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Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2007-05-23 23:20
I have seen several web sites that advertise live music lessons using webcams. Apparently, both the teacher and the student are using cameras and mikes to be able to see and hear each other during a lesson. Has anyone had experience with this and how well did it work?
(I tried this post on the clarinet BBoard and only got one response....how about oboe players? - jg)
John Gibson, Founder of JB Linear Music, www.music4woodwinds.com
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Author: JudyP
Date: 2007-05-24 04:05
I guess this is still new technology for us, but I'd be interested in
knowing more about it.
I'm some what familiar with web cams, but I think I threw mine away.
It was just sitting around and becoming out dated.
What kind of fee is being charged for these web cam lessons?
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Author: Dutchy
Date: 2007-05-24 13:19
Out of curiosity I registered as a student with the one that comes up as hit #1 on Google for "webcam music lessons", and found that all fees are set by the instructor. One Tina Guo is charging $100 per 30 minute lesson for piano/keyboard lessons; others, with fewer awards on their resume, are charging $25.
So far all this particular website offers is bass (which seems to include both double bass and bass guitar), cello, drum, guitar, piano/keyboard, "recording" (I have no idea what this would be), violin (but there are no instructors signed up yet), vocal, and "ztar", which according to Google is a "midi guitar".
No oboe. No "serious" orchestral/band instruments at all, other than Tina Guo with her cello and the guy who plays double bass.
And since all lessons are transmitted through headphones, I can't imagine how an oboe teacher could adequately evaluate such things as intonation, since we've already established that recorded oboe tone is elusive.
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Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2007-05-24 14:17
There are a couple of people on the clarinet BBoard that are planning to experiment with the idea, so we may hear more about how it goes from them. I haven't found anyone teaching oboe this way, although one person is teaching violin successfully (http://www.violinnovation.net/), so she seems to be able to get along with the hearing situation as a teacher.
This idea may be a little ahead of its time for the available technology, but with more and more bandwidth it may be getting to be a viable idea.
John Gibson, Founder of JB Linear Music, www.music4woodwinds.com
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