Hello!
I've been doing my weekly catch up on the GMC, (busy, busy!) and have noticed a trend in the types of questions that are being asked (and the lessons that are being referred to). This has occurred to me, mainly because of a similar situation that's been personally arising to me, outside of music.
It seems that a lot of students have issues with:
A) Knowing what to study (i.e "In what order should I tackle such and such")
B ) Staying power. ("When do I know I've got this? Should I move on to a new thing?").
I see that Pavel has noticed that people try a lesson, and then quickly move on. I'm not sure whether the reason is that they've mastered it though! From experience, I might suggest that some people perhaps pick and mix a lot of stuff, but not really focus long enough to really nail a technique, to full performance standard.
Recently, I've been involved in making a syllabus of study for another non musical project, but perhaps all the material on the GMC could be indexed in the same way. And then you'd have to work through the module, for the best benefit. For instance:
Module 1 (Beginner) (Study time 15 hours)
Alt Picking lesson 1 (to 60 bpm)
Am Pentatonic (Boxes 1 and 2) (+ 3 if necessary)
Theory - CAGED part 1
Solo 1
Improv - Applied Alt picking to small pentatonic patterns using boxes 1 and 2.
Then you should complete this module before moving onto Module 2 which would be slightly more advanced. (Perhaps a small test somewhere to either prove that you've acquired the skills to move on?).
Obviously, the example above isn't brilliant (it's just off the top of my head). But perhaps if the information was grouped in this way somewhere, it would mean that a student who took the "course" would force themselves to work through the material, rather than flit from one thing to the next without giving it their full attention.
I don't mean to pile more work ontop of Kris (he's busy enough as it is!!). To be fair, this approach is incredibly complex to compile, and takes a long time to develop in the correct way. I'm just interested in whether people think that this would be of benefit to them, (does it suit your learning style?) I know I usually work much better when I have a list of stuff to do, and once I've completed it, I can then strike it from the list and move onto the next bit. Perhaps in the future the GMC would become one of the world standards for guitar courses!!??