Cannot say enough about how much I respect what you two are doing. I am barely able to take small bites from the banquet table now, but I know this will all be there when I can. And I CAN'T WAIT. Your courses are phenomenally good. Small bites from one of the Open Studio courses are what's keeping me afloat musically. Of course, it takes me a week to digest what I might initially imagine I should work through in a single practice session, because the content is so rich and well laid out. I am going to dip into the shorts (ready to hit "pause"!) as it looks like another lifeline you guys are throwing out to the hopeful. Thanks so much for the incredible amount of generosity and time-consuming work you put into this calling. It means more than you can know!

Y'all's knowledge, passion, skill and sense of humor keeps me coming back to to these vids - Thanks so much as always!

They're back. Yes.

Video speed controller on chrome will allow you to speed up or slow down any video from 0.07x to 16x.

That was an interesting video! I’m a bassist (I think Adam and I were at New School Jazz at the same time) and an instructional designer and I think these types of videos a lot. There are two main approaches to short videos which you guys demonstrated: 1) pulling and editing 60 seconds from a longer video, or “short tutorials as ads”, and 2) designing a lesson specifically for the short format. In either, video creators should be aware of the learner’s “cognitive load,” or how much information a person can take in at once, both visually and aurally. Because the lesson format is so short, there’s a tendency to pack too much information into the video. Nahre Sol’s video is a good example of a micro lesson with a low cognitive load which allows someone to store the packaged information in their short-term memory, which can be recalled for practicing, and then stored in long-term memory after enough practice. I think a better question than “Can someone learn this big thing in 60 seconds?” is “What can someone be expected to do after watching a 60-second video repeatedly?” It becomes super important to nail down the single learning objective of the short video. It’s cool to see how you guys observe and assess others’ videos. One point of clarification: “Pedagogy” is about teaching children, “Andragogy” is teaching adults, and I think this topic is simply “60 Second Instruction.” I’m looking for to watching your short tutorials - I’m sure they’ll be awesome.

Now that I've finally finished my first 60 seconds of practice (I split it into six 10 second sessions), I'm confident that the answer is no: I can't learn jazz piano in 60 seconds. I agree that you can teach practical lessons in 60 second chunks. The information given is dense enough that I have to stop it repeatedly. And on YT, you can tap the gear icon, and tap "playback speed" and then select from 25, 50 or 75% for it (without changing the pitch!) If you have an electronic keyboard, check to see if it has an audio input, either via your telephone's headphones output (what I use) or USB audio. I usually blend all my audio in a Zoom Livetrak mixer/recorded, but I also have keyboards that can input my phone's headphones cable (with a quarter inch adapter) and play it as a backing track in the keyboard's outputs.

The challenge with tutorials in the "shorts" format is not so much whether you can create something engaging and useful within that time frame - after all the examples clearly show that this is possible. The issue is that the way we consume shorts tends to be in a binge format which most platforms encourage. When we continuously scroll through content we are devoting less intellectual energy to any one piece of media. In the best case, the short sparks genuine curiosity in a topic that then leads the viewer to peruse a more thorough explanation of the concept in a longer video, course etc. (like a super effective advertisement). But this isn't guaranteed. You want to avoid a scenario where the short is simply a mental "substitute" for progress, similar to how the 60 second cooking video phase several years ago would make everyone's mouths water, but in the end most people were never going to try the recipe(s) themselves.

I think you can call it ear candy or jazz piano ear candy.

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