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[quote=Hugh Sung Ustream.tv actually has an option to apply a password to the broadcast for private viewing. [/quote]
Apologies. I stand corrected
I only had a quick look, and wrongly got that impression.
I am still looking forward to the day when Skype offers video conferencing. They advertise it, but then say it is not yet available. Apart from that, I find Skype to be most reliable.
Slightly off topic, but I am interested, Hugh, in how you use multiple cameras? I use two analog cameras with Skype, using a video switch box to flip between the two. A more elegant solution, would be great.
Is the main idea of the series to enable beginning students to be able to play a much more advanced and beautiful work then they would normally be able to do so they will become inspired and love to play/practice the piano? Or is this meant to be a method for learning every new piece? Or is the idea to have a video of measure by measure "pre instructions" so they can deal with a piece that they normally would find too difficult?
It's really helpful to read the whole thread, because the comments from the people following along will shed some light on what the videos are addressing for them - I think there's been some of all of the above here. Hugh also responds with his thoughts on what he could offer differently. You might have some of your questions addressed before starting to have them duplicated here.
It might turn out it's not for you, but the other participants have some interesting insights. It might turn out that something similar might work for you, but not this particular set of videos. Dive in -
Cathy
Cathy Perhaps "more music" is always the answer, no matter what the question might be! - Qwerty53
Woody- I am no tech person either, but it took me one morning and a bit of the afternoon to figure out how to quickly make a video with what I already had which was web cam that came with my Toshiba laptop computer. You might find this thread helpful.
Cathy, Thanks for posting the link to the teachers' thread . I've been busy watching AB thread, didn't know about it. Wow I just went there and started reading, it is very interesting. Good to see that other teachers adimire what Hugh has done. I agree that Hugh's teaching method is very unique and effective, not just about computer technology, but something like the Bell he used to demonstrate how you should hit the piano key made a deep impression on me. Keyboardklutz mentions it too in this teachers' thread.
This is a relatively easy measure. We see how "reminder" flats are used even when technically not necessary. I show two different pedal options. We go back to measure 19 and go over the differing rhythms, moving between duples ("buzzing") and triplets ("bum-ble-bee"). The trickiest portion to practice will be the left hand jumping quickly to catch the triplet rhythm.
Hugh, Both of the links did work but I even tried re-booting my computer and still have a blank space in the posting. Carl said his is working so it must be something down here. Woody
You raised several very interesting points, and here are a few personal thoughts and comments:
<<Is the main idea of the series to enable beginning students to be able to play a much more advanced and beautiful work then they would normally be able to do so they will become inspired and love to play/practice the piano? >>
Yes!
Sometimes, the "advanced" element is largely in the notation and reading the score, rather than the physical movements required (such as in this piece where there's sections in either 4flats/4sharps and so on). It provides methods and strategies to catalyse/accelerate the learning process.
<<Or is this meant to be a method for learning every new piece?>>
Yes!
I am a poor music sight reader, I consider myself to be a "decypherer" (e.g. "C" ..."a"...."t" oh its "cat" and so forth). I've found that by applying Hugh's very detailed review process to the current piece that I'm working on and identifying all the notes, considering all the fingering and so on, that it seems to be getting into my fingers much faster than the pieces I've studied during the last 2 years. Whilst I have been breaking my pieces into sections and identifying the hard bars, I hadn't gone as far as clinically dissecting down to each and every note so thoroughly, (I let this evolve with time (wasting time)). So during this week I stopped all "regular practice" on my current piece until I'd completed this process which took several hours or more over a couple of days. I will certainly be approaching all my pieces like this from now on.
<<Or is the idea to have a video of measure by measure "pre instructions" so they can deal with a piece that they normally would find too difficult?>>
Yes!
Funnily enough, I'd written a bit about this on my Blog. If you were going to climb a mountain you'd read a guide book and take a map (even if it was just a day long hike). If it was an expedition lasting weeks, you'd probably have a Guide. We may spend weeks or months studying a piece. So I can definately see the need for this bar-by-bar dissection of a piece together with informed advice on fingering, pedalling and putting it all together as being potentially very useful (if it were commercially available and from a reputable source).
There appears to be a lot of the old carpenter's saying here of "Measure twice cut once" (or similar) as well. That is, plan what you are going to practice and figure it all out carefully, before learning to play the parts (and possibly hard-coding in weak points, stutters, misstakes and so on). Figuring out all the fingering and notes, up front, checking how one phrase flows into the next, slowly and carefully seems so obvious and very important to me now.
<<Or something else??>>
Get everything you can from these tutorials. Even the simple things like crossing out the tied notes seems to help make things easier for me.
I can see that it may also be possible, that by being so careful and clinical with the study of the score of new pieces that once this process becomes instinctive and habitual, that there could well be major benefits towards improved sight-reading.
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. I've been busy watching AB thread, didn't know about it. Wow I just went there and started reading, it is very interesting. Good to see that other teachers adimire what Hugh has done. I agree that Hugh's teaching method is very unique and effective, not just about computer technology, but something like the Bell he used to demonstrate how you should hit the piano key made a deep impression on me. Keyboardklutz mentions it too in this teachers' thread.
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