Get ready for online music lessons with ZOOM
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- A look at getting ready for online music lessons using the Zoom meetings application.
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Time stamps
0:00 Intro
1:35 Installing the app.
7:05 Room set up
12:00 Tips and tricks
For advice on safeguarding issues please Google 'Devon music hub safeguarding for online lessons' for the best information I've found to date.
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Thank you, so much. Learning about sharing the ipad screen was extremely helpful. Stay healthy!!
Thank you very much Alastair. I appreciate all the clear advice and suggestions you so willingly shared with everyone. It will be quite a learning curve for me however your explanation has really helped me on my way. Cheers!
Thanks for explaining it all Alastair. Yours has been the best tutorial I've watched in my research. Enjoy your teaching!
Thanks very much for watching and a lovely comment.
Thank you so much for this! I’ve only just become aware of Zoom, and was wondering about the possibilities for music. Now all of my questions are answered. What impeccable timing!
All the best Nancy.
This is the finest explanation I have seen. It is respectful, clear and generous. Thank you!
Wow, thank you!
Thanks so much, Alistair! I will be doing this for my public school music students in the US.
so pleased to find this! i watched all your EWI videos until they stopped (!) and you are possibly the only person making tutorials who speaks slowly enough and clearly enough so i can both hear & understand! thank you again! (oh, i obviously didn't click the little bell all those years ago!) :-)
Glad you like them!
This is so useful Alistair. Regardless of whether used for music tuition or not, this is the best, most comprehensive tutorial on Zoom I’ve seen anywhere.
Very kind of you. Thanks Lee.
Have watched many tutorials. Your's is most detailed and experienced. Still so much work!!
Excellent and wonderfully clear explanation from Alistair Parnell. The only suggestion I have is that if using a Desktop computer which has an ethernet connection, use it. The internet access speed is far more reliable and in fact faster (that is faster from computer to the router) and the latency may possibly be shorter.
There are very few teacher who are as good at "teaching" than Alistair Parnell.
Thanks for another terrifically helpful tutorial !
I’m just getting started with online lessons and this video was very helpful. Thanks.
Thanks so much for watching Peg Barrett
Thank you very much, this is a great tutorial and very helpful for music teachers in this challenging time.
After a lifetime of face-to-face lessons, this is going to be quite an adventure! Thank you for your assistance and inspiration.
Thanks Tesa and good luck. Give it a while to settle down.
Thank you this has been most helpful!
awesome Alistair. Such a great help - I feel empowered!!
Thank you, Alistair. Very helpful and informative for me as a teacher about to start experimenting with this at this challenging time for us all.
Thanks. I’ve been teaching for two weeks with zoom and with your video I will venture out with the different settings. Thank you.
Good luck and stay well.
Thank-you, Alistair. That told me an amazing amount and I loved the 'work-a rounds' that you suggested re time lag and sharing information. My singing teacher mentioned Zoom during our last Skype lesson so this was a great introduction. Cheers :)
You're very welcome!
Thank you for discussing the Audio settings for musical instruments in the Tips & Tricks section.
Understanding the "Turn Off" Original Sound will be showing on the screen is crucial!
Ray Belcher , But how can a pupil turn original sound on/off on a tablet or phone ?
As far as I can see, there is no way to turn original sound on or off on anything other than a PC. It may work for all your devices if you originally downloaded the app first to a PC or laptop & adjust the audio settings, then start the meeting on the PC/laptop & then merely join the meeting on any extra devices. Make sure that the original sound option, (top left of home screen) is on the greyed out setting, not the Blue setting (this turns the sound processing crap back on again!! Good luck
Thank you for sharing your experience with online teaching. I've been teaching band instruments since 1972 and have been wanting to expand my teaching expertise to online instruction and now forced to get busy! Besides private instruction, I have 250 music students to teach each week grades 1 through 5 and having to think creatively. Thanks for reviewing the share screen and especially the audio settings. This opens up many more possibilities. I miss playing along with students and hope that some day soon there will be a way to connect in real time. Thumbs up!
Many thanks.
excellent overview. very clear step by step. I've just started taking lessons and this was very helpful - I'll be sending on to others!
