I frequently turn to YouTube to help me learn unfamiliar church music repertoire; even if I already have a recording, it’s often easier to reach for an online performance than trying to locate it on a CD or cassette tape. <\/p>\n
It’s quite a hit and miss exercise, however. If I haven’t got the music yet, the best find is one of those videos where the score scrolls past as the music plays. Failing that, a well-made recording of a quality performance can be very useful. While these may be available for some really obscure pieces, there are other standard repertoire ones which aren’t represented on YouTube at all.<\/p>\n
Then again, some YouTube videos can be less than helpful. There’s no shortage of badly recorded, out of tune performances which I will not make it to the end of. My personal nadir was the clip of a jokey encore piece I sang recently. The only performance on YouTube was a rather heavy-handed one by a German choir, in a mixture of German and strongly accented English, which bore out all the stereotypes of Germans not understanding our humour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I frequently turn to YouTube to help me learn unfamiliar church music repertoire; even if I already have a recording, it’s often easier to reach for an online performance than trying to locate it on a CD or cassette tape. … Continue reading