Online education has become not only relevant, practical, and popular, but gradually more respected. At the same time, for music students the encounter has been mostly a one-way conversation in which students study videos showing a particular technique. Now, there’s an effort to create a dialogue.
One company that offers this “video exchange” is the ArtistWorks Classical Campus (artistswork.com). It not only offers videos by prominent teachers, along with sheet music, lessons, and a variety of resources, but also an exchange in which you send in a video of yourself playing — using a smart phone or video camera — and in return you receive a video offering personal instruction. Here’s an example.
Your exchange is kept in the Cloud so that other students can view them as well. There are classes in classical guitar, piano, clarinet, violin, French horn, flute, and trumpet. There are different plans that range from about $20 to $30 a month. Might be worth checking out.