Thanks very much Joe
Thank you so much for your insights, Alistair! I'm in CA, and going to start up online lessons on Monday. I'm hoping I can figure it all out, but I know that my students will have no trouble! (piano, violin and guitar) p.s. Love your accent! :)
First zoom lesson with a student this afternoon. This really helped. Thank you Alistair. Stay safe. Music is life.
All the best. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I knew more than my student about the technology: that's a first! Thanks again.
The best zoom tutorial by far.
Thanks.
Wow, thanks!
Thank you for the tutorial, Mr. Parnell. Your explanation was very clear and concise! Love your pug!:)
Thank you.
Excellent video...thanks so much! Very thorough and enjoyable!
This is the first time I’ve seen the tip about screen sharing with an iPad and ForeScore...so cool!
Great stuff. Thanks.
Thank you Alistair thats an excellent explanation. I am a Drum teacher of some 40 years experience and have been doing Skype lessons and Face time live through OBS. You have convinced me to look again at Zoom. Once again thanks for your very informative piece!
Many thanks and good luck
Thank you, Alistair! Very well presented and extremely useful information! Love from across the pond!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for providing this information. I will give this a try this week.
Thanks Alistair for your helpful video and your positive energy and attitude! All the best & stay well!
Many thanks Gyan. I'm so pleased it helped you.
Thank you so much Alistair!! Very helpful, thank you for taking the time
Thank you for watching. 👍
Thank you so much, I have managed to sort settings and mirror with iPad, invaluable.
Thanks so much, I will share this with my studio, beautifully explained!
Thank you so very much for making and sharing this video. Very well laid out and presented. Liked and subscribed
Hello Alistair. I'm a music teacher living in Mexico. Thank you for this lovely video, for explaining how to do this and helping me make my mind up between Zoom or another app.
Glad it was helpful!
Many thanks. Excellent starting point.
That was great Alastair! Thanks. I'm just getting started with online teaching and that was very helpful.
Good luck Peter.
Really thanks for sharing your tips for online lesson.
Thanks so much for sharing!!! really useful and easy to follow!
Thank you so much Alistair, I found this video absolutely brilliant. I teach music but as I'm getting on a bit the idea of all this technology frightens me a bit but you make it look quite easy. I've missed teaching my puppyls as I have had to shield so have been thinking about getting in touch with them. So you've inspired me to have a go.
Thank you, Felicity
Glad it was helpful!
Very good, thank you so much. I started today my online lessons and this tutorial has been extremely helpful!
Good luck with everything.
Great job! It helped a lot.
Thank you! Looking forward to doing some dummy runs!
Ali, this is so fantastic, thank you, thank you xx
Thanks Naomi. Take care.
Thank you! I successfully moved my teaching business online with 33 students. It’s been a lot of work, but still very worth it!!
Brilliant! Glad it helped.
Perfect! Thank you so much!
Great advice Alistair - really liked the iPad app
Thank for the very informative info! I'm just learning this stuff! Very good!
My pleasure!
Thanks for sharing such wonderful tips for online lessons. Wish u all goodluck in this tough period !
You too.
Excellent video! Thanks so much for sharing with us.
Thanks Guy
Thank you, so clear!☺️🙏🏽
Thanks
Very well explained - thank you! Will put it into practice tomorrow! :)
Best of luck!
An extremely good video - I'm just about to have my first Zoom lesson in about 30 minutes. Many thanks for your hard work and yes point taken - teachers need an income !
Best of luck!
WOW, ALISTAIR! YOU ROCK. SUCH AN EXPERT. THANKS FOR YOUR HELP. BEAUTIFUL. STAY WELL, DEAR!
Thanks Robin
Thank you so much. You are the BEST👍
You're welcome!
Thanks a lot Alistair! It was really very useful watching your video although I already use zoom for giving lessons since the lockdown in March. I just have a short comment for the end of your video when you are saying that in someway is even better for the students having lessons in that way than the "real" ones...I really don't agree because through the screen, no matter how fascinating is, you don't have contact, you can't share feelings and see the whole non-verbal communication of a student and vice versa. On a screen we always see a reflection from bits and bytes and not the real person. Thanks again and all the best for your lessons, which I am sure they are fantastic!
