Hi,
while creating this thread, I felt like providing some context. Especially, since I got a feeling this topic is somewhat controversial on this forum. Feel free to skip to the last paragraph if not interested in my maunderings.
The context:
While I agree that nothing beats practice, in recent years I’ve also come to the conclusion that if you have just a little bit of an extra money, and can afford hiring someone more experienced in whatever you want to learn - it’s the best money spent. It’s the way I’ve progressed in my career, in my fitness, my cooking skills, etc.
Basically, at the moment my “philosophy of spending money on yourself” is this:
learning from an expert > learning by yourself > experiences (travel, etc) > things (gear, clothing, etc).
You might have seen my other topic (Help me structure my (newbie) learning process for music creation, please) the other day. It’s been 1.5 months since, and I’ve made what I believe to be a good progress all by myself, from essentially zero (although, not with the Syntakt, but with Model:Cycles).
But now is the time when I feel stuck again, on a different level. I do have a lot of questions, and the majority of YT tutorials fail to answer those - being created for a wider audience and not tailored to my level - obviously so. And even when I find videos that seem to correspond to my current level, the fact that I cannot ask questions feels very limiting. Of course I can ask some questions in the comment section, and some youtubers do answer sometimes. And I can also ask or find similar questions on this forum. But the length of these feedback loops just kills the momentum too often.
Of course, it’s normal to get blocked, and frustrated at times. It’s part of learning. I just think a lot of such blockers are not that productive, and I would be willing to pay to speedrun through them.
What I would like to have is somebody I can jump on a video call with, and ask my questions, show my struggles, watch them doing things I want to do, repeat after them, keep asking questions, etc - I need 1:1 lessons. This doesn’t have to be on a regular basis. But an opportunity to accumulate some blockers - technical and creative - and have an experienced person help me overcome them would be invaluable.
Do you have any recommendations?
Thank you
