<p>Hi guys,
I will be overseas for grad school next year, and would very much like to carry on studying with my bass teacher in NYC. Studying during vacations will be no problem because I will be back in NYC, but during term-time we had talked about doing lessons over Skype. We tried it once before and it didn't work because the sound quality was poor and the audio kept on dropping out.
I was wondering if anyone's ever tried doing a lesson over Skype and, if it was successful, how did you manage the technological aspects?
Thanks much!</p>
<p>My D had done it a couple of times with pretty good success. She uses an external logitech microphone (she also uses it for Finale), and places it across the room. We found that the computer has to be “hard-wired” for internet though. Anytime she tried using our wireless router, it was too slow with too much delay.</p>
<p>D3 had a SKype lesson recently when her teacher was out of town - she uses a PC and had some issues with it dropping out but her studiomates with Macs had no trouble at all. This was using a wireless network, but the issue wasn’t speed, just overall signal.</p>
<p>Ok so probably what I was doing wrong was playing straight into the microphone. It probably overloaded Skype somehow… Maybe we can try it again at some point and see if we can make it work. Thanks for the input!</p>