Hi. Thanks very much for watching and your comments.
I think perhaps I wasn't clear. I said 'in some ways' online lessons are better, I certainly didn't mean overall.
For example, in showing something like a close up of a fingering or an embouchure, seeing just that small detail on a screen can actually have a greater impact than it might have in person. I feel the student is drawn to just that small detail they can see on their screen. I also find I'm doing more preparation for online lessons than face to face lessons and that's probably a good thing.
But yes I agree, face to face is best.
Stay safe.
Thanks a loy Alistair! Indeed, now I understand perfectly what you mean...I am sorry I misunderstood that and I totally agree! Keep the great work you are doing and also stay safe! I would love to have a teacher back then in my years of studying as you, so motivated and informed about tech of the time. :) thanks for answering and all the best!
I like the way you worked "the riff" in at 11:00
Thanks Alistair, was very informative for me as a Teacher. Great Video.
Thanks for the great lesson on zoom. I will try the settings today.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you Alistair. Really helpful info, clear and concise presentation. Huge revelation for me that I can share the iPad screen! Stay well.
Many thanks. You too.
Thank you for the clarity of your explanations. I'm gonna try this with voice lessons, but realize that because of delay I will have to create a warm up track. Here I go...
Best of luck!
Nicely done. Thanks for clear presentation - very helpful.
You're very welcome!
Thank you for the valuable lesson!
Glad it was helpful!
Dear Ali, its awesome video. I m happy watching ur 2 initial video & got my reply of delay btwn me & my student while teaching her ONLINE karaoke lessons. Thanks. I have subscribed ur channel.
It's my pleasure
Thanks! Really useful.
Thanks a lot Alistair!! Very helpful information for the Online Teaching Newbie :)
Thanks and good luck with your teaching.
Thanks for sharing. I just started to work on the online lesson with student and I am going to use webcam with Zoom to give them better view on piano.
Lovely and very informative video. Many thanks
This video is EXACTLY what I needed. Thanks so much. My plan will be to record lessons and then send them out on a mass scale..(I'm a school music teacher) May I ask you an occasional question as I proceed?? If not, I understand.. lol this is SUCH a new thing... Just learning how to talk into a camera without flubbing up is a huge curve!!
Great info, thank you. What cable do you use for your camera to connect rather than an ipad etc, please?
Thanks! Very helpful.
You're welcome!
Thanks for sharing Alistair!!
Thank you
So many good ideas!
Many thanks.
Thanks for the great video. I can tell you're a great teacher.
I appreciate that!
thankyou so much! this is very helpful. stay safe and healthy! :)
Many thanks.
Thank you very much Alistair for the clear and precise manner you presented this information about using zoom.
A question: Can a screen from an android phone such as a Huawaei nova 2i be shared in zoom?
Thank you again.
Regards,
George Karklins
New Zealand
I've been a piano teacher for twenty-five years and I'm new to this having always been in the same room as a pupil while I teach!! Never used Zoom or Skype or Facetime to even wish someone a happy birthday never mind provide a half hour piano lesson. So please bear with me.
I've downloaded the app (great video btw). And brought up my ugly mug on screen. This morning I've been trying to set-up my iPad at an angle and position to provide a view of myself demonstrating at the piano. More importantly I hope to advise my pupil to position it similarly so I can see the same view of them while they are playing. So I'm aiming for a view which matches where my head would be if I was sitting watching a pupil play.
Before I even get that far though I note that if I show the screen view of myself on my iPad (as you have done at the 11:00 mark) everything is BACK TO FRONT....the high register is down the piano and my hands travel from right to left to get up there!! If I switch camera then the view is 'normal' but of course I can't see the screen as it's facing the other way. I note that in your own demonstration that you have the screen of the iPad facing you. Is that how you would have it during a lesson....so presumably things are back to front for the viewer? Please don't take this as criticism but I also while you're playing clarinet doesn't appear to have you, the clarinet or the music in shot!!
What do you suggest? I can't help but be a bit concerned about this. Already despite the clever technology I'm having doubts and I haven't even said 'hello' to any of my pupils yet!!
