Of course I have my own opinions on the value of these sort of games from a real education standpoint – but I’d love to hear from you about it.

I’d really love to hear from people who have learned from these games – people who started from scratch, not being able to play at all, and then graduated from the game into playing real instruments.

Personally I think they are awesome fun – I played the acade version of the drum game years ago – well before it was released like it is today.

If you havn’t seen it before click on the link below to check it out at Musicians Friend – Its available for Ps3 and XBox360 – and has the works – the guitar controller, the drum kit and microphones.

Firstly you can Learn at your Own Pace – you dont need to rely on the teacher giving you the next steps in your learning

Secondly you can Learn your own style of music – you aren’t influenced by the teachers particular musical tastes and experience.

Learning online does have distinct advantages, however it should be used as part of your learning mix and not your only method.

At the Fun Music Company we are experienced musicians and teachers, and we’d never recommend that you learn only online – because it really doesn’t give you the most ideal learning environment.

Here is the learning mix which all people should experience to learn an instrument:

- Learning from Video and Instructional lessons, both offline and online

- Learning from a teacher, preferrably face to face

- Learning from doing – playing in a band, learning in a group.

If you learn using all three of these methods you’ll have the greatest chance of learning your instrument the fastest and learning the most in the smallest amount of time

The Fun Music Company own and have interests in several products – so if that offends you that we might occassionally promote them on this blog…. thats a pity!

We will give fair and honest opinions on every single course, every single method book and every single website (free or paid) that we find online, whether we have any business association with them or not.

If you have a music related course and you’d like a review on this website, feel free to contact us and we’ll get underway with a review as quickly as possible.

Our philosophy is that we give everyone a posting.. and we encourange and welcome comments from people who have actually purchased the courses, so that you”ll get a true and honest answer on absolutely everything available online.