Klarinet Archive - Posting 000103.txt from 2011/03

From: "Kathy Williams-DeVries" <kathleenwilliams76@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] YouTube as clarinet pedagogy tool
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:08:40 -0400

Hello everyone

I subscribe to a YouTube channel call TEDtalksDirector, which broadcasts
talks from TED. It is a marvellous sort of information. This Video gave me
an idea..

Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTFEUsudhfs

What if we could do the same with clarinet playing? In researching a thesis
for clarinet pedagogy on YouTube, finding mainly videos of 3-5 minutes, I
thought, well, with my YouTube account able to upload videos of any length,
up to 20G in size, what if we could plumb the minds of clarinet legends in
videos from 30-60 minutes. I have plans in mind for a Brisbane
Conservatorium Professor, but what if you had David Etheridge talk for half
an hour about staccato, or legato, Ricardo Morales on his time at the Met,
Robert Spring, Antony Pay talking about period clarinet playing.. How
incredibly marvellous would that be? Can you imagine a channel where you
could locate any professional clarinettist/pedagogue in the world, and have
them talk at length about any aspect of clarinet technique.

The main point of the video above is that the students can do the homework
in class and take the video home with them and watch it again and again til
they understood it and got it right. I myself recorded all my lessons last
year and I improved out of sight (and have some incriminating footage of one
of my clarinet professors singing with a quality of voice that would cause
great embarrassment if I released it on Youtube, who know who you are BC
lol)

I have tried to start the project on my channel, but I am no clarinet
professor with 40-50 years teaching and professional playing experience.
Maybe that is what I should base a Churchill Fellowship on, interviewing
major professors around the world on pet subjects in great depth and posting
it to YouTube.

But, ah, I'm a dreamer, but I feel one can explain one's point if one has
the time on video, whereas it might be harder to really capture the essence
of a topic when you only have a certain amount of lines to say it in.

I only mention it because a friend of mine doing an MBA said he enjoyed the
instructional videos and thought I might be able to go commercial.

Regards,

Kathy Williams-DeVries

BMusPerf (Hons)

Grad Dip Arts (Shakespeare Studies)

ATCL, LTCL

0404946839

www.kathywilliams76.com

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