The Musician's Channel: Pro Musicians & Teachers Teach Music

[Mk]

That sounds like a pretty ambitious goal. Get an education in business administration before investing your own money.

I don't think you understand the economics involved in producing broadcast-quality video.

my MBA from Stanford.

Warren, I don't mean to be insulting, but you're being a little bit condescending to a guy that is excited about following through with an idea—we have far to little of those.

Also, W3pcq a good idea to try might be planning on broadcasting the channel online, the economics involved in producing a broadcast-quality video are much better. If you can make a quality teaching video, and get a name out there for actually being good (the odds on quantity are already against you) people would buy it.

 

[scorpa]

Even if you had an internet based plan, you would still need to charge for a subscription in order to make quality material. There is such a mess of information on the net that your site would get lost, and when found people would wonder if it was just some scam or not. To make the internet version work, you would need to heavily advertise on television/magazines etc, just like the TV version.

The pro of the TV version is that marketing would be much easier because you could buy it through DTV or Comcast. That way you gain many customers right off the bat who just check a box, and add it to their bill. I guess it would be possible to have an online version showcasing the same material available on the net on demand or by subscription.

The internet has a ton of free lessons online (mostly guitar) as well as lessons that you can pay for that I am assuming are of better quality. I agree that it would be easy for your site to get lost on the internet, however I just think that TV isn't the best media for music instruction. The idea of paying for lessons on TV doesn't appeal to me because I could not control the speed of the lesson (can't slow down if its going to fast, can't speed it up if the instructor is absolutely beating a point to death). Plus you can't go back and revisit a point you either missed or did not understand, unless you are fortunate enough to have TiVo. I guess it depends on the style of learning, it may be good for the people who prefer to watch it once and then go off on their own and try it by themselves until they can get it right. Depending on the type of shows they may well be interesting to just watch rather than try to learn something from. However I just don't think it would be terribly valuable as learning tool.

 

[W3pcq]

The internet has a ton of free lessons online (mostly guitar) as well as lessons that you can pay for that I am assuming are of better quality. I agree that it would be easy for your site to get lost on the internet, however I just think that TV isn't the best media for music instruction. The idea of paying for lessons on TV doesn't appeal to me because I could not control the speed of the lesson (can't slow down if its going to fast, can't speed it up if the instructor is absolutely beating a point to death). Plus you can't go back and revisit a point you either missed or did not understand, unless you are fortunate enough to have TiVo. I guess it depends on the style of learning, it may be good for the people who prefer to watch it once and then go off on their own and try it by themselves until they can get it right. Depending on the type of shows they may well be interesting to just watch rather than try to learn something from. However I just don't think it would be terribly valuable as learning tool.

That is a good point. I'm not sure if it would be interesting enough to watch as entertainment, and whether it would be constructive enough to watch purely for education. I guess it would have to be sort of a mixture of both which degrades quality on both sides. On the other hand you could have specific shows dealing with different appeals. Certain shows would be just performances by various professional musicians, solos, bands etc. Other shows could be pure basic instruction, some could be interviews and demonstration of advanced techniques.

 

[binzing]

Hell, no need to even pay for it, just make a google pages account and a site, then make videos. Sounds good.