Sauvage Valéry wrote:
So I'm not sure Youtube is the place for constructive commentary, but more
for sharing music we love
I've put up some youtube videos. Is it folly, vanity, lack of
self-awareness? Sometimes it's like a goal to aim for - to choose a
piece, practice it, video it, and upload it as a sort of resolution...
and then move on! Sometimes the little video I have uploaded has been an
example of something.
Like Valéry, I know (or think I know) much of what is wrong with my
playing. And - like most players of musical instruments, ever - I'm not
a professional, just an amateur trying to play as well as I can. And so
I know nothing of, nor have any skills at all in the presentation and
stagecraft of music - of communicating to an audience. But youtube
doesn't have an audience in that sense - just people dipping in and out
watching perhaps just a few seconds and then clicking away. And a video
of a farting cat on a unicycle will always get the big hits anyway.
But I do agree with David that people constructive criticism could make
me, and others play better (and perhaps Valéry too?) - and see things in
the music and interpret some things better and offer technical solutions
etc etc (probably quite a lot of etcs). After a very long time I've been
looking at some English lute music and the ornaments and it would be
really interesting to get comments from people who are steeped in all that.
I'm not a fan of ning ("Cuthbert is now friends with Melanie" etc) but I
could see the use of something like a ning site dedicated only to
constructive criticism of performances lute/allied plucked intruments -
where you have to sign up to comment and preferably you sign up on the
understanding that you submit something. And each person would indicate:
beginner, amateur, professional in their performances and in their
comments. Better still would be link from here to somewhere dedicated
to constructive criticism if that is what you actually wanted.
Stuart
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