TO video

[chuan888]

I've finally found the time to rewrite my scales section and add a video for comparing TO and TU. Go to

https://members.aol.com/chang8828/contents.htm

scroll down to topic III.5.b and click on "video".  This video is in MP4 format. I'm having no luck -- when I use a link such as this on my site, I get only garbage.  If I open a video software such as Quicktime and type in the URL, the video plays, so it is there. You can also go to III.5 and click on the "scales" topic and get the entire section.  Then scroll down to section 5b, where you will find the links to MP4 and WMV formats of the same video -- could you try them and let me know if any of them work.  If not, can you tell me what I am doing wrong?

[allthumbs]

Here is an easy way to open the file.

1.  Right click on this URL  https://members.aol.com/chang8825/TOscale.mp4 , then
     click on "Copy Shortcut"

2.  Open QuickTime Player, click on "File", click on "Open URL in New Player"

3.  An "Open URL" screen will come up.

4.  Right click on the space and click paste and OK and the file will open and
     be ready  to play.

The file will not play in Windows Media Player, but will play in Real Player.


Cheers

allthumbs

[allthumbs]

I just looked at my last post.

From what I saw in the box of the format I had typed, to what appeared sure wasn't WYSIWYG

[chuan888]

Thx! that is essentially what I have done.  I have changed it from a link to instructions basically like what you wrote.  That is, right now anyway, the simplest solution.  If anyone knows how to link to video in HTML, please let me know (if it is simple enough); the instructions I have seen are quite complex and will take a while for me to master.

Now, you will not find those links I described in the first post.  If anyone has successes/failures or comments, let me know.

[Souza]

Thx! that is essentially what I have done.  I have changed it from a link to instructions basically like what you wrote.  That is, right now anyway, the simplest solution.  If anyone knows how to link to video in HTML, please let me know (if it is simple enough); the instructions I have seen are quite complex and will take a while for me to master.

Now, you will not find those links I described in the first post.  If anyone has successes/failures or comments, let me know.

Unfortunately I dont't know how link video to html.

In my computer, https://members.aol.com/chang8825/TOscale.mp4  doesn't work with MediaPlayer or QuickTime.

But it works very well typing   https://members.aol.com/chang8825/TOscale.wmv in file/open url of MediaPlayer.  This same url does not work with QuickTime.   

Very nice to see the difference between TO and TU. 

Please, if possible, give us visualizations of TO/TU in arpeggios and scales, slow and fast motions.

These teachings are helping me a lot.


Without words for express gratitude.

Thanks!!

{}s Pedro

[leahcim]

Scroll down to topic III.5.b and click on "video".  This video is in MP4 format. I'm having no luck -- when I use a link such as this on my site, I get only garbage.  If I open a video software such as Quicktime and type in the URL, the video plays, so it is there.

Do you have access to change the server config? Because that's where you'll have to change it I suspect.

Basically when you click a link, the http server sends a mime header along with other headers  that tells the browser what type of file it is, whether to cache the file, and the errors. i.e the http stuff rather than html stuff. For most files with html in them, for example, it's sending text/html. For a jpg on your site it'll send image/jpg.

That is largely what governs what the browser thinks it is - although what the browser does when you click a link is also affected by configuration [i.e what file associations you have set up or what programs you've associated with them]

There's also the security stuff too that affects it these days, so it pops up warnings and whatnot if you click a link.

But, let's have a look :- Your video is sending these headers :-

#wget -S https://members.aol.com/chang8825/TOscale.mp4
--07:20:26--  https://members.aol.com/chang8825/TOscale.mp4
           => `TOscale.mp4'
Resolving members.aol.com... 205.188.226.153, 205.188.226.185, 205.188.226.248
Connecting to members.aol.com[205.188.226.153]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
 1 HTTP/1.0 200 OK
 2 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:20:26 GMT
 3 Content-Type: text/html
 4 Cache-Control: private
 5 Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Resin/2.0.5

So as you can see, line 3 is saying it's a html file, which it isn't, it should be video/mpeg or something similar but that is why our browsers are displaying the file and not opening windows media player or prompting to save it etc.

But, the place to change that is either in .htaccess in your directory or in the apache config.

Wherer you change it depends what kind of access you have to the server or whether you only want some settings for certain directories.

Some things can't be changed in .htaccess either [what you can change is partly what apache lets you change and partly what the server admin has permitted you to] - in which case you might need to talk to the server admin.

