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A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up

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456 points adityaathalye | 1 comments | 29 Mar 25 03:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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6Az4Mj4D ◴[01 Apr 25 02:46 UTC] No.43542309[source]▶
What is the best way to learn Guitar as a total noob? Can this app help
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dboreham ◴[01 Apr 25 04:19 UTC] No.43542807[source]▶
YouTube.
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j4coh ◴[01 Apr 25 05:59 UTC] No.43543316[source]▶
I’m not sure why, but so many guitarists I’ve met who learned from YouTube are bad. I’m not sure why, maybe they are replacing watching with practice? No custom feedback from real musicians who hear you play? YouTubers are motivated to overcomplicate things so you keep watching more videos? I’m not sure.

It may also be the context, I play original, improvisational music with people/in front of an audience and YouTube may be particularly bad at preparing people for this.

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andelink ◴[01 Apr 25 06:48 UTC] No.43543593[source]▶
Is anything really, _truly_ learnable from YouTube? It's the ultimate "feel productive" placebo out there.

I'm ready to be downvoted.

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1. belter ◴[01 Apr 25 08:57 UTC] No.43544407[source]▶
That is also the secret of most self-paced online platforms like Udemy, Pluralsight and many others.The metrics they don't like to share. Most users never watch videos until the end, they buy courses but never start them or complete less than 4% to 10% of the course.

You can see sometimes course authors acknowledging these metrics. Companies training departments just wash their hands and say, we have these thousands of courses made available for our employees... :-)