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Author: kurth83
Date: 2025-11-27 01:45
I did it very successfully with mandolin lessons, but we never played duets together.
Personally, being able to see and hear a good player up close is useful. I always compare my volume and tone to my teacher's. You could live without that though, especially if you are playing in groups with good players, and I believe you could get most of the benefit from online lessons. So if that's your only option it's a pretty good one compared to no lessons.
When my teacher plays passages for me I pay very close attention to the style and expression. All of that would come through nicely I think.
The reason you can't play duets easily is due to online lag, the speed of the internet is laggy enough that precise playing together is hard. A 10-100ms delay doesn't sound like much until you try to play with someone, and it's doubled by the round trip.
Even during the pre-digital days, the speed of electricity wasn't fast enough if you were more than about 50-100 miles apart. And digital is slower than that. If you minimize the physical distance, like one or two states away as opposed to a separate continent, you might be able to play slow passages together.
You need a good camera that let's them see your fingers and embouchure. Most built-in cameras these days are more than up to the task.
Aging classical trumpet player learning clarinet as a second.
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2025-11-27 20:30
I tried to do a presentation over the internet but did NOT take take the volume difference between spoken word and the sound of the clarinet into consideration. Ideally, you need two microphones and two different peak settings on a small mixer and toggle between them as needed. Without this, your voice will be too low for the person on the other side to hear well, OR the clarinet will blow out their speakers. Bottom line, unless you have been at the other end or are intimately familiar the equipment and settings the other person is using, you’ll NEVER know what that person is really hearing. Therefore I wouldn’t do it again.
…………Paul Aviles
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