The document discusses using YouTube videos to teach piano accompaniment. It outlines the challenges of traditional teaching methods and how technology can help. The author proposes having students accompany solo piano performances from YouTube videos to develop listening and adaptability skills. Lessons would involve warming up, then each student taking a turn accompanying different video recordings for 15 minutes. The goal is to prepare students for live accompaniment by learning to adapt to a soloist's musical expression and changes in real time.
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1. Using Youtube In
Teaching Piano Accompaniment
Goran Brkovic
Piano Teacher
High School of Music Vojislav-Lale Stefanovic
Uzice, Serbia
@gbrkovic
September 29, 2012
2. The main problem in teaching
piano accompaniment
The main goal - to develop adaptability
The main problem - how to achieve it efficiently
Solo piano vs. piano accompaniment
What's easier?
What's more complex?
3. The old way we used to teach it
and the problems it involved
The old fashioned piano accompaniment class:
one piano student plays imitating the soloist, the other
piano students plays along piano accompany part
no adaptation to the real soloist
Limited usability
- no preparation for the real public performance
4. The new way: how technology can
help teachers and students
Increased class usability:
- accompanying several performances from Youtube
- use each YT recording only once
- preparation for the public performance
Developing:
- listening skills
- adaptability
5. Teacher's preparation for the lesson
choosing the pieces
searching YT for useful performances
saving the links, making notes and reflections about
students' achievements
allowing some time for students to read and learn the
pieces
6. Lesson Goals & Timing
Lesson goals:
- learning to catch the agogics on the fly
- developing listening to changes of the harmonies and dynamic expressiveness
Lesson duration:
- 45 minutes, two students, 3 x 15 minutes
1) warming up - 15 minutes
2) one student accompanying YT video recording - 15 minutes
3) the other student accompanying YT video - 15 minutes
8. Using Youtube In
Teaching Piano Accompaniment
Goran Brkovic
Piano Teacher
Music School Vojislav-Lale Stefanovic
Uzice, Serbia
@gbrkovic
September 29, 2012