[luord]

> Lastly, I can't imagine that tech won't win here with non-human based teaching. It's affordable, convenient, and scalable to any genre, language, right from home on many platforms.

That's just sad, even if probably true I'd still hope teachers remain. I'd rather have a human mentor when it comes to art.

[rchaud]

They're assuming that because justin.tv exists and is popular, and that e-learning is now common in a number of fields, that this will apply to music as well.

Not so in my experience. I quickly learned that I can't follow along with my virtual guitar tutor if I broke the strings while attempting to tune it and have no idea how to re-string it.