New DVDs from the Goldandsky Institute

[abell88]

The Golandsky Institute is offering new DVDs on "The Art of Rhythmic Expression".  Anybody have any thoughts/experience with this?

https://www.golandskyinstitute.org/dvd1.html

[leahcim]

The Golandsky Institute is offering new DVDs on "The Art of Rhythmic Expression".  Anybody have any thoughts/experience with this?

https://www.golandskyinstitute.org/dvd1.html

a one, a two, a three and four, b'dum tish

No experience, but thought-wise, I think the Taubman stuff is OTT price wise and this seems the same. The DVD format seems welcome though [I've only ever purchased one instruction video, for guitar, and because you spend so much time rewinding / replaying, it quickly ruins the tape ime - thus making the taub videos even less value imo, but that doesn't apply to this]

But I don't think there's anything there that is unknown elsewhere and at the end of the day it's a DVD, possible of a master class, but it isn't one. DVDs with multi-million pound development budgets sell for less - and the ones that have a smaller audience tend to cost less than that - so I don't what their thinking is.

I'd see this kind of thing as supplemental to other info / personal teaching etc - e.g if a teacher was showing me the same things, I could reinforce midweek by watching - if it was reasonably priced that would be ideal. But a video by itself, the next question would be "So where's the teacher?" which, afaict, is limited to the US, especially if you accept their prices based on some unique or unknown aspect of the contents.

OTOH, if you think that the information is widely known then why pay a premium for a TV programme? You might pay more for one on one teaching or even being there, but I'd say you'll get much better value for money.

[ted]

I don't see how a DVD or a video would be much good for learning rhythm. Besides, the rhythm in most classical music isn't very complicated anyway. I have often wondered why there are not more such films made about matters which could be learned in this way - physical technique and so on - now that would be really useful for people without teachers. Also, the improvisational process would be an excellent subject for a video but, as far as I know, has remained unexplored. I sometimes learn a lot by playing videos of pianists in slow motion, but rhythm ? No, I don't think so.

[rc]

The DVD format seems welcome though [I've only ever purchased one instruction video, for guitar, and because you spend so much time rewinding / replaying, it quickly ruins the tape ime - thus making the taub videos even less value imo, but that doesn't apply to this]

A while back I spoiled myself with a DVD recorder with the intention of recording those music programs that're on at weird times of the day (whenever the landlord can hook me up with the right channels  )... Anyhow, I found a nifty side benefit that you can record VHS to DVD and even put in chapters at the different sections, easy as pie. A good solution if you've got a few bucks lying around. The ones with hard drives are even niftier.

[leahcim]

...you can record VHS to DVD and even put in chapters at the different sections, easy as pie.

Yep, I can today [except for the fact I don't have VCR now] At the time I'd have had to beat philips at their own game, or at least paid the best part of the price of a piano to get the equipment

[nyquist]

The Golandsky Institute is offering new DVDs on "The Art of Rhythmic Expression".  Anybody have any thoughts/experience with this?

https://www.golandskyinstitute.org/dvd1.html

I have watched this set of three DVDs.  They are about music interpretation rather than about technique.  It is the record of a set of lectures Edna Golandsky taught in 2004.  My one sentence description is "how to bring the music alive with rhythmic subtlety".

[abell88]

I have watched this set of three DVDs.  They are about music interpretation rather than about technique.  It is the record of a set of lectures Edna Golandsky taught in 2004.  My one sentence description is "how to bring the music alive with rhythmic subtlety".

Thank you, nyquist. Would you think they were worth the money -- i.e. if you had bought them, would you be likely to watch them multiple times and pick up new things each time? Do you think it would be useful for a student to watch them with their teacher, or to watch them at home, with the teacher suggesting to look for particular things?

[nyquist]

Thank you, nyquist. Would you think they were worth the money -- i.e. if you had bought them, would you be likely to watch them multiple times and pick up new things each time? Do you think it would be useful for a student to watch them with their teacher, or to watch them at home, with the teacher suggesting to look for particular things?

I am not planning to watch them again in the immediate future.  A more advanced pianist might find them more interesting that I find them now.

nyquist