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Dec 16, 2020
2 min

Update on my piano teaching setup

At the start of the pandemic, I looked at creating a good quality setup for teaching piano online. Nine months later, I've experimented w...

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SteveB

Aug 3, 2020
2 min

The Rise of Jamulus

In these COVID times, musicians are searching for a way to meet up and play, or even just rehearse! The problem with well-used systems li...

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How to achieve high quality stereo audio in Zoom

SteveB

May 31, 2020
1 min

How to achieve high quality stereo audio in Zoom

Whereas Zoom (and Skype) are designed for fairly low quality audio, i.e. speech, many teachers are now looking to see how they can reprod...

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Great website for tips on music teaching, virtual choirs etc

SteveB

May 15, 2020
1 min

Great website for tips on music teaching, virtual choirs etc

Music Repo in the UK have been publishing useful videos for a while, but I recently noticed an overview that pulls together the main hardw...

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SteveB

May 8, 2020
1 min

Lights, Camera, Action

Good lighting is very important for online tutorials, and it's probably the last thing people think about! I keep coming back to this vid...

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Remote interview recording with Cleanfeed

SteveB

Apr 26, 2020
1 min

Remote interview recording with Cleanfeed

I've come across a browser-based app that is used in the broadcasting industry to record high quality interviews. Very useful for podcast...

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SteveB

Apr 18, 2020
1 min

Solved? Streaming high quality audio

The problem with the very popular Zoom and Skype platforms is that they are designed for speech rather than music. They compress and filt...

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SteveB

Apr 17, 2020
1 min

Using OBS to combine video sources

OBS comes up in conversations about streaming very frequently - it's open source software that allows you to stream to various different ...

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SteveB

Apr 12, 2020
1 min

A simple, recorded YouTube tutorial

I decided to record a simple video using the Epocam app for upload to YouTube. The audio for the video below was taken direct in stereo f...

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How to use an iPhone as a 2nd camera in Zoom

SteveB

Apr 4, 2020
1 min

How to use an iPhone as a 2nd camera in Zoom

Here's a brief video tour ( 2 minutes 10 secs) of my basic camera setup for online piano lessons: It features the EpocCam app. UPDATE (19...

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Don't make it more complicated than it needs to be!

SteveB

Apr 1, 2020
1 min

Don't make it more complicated than it needs to be!

A great video explaining the basics of how to setup phones etc for piano teaching!

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SteveB

Mar 31, 2020
1 min

The first online piano lesson

I decided to try an online lesson with a student who I see face-to-face once a week. She's learning a range of contemporary piano styles ...

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SteveB

Mar 29, 2020
1 min

Who's Zoomin' Who?

Most musicians seem to use Zoom, and these seem to be the main reasons: Better sound quality Zoom allows you to "enable original sound" w...

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SteveB

Mar 27, 2020
1 min

Chordie App

I'm really impressed by the Chordie App that takes a MIDI signal from a keyboard and in real-time displays the notes played via: stave vi...

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SteveB

Mar 27, 2020
1 min

What do I want?

These are my initial thoughts about what I'd like: Good quality audio, stereo if possible Two camera angles: a general view + overhead sh...

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SteveB

Mar 24, 2020
1 min

First steps

I'm a piano player and teacher and have started to investigate how to move piano lessons online. Where do I start? Will it work? I'd prev...

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