Online Music Lessons
You see a lot on the Internet these days about online
lessons. Mostly people are talking about the switch to online studies that most
schools have made and there have been quite a number of critical opinions about
this voiced.
Certainly the challenges of delivering quality online
lessons to a class are a bit formidable.
Even one on one video tutoring can be problematic, if there has not been
enough preparation for use of this medium and, certainly, events have demanded
that many make an immediate jump.
Online music lessons, on the other hand, have been around
for a long time and many have made a good study of the most effective ways to
deliver online music lessons.
Indeed, with the technology available and the correct
preparation of teaching materials, online music lessons can be every bit as
effective as music lessons in person.
One of the challenges of it is not just demonstrating the
technique of the instrument but the theory end of it; reading notes or chords
and such things. Teaching the rudiments is especially a problem and it is not
well solved by simply holding a book up to the screen and pointing, saying ‘see
this thing here? That’s a half note!’
This is where good screen sharing technology comes in and
several ‘video meeting’ platforms have great screen sharing capabilities.
The video in this post is a very short example of screen
sharing on the Zoom.us platform. In it, I’m sharing a previously made video
about violin technique. You can see me as I’m sharing it in the upper right
corner.
One can also share anything that can be displayed on the
computer desktop such as EBooks and materials that are prepared as PDFs or Word
Docs as well as pictures, of course.
One can switch back and forth between the screen sharing and
the live screen where the teacher can watch the student play or play and
demonstrate for the student on the instrument.
A good teacher will have lots of material prepared to screen
share and then he can even send the material directly to the student. This is
digitalized material that can be shared and sent quickly and it supports and
elaborates on any regular printed lesson books that might be used.
These lessons can also be recorded obviously and made
available for the student to review on his own later, if he desires and this is
an added bonus that you don’t even get from in person lessons.
If you’d like to find out more about online music lessons,
go to my Facebook page;
Brian’s Music Lessons.
Brian’s Music Lessons.
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