1. Using Youtube In
Teaching Piano Accompaniment
Goran Brkovic
Piano Teacher
High School of Music “Vojislav-Lale Stefanovic”
Uzice, Serbia
@gbrkovic
September 29, 2012

2. The main problem in teaching
piano accompaniment
• The main goal - to develop adaptability
• The main problem - how to achieve it efficiently
• Solo piano vs. piano accompaniment
• What's easier?
• What's more complex?

3. The old way we used to teach it
and the problems it involved
The old fashioned piano accompaniment class:
• one piano student plays imitating the soloist, the other
piano students plays along piano accompany part
• no adaptation to the real soloist
Limited usability
- no preparation for the real public performance

4. The new way: how technology can
help teachers and students
Increased class usability:
- accompanying several performances from Youtube
- use each YT recording only once
- preparation for the public performance
Developing:
- listening skills
- adaptability

5. Teacher's preparation for the lesson
• choosing the pieces
• searching YT for useful performances
• saving the links, making notes and reflections about
students' achievements
• allowing some time for students to read and learn the
pieces

6. Lesson Goals & Timing
Lesson goals:
- learning to catch the agogics on the fly
- developing listening to changes of the harmonies and dynamic expressiveness
Lesson duration:
- 45 minutes, two students, 3 x 15 minutes
1) warming up - 15 minutes
2) one student accompanying YT video recording - 15 minutes
3) the other student accompanying YT video - 15 minutes

7. Additional informations:
You can see additional info at my blog at:
http://bit.ly/J80sjm

8. Using Youtube In
Teaching Piano Accompaniment
Goran Brkovic
Piano Teacher
Music School “Vojislav-Lale Stefanovic”
Uzice, Serbia
@gbrkovic
September 29, 2012