1. Using Youtube In
Teaching Piano Accompaniment
Goran Brkovic
Piano Teacher
Music School “Vojislav-Lale Stefanovic”
Uzice, Serbia
@gbrkovic
April 25, 2012
2. The main problem in teaching
piano accompaniment
● The main goal - to develop adaptability
● The main problem - how to achieve it efficiently
● Solo piano vs. piano accompaniment
● What's easier?
● What's more complex?
3. The old way we used to teach it
and the problems it involved
The old fashioned piano accompaniment class:
● one piano student plays imitating the soloist, the other
piano students plays along piano accompany part
● no adaptation to the real soloist
Limited usability
- no preparation for the real public performance
4. The new way: how technology can
help teachers and students
Increased class usability:
- accompanying several performances from Youtube
- use each YT recording only once
- preparation for the public performance
Developing:
- listening skills
- adaptability
5. Teacher's preparation for the lesson
● choosing the pieces
● searching YT for useful performances
● saving the links, making notes and reflections about
students' achievements
● allowing some time for students to read and learn the
pieces
6. Lesson Goals & Timing
Lesson goals:
- learning to catch the agogics on the fly
- developing listening to changes of the harmonies and dynamic expressiveness
Lesson duration:
- 45 minutes, two students, 3 x 15 minutes
1) warming up - 15 minutes
2) one student accompanying YT video recording - 15 minutes
3) the other student accompanying YT video - 15 minutes
8. Using Youtube In
Teaching Piano Accompaniment
Goran Brkovic
Piano Teacher
Music School “Vojislav-Lale Stefanovic”
Uzice, Serbia
@gbrkovic
April 25, 2012