Hi. I believe there is a setting to change the video round if you want to but, as far as I know the video will appear the right way round for your student anyway. In my video I was playing the saxophone and really just wanted to demonstrate the concept. I realised it probably didn't appear all that clear. Sorry.
Great video Alistair, thank you! Today I tried setting up my ipad camera for the screen share option to give a different angle but the lag was at least 15 seconds so not useful at all! Any way to cut down the lag that you know of? Thanks!
Alistair, thank you!
Great video .. very useful and helpful tips. Thank you !
My pleasure!
Hi Ali, really useful, thanks. Genius idea about using the iPad as a 2nd cabers. Clare-Louise x
Thank you!
It is very helpful.
Thank you!!!!!
Great professional tutorial,really helpful .Thank you!
Many thanks
@@isax.academy 🤗🙏Good luck and stay safe and positive! I am music teacher too and I think that we need to support each other in these tough for everyone times!Take care!
Thank you Sir!
You are welcome!
Superb as ever!
Thanks David.
I've had my first 'dress rehearsal' with a piano pupil tonight and we explored the "original sound on/original sound off" settings.
We found that the piano of course sounds better with the original sound turned ON ie. enabled....ie. bypassing all Zoom's filtering....BUT when we started talking during that setting it wasn't as good, in fact it was more awkward (echoing, cutting out, artefacts) than when the original sound was OFF.
What we don't want to do is toggle on (play), toggle off (talk) toggle on (play), that would be a drag....so as it's more important in my view to have smoother speech and communication between myself and a remote pupil especially when we have to be even more concise/precise in these circumstances, surmised that maybe ultimately it was best to make do with the affected piano sound and keep the original sound OFF ie. disabled.
Am I the only teacher in the world considering this alternative?? I feel like a maverick!!!
Hi. My experience is this varies between pupils and the set up they use/internet connection. As I understand it Zoom actually doesn't use its highest audio setting until you have selected 'share screen' and ticked the box that says 'share computer sound' . You have to do this for each meeting. Either way I think we have to make some compromises. At least we have a way to continue teaching.
Thank you! this is wonderfully clear information. I have a question - How do I get a grand staff to show up in the share screen/whiteboard? Wunderkeys and Supersonics have released one to download to zoom, but not sure how to get it there.
Yes would like to know this also!!!!
Thank you so much, so very helpful.. Heavenly Sounds Piano and Voice Studio
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for your tutorial! Very informative! What kind of microphones do you use?
Its a Rode NT2000
Alistair Parnell thanks for such information! Was really helpful. I am considering buying iPad this week. What have you sold microphone problem during lessons? I mean, do you use external mic, or just internal iPad's one ? Thanks for advice, Greetings from PL
I use a Mac laptop for my own teaching with an external mic. The best mic I have tried for an iPad is the Shure MV88. It seems to work well and very easy to use.
very pleasant explanation Alistair
Thanks
Thanks for this wonderful tutorial. I love the idea of using two devices. I tried creating a separate account with a different email address and somehow it knew it was me and wouldn’t allow me to use two devices per its user agreements. Would love to know how you did this. Thanks!
Could you please talk in more detail about your overhead camera sir? Where to buy, how to set up, and pros and cons please. Thank you so much in advance!
It’s just a regular USB webcam that connects to my computer. There are lots on the market. I use a desk arm that overhangs my keyboard pointing directly down.
The Thank you very much, Mr.Parnell ! P.S. The pug !!! :-)
Well done 👍
Thanks Paul.
Bravo, Alistair!
Many thanks Malcolm.
Appreciate your video! What prerequisites are you using for your students.. i.e., they need to have have laptop? Tablet? where to put their camera or tablet.. Sometimes that can be a little difficult. I have two cameras for keyboard. One for the keys and one for me so they can hear... and watch. Thanks again for this video.
My hope is that most students will use a laptop or a tablet. Phones are ok but a bit too small if I want to display a keyboard or music.
Amazon do some great stands for devices which allow you to safely hold and angle the device.
When I share my iPad (it asks me to mirror) it shows up fairly small on my laptop screen. Is there a way to make it appear bigger? Also, I have found that the sound coming from the student is better if they use a headset or earbuds with a mic. Gets the mic closer to the piano.