Kids and Guitars Go Together Like Peanut Butter & Jelly

Ever since the British invasion of the ’60s with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and even Herman’s Hermits, kids have wanted to learn how to play the guitar. Oh, sure, kids were interested in guitar lessons before then but it really exploded in the ’60s and beyond.

Flash forward about 40 years and we’re looking at a whole new crop of kids interested in guitar lessons because of shows like American Idol and America’s Got Talent. It seems that every contestant on Idol these days plays a guitar and quite well.

So how did that evolve? How did today’s twenty-somethings turn into great guitarists? Lessons.

However the interest begins whether it’s watching TV, listening to a brother’s garage band, or playing Guitar Hero, the guitar has come back into high fashion. But what do you do when you live in a rural community with no music stores or music teachers?

That’s where online takes the lead and guitar lessons can be had. Kid’s guitar lessons have become available and accessible via the Internet and video learning.

Lots of online guitar lessons let you pick the teachers you’d like your kids to learn from as well as the styles. You can choose styles from rock to classical to country all with a click of a mouse.

And these aren’t slow paced lessons, either. Your kid may not be ready to tour with Van Halen but he’ll have a good basis for playing guitar. Pair this type of learning with a school music program and your child will be ahead of the pack when it comes to playing in the band.

If it turns out that your local school doesn’t teach guitar… many middle schools do basic guitar as part of the music curriculum… then you can continue with online guitar lessons. It’s been proven scientifically that music enhances a child’s learning in core subjects like math and science.

In taking online guitar lessons, your child will not only learn an instrument but get a boost in math (time signatures, beats, and how to count notes), science (why one string sounds different from the other and how to change tone), and foreign language (some lyrics are in another language).