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Author: Bill
Date: 2012-11-15 22:34
It's amazing to me to observe what YouTube has become for clarinetists compared to what it was just, say, 5 years ago. SO many great things!!! The Drucker masterclasses, the *wonderful* Backun videos (I love Jose Franch-Ballester), and everything else. What a change! In the 90s it seemd like the web offered very little to clarinetists. I would have *freaked* 15 years ago to see what I can see today.
I sound really old, right?
Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2012-11-16 13:48
I have Masters from YOUTUBE University (COP) in "Cats on Pianos."
....................Paul Aviles
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Author: Bill
Date: 2012-11-16 16:22
LOL!
Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)
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Author: 2E
Date: 2012-11-19 03:52
While there is a lot of great stuff on youtube, you can also get a lot of awful stuff.
Anyone seen the *cringe* "expert village" clarinet videos? yuck ...
2E
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2012-11-20 07:37
I felt badly about my initial flippant response as soon as I wrote it. The internet has some pretty useful information and certainly should be used as an adjunct to any serious study of the horn.
Were it falls short is that it is a two dimensional media. The presentation "is what it is" regardless if you "get it" or not. Also the sound is so limited in the recording and playback modes you CANNOT get a real sense of what wonderful players really sound like. A great player can achieve a pianissimo that will fill a room with a liquid purple texture, but all you'll get off the internet (even if your IPAD is plugged into a $10,000 sound system) is a very pale representation of the core sound.
So yes, I think there is room for some serious learning tools with YOUTUBE and other such internet renderings, but it can ONLY be used in addition to attending live performances and having a real teacher respond to YOUR issues. And that goes for instrument repair and the such as well.
..................Paul Aviles
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Author: Clarimeister
Date: 2012-11-20 08:17
^The reason for that wonderful distortion and bad sound is because of the double-edged sword known as audio compression. It's good and bad because you save space, but compromise sound quality. I agree with you even on that principal, because there is nothing better than the source in a beautiful concert hall. But with audio quality, I almost always try to get WAV or FLAC format if possible!
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