ecarroll

TMers,

I'm starting this thread because I have absolutely no knowledge of it at all (many would argue that this is a common state. . . talk to my auto mecanic sometime).

Have any of you taken/given a lesson over the internet? If so, please describe? Can this be made to work?

Thanks in advance,
EC

tpter1

Ed-
I was doing something similar to this last year with my former trumpet professor from college. He was using iChat AV and an iSight camera. It's the best possible set up in terms of speed/latency issues. We were going to try this from his studio and my public school but, alas, iChat is filtered and does not allow login on our end, and we could not get it to work. I would imagine it should work quite well.

Tech needs include at least an iMac that will run OSX, with an 800mhz processor, and iSight camera (now built in to the latest iMacs), iChat AV.

If you'd like, I'll pm you his info and you can take it from there.

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ecarroll

Glenn,

I'm not so much interested in actually doing it as I am learning about it.
The liabilities would seem pretty obvious to me but I'm fascinated. . .

EC

TrentAustin

My attempt at online improv lessons (jazzimprov.net) didn't really take off the way I wanted it to. Online correspondence lessons sounded good initially but just fizzled out a bit.

I might bring the site back... I'm thinking about it seriously. Now with DSL and videocams it would be more successful I'd bet.
-T

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Xtrumpet

Hi Ed,

This is my first posting!

I know that "Maestro" Zuckerman, violin star and now conductor of the National Arts Center Orchestra has taught via internet.

Here is a link to an article about it:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/01/01/zukerman.html


Cheers,

Xylo

ecarroll

Xello Xylo, and welcome to TM. . .

I remember a collaboration between Eastman and The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama of this sort 4 or 5 years ago. Jim Thompson gave a lesson to a kid in Glasgow via uplink. Technology has become better -- certainly cheaper -- since then.

Best,
EC

anrapa

Hello everyone!
I've been asked by a friend to share my experience with internet lessons:

One year ago I decided to make a website to share my recordings of trumpet exercises in Mp3 format. I'm from Italy and here I struggled to find a suitable teacher for my needs (Chicago School is somewhat rare here). I always suffered the lack of this teaching support and I decided to start recording myself.
Now I have more than one thousand recordings on my website, they can be downloaded for free and, thanks to that, many trumpet players started asking me if I could give online lessons.
I've been teaching for many years now but I never thought about that before. So I experimented this new thing with a couple of friends/students and I found it to be pratically the same as being there with the student:

Problems: you can't kick the student when he does a mistake... (LOL, kidding!).
Someone thinks that you cannot check the embochure very well (image quality is quite fine but not enough to closely look at lips unless you go closer to the web cam). In my opinion this is a fake problem for a Chicago School teacher/student...
Again people think sound quality is not good enough to understand whether you have a good tone or not. This is not true at all: if you can have smooth video over the internet sound is practically perfect!!! If you spend 50/100 bucks in a decent mike (and they are money well spent anyway for any recording you are going to make in your life...) you can't really complain!!!
Books, someone says: "what if I don't have that method book?". If you don't have the book yourself how can you study at home? Moreover, if you need just a page I can scan and send it to you instantly (I scanned ALL my books for this purpose).

Why online lessons are better than normal ones?
1) you can choose your teacher (I have students in 6 different countries in USA/Europe/Asia) when the one you have is not good for you or simply you live in a lonely place...
2) You don't have to spend money on gas to go to and back from the teacher
3) You save time for the trip (I used to take jazz trumpet lessons from a well know, even in the US, trumpet player 30 miles from where I live and I gave up because of the time I spent just for the trip!!!)
4) You can do lessons even if you go out for a trip/work in a different location (a couple of my students have this need)

Ah, one last thing: since many people still think online lessons are still worse than normal ones I ask a lot less money than the general fares are. I pay 70 to 100 EURO for one hour lesson (91 to 130$!!!) with my (incredible) teacher in Italy and I ask less than half for the ones I give online.

I hope you found what I wrote useful!
If you need any other info just ask!

Tony

Ah, here's my website: www.webalice.it/anrapa

My Skype nick: anrapaskype
My MSN nick: anrapa@tin.it
My AIM/iChat nick: anrapa@mac.com

Bye!

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