Question about taking lessons on this site

Hello,

Do you have to pay for lessons on this site? How do they work? Do you have due dates and such or is it more like you do the assignment and turn it in as soon as you can? any information would be great.

Michael

No (I wish)

They are conducted in the forum (check out some of the lessons threads to get an idea)

The rest depends on the teacher and the arrangement the student has worked out with them.

I've been on the site for awhile and won't mind trying to give lessons.

What is your level, goals, etc?

I've been on the site for awhile and won't mind trying to give lessons.

What is your level, goals, etc?

Not quite how it works.

Young Composers Music Forum - FAQ: Lessons System

why don't you go to a real composer first?:)

why don't you go to a real composer first?:)

I don't understand what you mean

He means we are imaginary.

haha.. i mean you could go to a music school and learn from a real composer, who have a degree in composing.. :) here, there aren't 'real composers', there are students and 'composers' who think that he/she is a composer because he/she wrote a piece which sounds good (or he/she thinks, that it sounds good :) ).

If you go to learn from a 'real composer', you would be able to learn more about music. And that is the main goal. If you don't know much about music, you can't compose GOOD music. That's why I learn from two composers in Hungary. Madar

Well, it's not like a degree in composition necessarily means that much. Sure, you can expect some basic degree of music theory knowledge (but you can expect the same from most teachers on this forum), but other than this, it says nothing about how "good" a composer you are. Sure, you may have an awesome teacher who -does- have a composition degree, but that doesn't mean everyone who does is a great teacher, or everyone who doesn't isn't. The point is simply that teaching arts is always a somewhat vague thing, where there isn't any definite "knowledge" or "technique" one must teach. (One sure can teach specific knowledge and techniques, but probably none of them are inherently important to composition.) And to define a composer as somebody who has a degree in composition just doesn't really cut it for me.

But sure, normal lessons with a teacher (with which I mean physically being in a room together for some time and discussing) are very valuable, and the lesson system here probably can't really replace them. But it's still a lot better than having nothing at all (which probably applies to most people just starting out with composition), AND it's free.

Oh, and it's completely false to assume that none of the teachers here have a degree.

There are some "real" composers on this site.

The lesson is free, but you have to apply (check the list of teachers, at the top of the lessons forum)

After you get accepted, there really is no sceduale or deadline. The teacher posts the lesson, then you finish it whenever you want. When you finish, the teacher makes and posts a new lesson (this does take time sometimes)