There's a large community of musicians who supplement their income with Skype lessons these days. For $45 I can have an hour with some of the best musicians in

There's a large community of musicians who supplement their income with Skype lessons these days. For $45 I can have an hour with some of the best musicians in world and folk music for example - heroes whose CDs I listened to as a teenager. Whether they're in Florida, Dublin, Germany or here in Seattle, location has stopped being a barrier. It's awesome. But Skype and Google talk are both terrible for it; there's no easy place to show notes (of the wordy kind or the musical kind), a mock instrument would be great too, to show learners new chord shapes, for example. And the audio encoding on the video streams are optimized for speech, making music a bit warbley at times. It'd be great to see tools like this adapted to music lessons, and I bet it's more sustainable business with more opportunities to create real value (store lesson plans for example).