Valery,
My take on YouTube is that you take your chances when you post a video.
Its an open forum and anyone can make suggestions whether they are constructive
or not. (Yes, there are some jerks on there. Hopefully the folks on this list
will be more respectful and helpful.) For someone posting videos who is not
interested in anyone else's thoughts, the comment feature can be easily
disabled. If one is only interested in hearing adoring remarks, that sort of
service is rarely free. ;-)
Years ago I had a roommate who took a job as an art teacher at a high
school. As part of the job, he was required to coach the track team. Since he
had never previously participated in any track and field events in his life, I
asked how on earth the school thought he was remotely qualified to do this.
(The real answer is that they didn't care whether he was qualified or not.
They were getting someone to fill two positions for one salary.) My friend's
answer was, "No matter how good or bad I am at actually doing the stuff, I can
offer the kids one thing they can never do for themselves. I can watch they're
doing without being them." Whatever he did must have worked. He went to a
couple of coaching clinics and watched some coaching videos. He then went on
to lead his team to the state championship - a feat the crew had never achieved
before - and do it again twice more in the five years he worked there.
I've taken that as a great example for my own teaching. Even more
importantly, I've taken it to heart in my own continuing role as a perpetual
student.
Chris
--- On Sun, 1/10/10, Sauvage Valéry <sauvag...@orange.fr> wrote:
> From: Sauvage Valéry <sauvag...@orange.fr>
> Subject: [LUTE] constructive critical commentary
> To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
> Date: Sunday, January 10, 2010, 9:47 PM
>
> About constructive critical commentary, as a "multi"
> Youtube recording
> luteninst, I know very well what's wrong in my videos, I'm
> working very hard
> to try do do better, and of course I accept criticism but
> very often I know
> the "could be better" points before being told by someone,
> and what I would
> need in fact is a (or many...) good master class(es) with
> some of the lute
> gods as Paul, Bob, Ron or Nigel (sorry I miss some other
> names but... List
> is long)
> So I don't wait any technical comment, but I'm always glad
> to answer to kind
> words people would spend time to write, even if it is not
> "useful" for my
> lute technic... And I'm afraid critical commentary
> sometimes posted are
> often not constructive, but acerb (then I'm sorry but I
> remove them at once
> ! Lol)
> So I'm not sure Youtube is the place for constructive
> commentary, but more
> for sharing music we love without pretention (I hope for my
> sake)
> I just got today a beautiful theorbo made by Didier Jarny,
> a small
> instrument for solo music (70cm/120cm) so now working on
> some Kapsberger's
> Canarios, and it is great fun !
> V.
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu
> [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu]
> De la part
> de nedma...@aol.com
> Envoyé : dimanche 10 janvier 2010 22:55
> À : franz.mechs...@northumbria.ac.uk;
> edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp;
> kidneykut...@gmail.com;
> lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
> Objet : [LUTE] Re: Conradi Sonata
>
>
> To repeat my comments to the group (since
> I replied privately
> inadvertently), I thought the music quite
> lovely, and very nicely
> played. Franz's point concerning
> the absence of constructive
> critical commentary may be
> pertinent. Since I'm working on Renaissance
> lute only, and am not familiar with
> Baroque lute literature or
> technique, I'll leave it to other Baroque
> players to consider Franz's
> point.
>
>
>
> Ned
>
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