A Lonely Night --- Composer Nguyen Manh Cuong Violin Pham chi Dzung piano Nguyen Le Ky

A Lonely Night

A Lonely Night by Cuong Manh Nguyen

Autumn In Memory -- Composed by Cuong Manh Nguyen

A Special Memory song -- Etude number 1(composed by Cuong Manh Nguyen)

Tristesse - Chopin -- Nguyen manh Cuong(Violin)

Serenade(Schubert) -- NGUYỄN MẠNH CƯỜNG(violin)

Using Blogs and Social Networking sites to help students improve learning and playing music

This topic was first posted at the following link:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7846.using-blog-and-social-networking-site-for-helping-people-to-improve-learning-and-playing-music.aspx

I am currently developing some new techniques to help students improve learning and playing music. I have played and taught violin in the past and also have been working as a software developer . I was using some old method to teach my students but it still did not achieve great results. Now I'm experimenting a new way to learn and improve the abilities of learning instruments like violin or piano. I also want to use music with new technology to reduce (if I can prove....) the stress level that every person has to deal and cope with every day.
I developed some of my own exercises to practice bow, finger movements, and vibration techniques. Everybody learns new subjects in different ways. If the student can see how they play and with the suggestions of the teacher throughout the video, they can improve their techniques in a short period of time. The students should also provide different styles of learning such as one by one, distant learning, and group learning so they can choose the ways they like.

By watching the video, students will not need to come to see their teachers and they can also learn how to play a new song by watching their teacher play the song on the video. Violin instructors can also send the instructions or music sheets using a separate email or IM to discuss issues or questions related to the new assignment with each student. With the online teaching,
one student can learn from many instructors and vice versa.

For some students, it takes a lot of time to go from their houses to the music teacher's house or music school. Blogs and social networking sites are there to help people improve in learning and playing music by cutting down the cost to learn music lessons by saving time and gas.
Music students can learn, practice, and send the the video to show the teacher how they play a new song for comments. Teachers can help the students improve the technique by sending back a video that demonstrates how the student should play.Teachers can also integrate some software to analyze their students' style to help them improve their techniques. Students in the same level can be grouped in the same group so they can share their own learning experience with others.
They also can learn at their own pace.

Any musician can start with the online teaching by setting up the teaching environment with the following requirements:

1) A PC/Laptop
2) Web cam
3) Internet connection(DSL or Cable Modem)
4) An YouTube/Facebook account
5) Email Account
6) Skype for video conferencing

and his or her students should have the same environment so they both can discuss, exchange and upload their videos.

In this article, I will not discuss how the teacher gets paid or the payment process in the E -learning.