Great approach to teaching advanced Jazz piano with youtube
Posted by hlynch on October 25, 2007
Multi media overlay in a Jazz piano video makes a fantastic advanced teaching and learning tool! Im something of a jazz piano fan and an amateur player so was impressed to find Doug McKenzies work on Youtube. Throughout Doug’s video the viewer is able to analyse Doug’s jazz approach to the song Some Day My Prince Will Come not only by watching the performance, but by reading the brief , intermittent explanatory script that accompanies the performance onscreen and following along with the onscreen keyboard that is lighting up showing the chords as they are played. It provides a top platform for advanced analysis of the player’s interpretaion and jazz style!!
This could be a useful teaching framework to enable advanced analysis of a complex task…?
October 25th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Hey Helen – this is awesome! I’ve sent it to a few colleagues with particular interests in music education…
October 25th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
[...] colleague Helen Lynch posted a YouTube video on our team blog today, featuring an accomplished Australian jazz pianist and teacher (Doug McKenzie) [...]