OTOH, the server may be configured to send video/whatever for certain file extensions already, so you might only need to rename the file [e.g, I note the server sends video/mpeg for .mpeg and .mpg and video/x-msvideo for .avi, so it has some already - in fact, the short answer is probably rename the file to .mpg, that should work]

If you need more specifics - like add "foo" in the file, I'll dig out some better instructions, unless someone beats me too it.

[allthumbs]

I've finally found the time to rewrite my scales section and add a video for comparing TO and TU.

BTW, this is a brilliant idea to illustrate the points in your treatise. I haven't read your entire tome yet, but what I have read is extremely helpful.

I just want to commend you and say "well done".

It could well be the "War and Peace" of piano pedagogy!


Cheers

allthumbs

[ccr]

Hello CC,

  I downloaded your book some months ago and have find it very useful!! So thank you very much for taking the time to write it.

  As for the video link question, as leahcim said it is a server problem because they (aol) have wrong mime types for the mp4 and wmv extensions. Having said that, as aol are using apache, you can take advantage of it's default configuration which maps .mpg and .avi extensions a video types.  So my suggestion is to rename to .avi the windows media file video and to .mpg the mp4 one.

  In a default apache instalation .mpg is associated to "video/mpeg" mime type and avi to "video/x-msvideo" and it should work as long as they haven't changed this defaults.

  Best regards

Carlos CR

[steve jones]

chuan,

They say a picture tells a thousand words. Well, this video tells about a million! Bravo 

All the things I didnt quite 'get' about TO have been made perfectly clear, thanks to the awesome little clip. For example, the angle of the hand to allow the thumb to come down behind 3. I had previously been relying completely on the shift, and my scale had been uneven as a result.

I cant thank you enough, excellent stuff!

Any chance we could have one for arpeggio's now? 

Kindest regards,

Steve Jones


(Btw, for those having trouble downloading, I simply copied the url into Download Accelerator then opened it in Realplayer. No problems what so ever)

[xvimbi]

chuan,

They say a picture tells a thousand words. Well, this video tells about a million! Bravo 

All the things I didnt quite 'get' about TO have been made perfectly clear, thanks to the awesome little clip. For example, the angle of the hand to allow the thumb to come down behind 3. I had previously been relying completely on the shift, and my scale had been uneven as a result.

Yes, indeed. Many people think that the fingers (and thus the hand) should always be parallel to the keys. However, this does not have to be the case at all, and TO is a perfect example for that (it took me some time to realize this ). It is often much more efficient to have the hand at an angle of 45 degrees or even more. However, the fingers should be collinear with the forearm, which in turn means that, when playing in the middle and the extreme regions of the keyboard, the hand often is not parallel, and one should not even try to force the hand to be parallel.

Having said that, at a certain speed, it is perfectly OK to simply shift the hand in TO playing. No need to pivot the hand around finger 3 or 4. That would first be too slow, and nobody is going to notice any gaps anyway at hight speed.

[CC]

Is there a difference between Real player and RealOne player?  Neither one works on my RealOne player.

[journeyyourmind]

Can someone explain exactly what I'm seeing?


EDIT: never mind i get it now 

[bearzinthehood]

I watched the video, I have a question.  I don't think I bend my thumb at all for scales, either with TU or with TO.  Do I need to be bending the thumb for TU?  It seems like a source of tension?

[xvimbi]

I watched the video, I have a question.  I don't think I bend my thumb at all for scales, either with TU or with TO.  Do I need to be bending the thumb for TU?  It seems like a source of tension?

If you mean bending at the last joint, then you are completely right. It is already awkward to bend the thumb at the knuckle joint. Bending at the last joint in addition to that is even more awkward. But not only that, you will also end up with the tip of your thumb at a rather strange angle on the key. I think, bending at the last joint is only useful for playing chords or other figures, in order to make the tip of the thumb collinear with the key, that is in situations where the thumb moves away from the hand, not under the palm.

[bearzinthehood]

If you mean bending at the last joint, then you are completely right. It is already awkward to bend the thumb at the knuckle joint. Bending at the last joint in addition to that is even more awkward. But not only that, you will also end up with the tip of your thumb at a rather strange angle on the key. I think, bending at the last joint is only useful for playing chords or other figures, in order to make the tip of the thumb collinear with the key, that is in situations where the thumb moves away from the hand, not under the palm.

Yeah, last joint is what I meant.  Thanks.