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever bought a course online &#8211; and then not finished it? Maybe you only ever looked at the first few lessons, or maybe you watched it all but never actually put it into practice. I know I\u2019ve certainly done that more than a few times. Or maybe you\u2019ve tried to stick to free stuff and spent hours researching and finding and gathering all these great webpages and resources &#8211; but then your enthusiasm fizzles out because it all seems too overwhelming and jumbled. I\u2019m guilty of that one too.<\/p>\n<p>You know there\u2019s an opportunity there. But how do you turn the incredible availability of great learning resources into a learning process that actually happens and actually delivers you the results you\u2019ve been craving?<\/p>\n<p>In this episode I\u2019m going to make some suggestions, based on our experience at Musical U. You won\u2019t be surprised to hear these are all things we\u2019ve baked into our training system at Musical U &#8211; and if you\u2019re looking for musicality training like playing by ear, improvising, singing in tune, tightening up your rhythm, and so on &#8211; then please do consider Musical U. But what I\u2019m going to be talking about applies to any kind of online music learning, including for learning to play an instrument. And actually it pretty much all goes for any online course, not just music.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re going to talk a bit about how to choose a suitable course to maximise your odds of success. Then in a future episode we\u2019ll discuss how to make the most of the course &#8211; and actually get results.<\/p>\n<h2>Choosing a course<\/h2>\n<p>So with the incredible range of options available to you online, how do you pick the right course? Specifically, how do you pick one which is most likely to actually get you results &#8211; rather than just seeming flashy and exciting but not actually delivering a good learning experience.<\/p>\n<p>Here are three important criteria I think you should keep in mind.<\/p>\n<h3>Aligned with your musical goal<\/h3>\n<p>First things first: Make sure that the course is really well aligned with your true musical goal. That might sound obvious, but we\u2019ve all had that experience where we start looking for something online, and a few hours later we\u2019ve explored and unpacked the topic in so many directions, and heard so many opinions about the right way to learn it or what you want to learn first, and so on &#8211; that it can be easy to end up thinking you \u201cshould\u201d go off and learn X even though it was really Y that had you excited to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say you can\u2019t learn valuable things about how best to pursue your goal by doing research. A lot of the guidance we provide to members at Musical U is helping them unpack what we call your \u201cBig Picture Vision\u201d and then figure out what concrete training is going to get them there. But what I want to suggest is that you make sure you don\u2019t get side-tracked. Don\u2019t end up with a laundry list of skills and topics and essential prerequisites that actually end up sapping your enthusiasm and making the whole thing feel untenable. And don\u2019t get tempted by a course that looks shiny and useful &#8211; but isn\u2019t actually what you set out to look for.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know more about goal setting and planning I\u2019m going to link in the shownotes to an interview I did on Brent Vaartstra\u2019s Learn Jazz Standards podcast where we talk all about that, and I think it would be a helpful framework for you to have in mind before setting out to find a course.<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s the first criterion: make sure the course is aligned with your real musical goal.<\/p>\n<h3>Flexible<\/h3>\n<p>The second criterion is to find a course that\u2019s flexible. I could spend a whole episode or three ranting about the problems with the \u201ccourse\u201d model for online learning, and I hesitated to even use the word \u201ccourse\u201d in this episode. Because in learning music, and doubly-so in musicality training, having a single one-size-fits-all straight line \u201ccourse\u201d where you have to go lesson by lesson in a certain strict order, almost never works. And I think this is a huge part of why course completion rates are so low. People are coming in with wildly varying backgrounds and goals and abilities, and trying to force everyone to follow the same strict path is just a recipe for frustration.<\/p>\n<p>So you want to find a course that\u2019s flexible. Ideally one which is modular, meaning that learning a skill involves a combination of different modules and you have some control to choose the ones which ones best match to your needs and desires, and assemble them in a way that makes most sense for you.<\/p>\n<p>And whether it\u2019s modular or not, you want it to be flexible in the sense of not restricting your progress. If you\u2019re too advanced for certain sections you shouldn\u2019t have to plod through them getting bored, and if you\u2019re struggling in a certain area you shouldn\u2019t be forced to master it before being able to move on in some way. You\u2019ll probably want a course that\u2019s self-paced, meaning you don\u2019t have to complete a certain lesson by a certain date &#8211; or, if you\u2019re someone who really thrives on deadlines, you might actually prefer a week-by-week course that helps you keep moving forwards.