Announcing PianoTechnique.org - by pianists for pianists
Technique and methods
18 posts
Started 18 Jan 2017
A
A pianist
It's been awhile since you heard from me, so I figured a quick update wouldn't harm. We are at 172 individual lessons, 7 public series, 13 private series (over 400 lessons) and 5 teachers at the moment. Of course, Alan is responsible for over 90% of our uploads. Private series are sort of the latest big feature. What we do there is give you access to any workshops/aff institutes you might have attended but the content is closed for public and other members as well. Some of the other cool things we have introduced are lesson favoriting and marking lessons as watched. As our libraries grow, I thought I should introduce a system where an user can track what he/she has seen or not. So, all the unedited videos from AFF Institutes get published in private series but I do edit them as I go and publish some of them in the general library. If you attended an institute and want to see your lesson, please sign up and let me know which institute you attended. I will give you access to it right away.
Check out this lecture on how to learn a piece of music!
See you there!
Jovan
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A pianist
I have been a member for nearly a year now (even though I only started watching seriously recently), and I'm quite happy with the idea and the lecture. They inspired me in ways that books and other teachers can't do. However, I do find the audio quality of the video to be suboptimal... the sound (especially the human voice) is not that clear.This is due to the quality of the recorder used, or in the compression during the upload process. I am not sure what devices are used. But may I suggest devices like Zoom's Q4 or Q3HD? They are inexpensive and very convenient, and they apparently produce videos with a much better sound quality. In fact they are designed for musicians who want easy solution to record their own playing. (I have both of these myself and you can easily find samples of videos recorded using these devices on youtube) Just in case I am being misunderstood for promoting certain products, there's a similar product by Sony which should be about the same as Zoom Q4. Since Alan is such a heavy user of video recorder, I think it's a very good investment to make his video lectures even better.
The sony:
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Alanfraserpiano
Hey Alvin,
Thank you very much for the suggestion. The last camcorder upgrade I made addressed inferior picture quality but I have not known how to address the audio. Will check your suggestions out and likely upgrade soon.
AFF
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A pianist
We hit 200 lessons and it's a freebie!
A
A pianist
We got the new equipment but we are really not happy with the sound and video quality, especially video. The latest Q&A videos were shot with the new cam and the video is grainy and over exposed.
A
A pianist
We hit 300th upload today!
Don't miss out!
A
A pianist
Just hit 400th upload! WhoHoo!!!
A
A pianist
A little bit of update on the app. I have been working on a new version for some time now. It's almost ready to go live, in about a week or so. Stay tuned!
-Jovan
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