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Post by surfinboy on May 12, 2023 0:36:02 GMT -5
As a teacher, for years I shied away from encouraging students to check out Youtube lessons, fearing that it would appear as a slight against my teaching abilities, cheapen my status as an instructor or threaten my work. But lately I've been suggesting them to students as a possible learning tool to use in between lessons. I always give the caveats to take Youtube lessons with a grain of salt and that nothing is as good as an in-person lesson. But I provide tips on finding quality videos, and I encourage students to share the links with me so I can offer my feedback. In the end, my job is to give students every opportunity to make progress, and they're going to come back to me anyway to discuss them. Where's the glory in holding students back if I know of high-quality resources that can help them?
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Post by ninworks on May 12, 2023 13:10:00 GMT -5
Good on you. I'm not a teacher but I have tremendous respect for those who do it well.
Anything that will help a student stay interested is important. Whatever it takes!!
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Post by LTB on May 13, 2023 17:01:11 GMT -5
Yeah, they lack that personal touch!
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Post by Larry Madsen on May 14, 2023 18:07:51 GMT -5
I certainly see no problem with YouTube and a professional instructor, especially if you can work in conjunction with a student's YouTube interest.
Heck, you can't possibly keep them off of, or from using YouTube.
My guess is you will find instance where you can confirm that a particular offering is excellent instruction and in fact might even help you become an even better instructor yourself.
Then there will be plenty of times where you can build upon or make corrections to an offering. The best part of that is ... when a student brings a particular Youube offering into focus you can be certain you have discovered a point of interest for that particular student.
IMO that right there is about 90% of the battle. I train for a living and if a student asks a question or is honing on a particular topic, I am best served by taking advantage of that moment. That is an in the moment demonstration of a committed desire to learn.
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Post by funkykikuchiyo on May 15, 2023 10:31:35 GMT -5
There is a lot of good content on youtube and a lot of bad content on youtube. That's true for music, personal fitness, finances, woodworking, you name it. I hadn't really thought of it in this context before, though.
If you lose patience with a student on something and tell them "find some videos on this", that makes you a bad teacher, even if there are good videos. If you can identify a weak spot and know of a video with good exercises and/or explanations saying "check these videos" makes you a good teacher. The best videos I've seen on instruction are the ones where I'd have to keep replaying it and really spend time with it, not just watch it then go grab my guitar. I guess it isn't much different than a lesson book, is it? None of us liked teachers that just taught from the book and offered nothing else. It left us wondering why we're paying the teacher when we could've just bought the book. But, a good teacher knows how to use the book, knows when to tell them go to back to an earlier exercise because they didn't quite get it right, and knows when the student can skip a few pages.
Just thinking out loud...
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Post by markfromhawaii on May 16, 2023 11:24:30 GMT -5
I’ve done a 7 week workshop and wrote a manual, soon to be online (hopefully) on worship leading. Some of it goes into a bit of music theory. I mention checking out Rick Beato on YT.
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Post by mikem on Nov 6, 2023 21:22:04 GMT -5
I've recommended Youtube to my instrumental students for them to search for "heroes" on their particular instrument ie; Trumpet: Doc Severinsen, Arturo Sandoval, Maynard Ferguson - Saxophone: Michael Brecker, Dexter Gordon, Bird, etc.
Youtube is a great resource.
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