<\/p>\n<p>To give a few examples from Musical U, we have almost no prerequisites on our modules, so while we recommend certain sequences that make sense, if you want or need to leave out a module, or you haven\u2019t quite mastered it, you can still move on with your overall training. All our quizzes have a passmark not of 100% but of 80%, showing that you\u2019ve got the hang of the skill even if you haven\u2019t pushed your learning to the point of perfection (which for most people also equals the point of total boredom in your training!) And of course the whole system is modular, so while our Roadmaps mimic the straight-line course to give you a nice clear route, how you choose to follow that path is entirely flexible and personalisable.<\/p>\n<p>So you want to look for a course where you can be confident that if things don\u2019t magically go 100% perfectly and easily throughout you won\u2019t feel stuck, limited, bored or frustrated. You\u2019ll have some flexibility to continue your learning and maintain your enthusiasm and success.<\/p>\n<h3>Great support<\/h3>\n<p>The third criterion I\u2019d suggest is that you want a course which provides great support. Again, this might seem like a no-brainer &#8211; not least because almost all courses will make a point of offering some form of support. But you might be surprised.<\/p>\n<p>For a start, there are still a ton which provide only technical support. For example most mobile apps are like this. If something\u2019s broken then they might respond and help you, but if you\u2019re stuck with your training, there\u2019s really no way to get help.<\/p>\n<p>Or many online courses will offer a way to contact the course creator if you have questions. But frankly, that\u2019s just not good enough. Because in my experience, most adult learners are really hesitant to make use of that.<\/p>\n<p>For myself, I\u2019m not a particularly shy person, I\u2019m happy posting online and so on. But if I get stuck in an online course, am I going to write an email to the course creator asking for help? Probably not. I like to think of myself as independent, I think in honesty I\u2019d be a bit embarrassed to admit I hadn\u2019t managed to learn the thing myself, I would assume that the course probably works well for everyone else so it\u2019s my fault not the course\u2019s, and so on. I\u2019ve found that most of us are like that &#8211; we\u2019ve been preconditioned by the educational system to think that if we\u2019re not learning, it\u2019s our fault and we need to try harder. Which means we\u2019re not going to really make use of an on-demand support option like that.<\/p>\n<p>So what does great support look like? It\u2019s more proactive than that. It\u2019s about providing a way for you to receive help without needing to summon up the courage and have the self-awareness and confidence to actually ask for help. And I should mention there that often the problem is we don\u2019t even know how to ask for help! We know we\u2019re stuck but sometimes the very problem is we\u2019re not sure what\u2019s gone wrong. So that can make it really hard to send a message asking for help too.<\/p>\n<p>The kind of proactive support I\u2019m talking about means that you\u2019re part of a community in some way. You\u2019re visible to the course instructor without needing to consciously step forwards with a question. At Musical U we do this very much through having an online community with discussion boards and a way to post updates about your training, and it means our team can essentially keep an eye on our members. Not in a creepy way and not in an annoying way. Just for example so that if someone is clearly making great progress and then goes quiet for a week, or is posting updates but sounding increasingly frustrated, we can step in and help them solve the problem &#8211; often before they\u2019d even realised there was really a problem there.<\/p>\n<p>I know that people considering Musical U are often confused why we make a fuss about the community stuff when it\u2019s the training they\u2019re really interested in. But the truth is that the community is the secret sauce that helps us offer fantastic support and help our members get results in their training. It\u2019s not a distraction from training, it\u2019s an accelerator for it.<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s one way to provide great support, and I\u2019d encourage you to really ask yourself when considering an online course: What will I do when I get stuck? Because if the answer is \u201cI\u2019ll probably just stay quiet and give up\u201d, or \u201cI\u2019ll send a message and hope to get a reply\u201d, then I would say the support on offer is not really enough to help you succeed with that course.<\/p>\n<h3>Other factors<\/h3>\n<p>So those are the big three I wanted to suggest: Choose a course that\u2019s well-aligned with your real musical goals, is flexible in the way you move forwards in your learning, and which provides great support, not just an email address or a way to send a message.<\/p>\n<p>Now there are of course a ton of other things to consider, but I think you\u2019re probably already aware of these. Things like price, convenience, the format of the material, the trustworthiness and expertise of the provider, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not an easy choice to make &#8211; and so if you can find a provider that ticks all the boxes and provides a range of training not just a single course, that\u2019s a really big advantage too.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that helps you to choose your online music courses in a way that leads to greater success in the future. 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