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Is YouTube Killing Music Teacher ? (All Teachers)
Is YouTube killing Music Teachers ?
In most lessons someone will have seen something on you tube about a particular song or technique. Some of the lessons are very good and I will use them to research topics myself. But is this the end of music teachers ? I think NO. It does set a higher standard of knowledge and can catch out poorer teachers. Even after a student has looked at a video there can be problems in technique and understanding at which point a good teacher can be invaluable in providing feedback. A good teacher can also pick the best tutorial for a student to study. So embrace you tube.
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I encourage YouTube for when I’m not around (e.g. between lesson practice!). But nothing beats the 1-2-1 experience! There’s always limits to what Youtube can offer you, especially with singing as you can’t just copy in the same way. I think it’s fruitful having several resources!
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I don’t think youtube is killing the music teacher!
But, youtube DOES get me a little riled up, especially as a singing teacher (I don’t know how much this is the case for guitar teachers), because there’s so much misinformation out there! Content marketing has meant that every man and his dog thinks they’re the fount of all knowledge when it comes to singing (or at least would like to be for SEO purposes). Thankfully once students are sometimes confused out of their minds, they’ll decide to book in a lesson with a teacher, and start to clear things up. But I’ve had some students come to me with some really weeeeird ideas about singing that have come from youtube. -
Interesting, so it’s HELPING the singing teacher! Actually I’m going to go back on what I said – I actually only encourage Youtube for piano help rather than singing..
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My students are either too young to really properly access YouTube or, if they are older, they tell me that they find it hard to follow and complain that it is not interactive. A YouTube tutor can’t reach out through the screen and place that stray finger where it needs to be – if that ever happens though, I think we’re all out of a job!
More and more people will be learning online – oh how I wish YouTube had been around in my youth – it would have saved YEARS of endeavour. Equally I think enough people are realising that one-to-one tuition is really the most effective way to learn, so us teachers should be safe for a while yet. -
Hello, no I don’t think it will kill the 1 to 1 experience of learning for either singing or guitar … It does get a little frustrating from students who get a bit cocky and say… “are you sure the song goes like that, this guy on YouTube said it was”… It’s like the student thinks YouTube (like some of those dodgy tab sites out there) is the holy grail, when in fact it is usually just someone in their bedroom who has just uploaded their own version of the song etc!!
But oh well, I don’t think it stop people using tutors especially begginers as the guitar and singing are so hard to learn in the early stages
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