The document discusses using YouTube videos to teach piano accompaniment. It outlines the challenges of traditional teaching methods and how technology can help. Specifically, it proposes having students accompany solo piano performances from YouTube videos to develop their listening, adaptability, and preparation for live accompaniment. The lesson would involve students taking turns accompanying different video recordings for 15 minutes each while the teacher evaluates their progress.
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Using Youtube In Teaching Piano Accompaniment
1. Using Youtube In
Teaching Piano Accompaniment
Goran Brkovic
Piano Teacher
Music School ¡°Vojislav-Lale Stefanovic¡±
Uzice, Serbia
@gbrkovic
April 25, 2012
2. The main problem in teaching
piano accompaniment
¡ñ The main goal - to develop adaptability
¡ñ The main problem - how to achieve it efficiently
¡ñ Solo piano vs. piano accompaniment
¡ñ What's easier?
¡ñ What's more complex?
3. The old way we used to teach it
and the problems it involved
The old fashioned piano accompaniment class:
¡ñ one piano student plays imitating the soloist, the other
piano students plays along piano accompany part
¡ñ 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
¡ñ choosing the pieces
¡ñ searching YT for useful performances
¡ñ saving the links, making notes and reflections about
students' achievements
¡ñ 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
April 25, 2012