Virtual isn’t just a reality of the Covid-19 pandemic, but they have been a way of life for musicians and music students across the globe for quite some time. Professional musicians, songwriters, and producers have been collaborating via virtual means and even sending recordings back and forth for years now. The tools we have today make it so much easier too, I remember when I was preparing for Berklee and my soon to be roommate and I were writing music back and forth through snail mail!

Music students, in a social media driven world and an ever diversifying music scene, virtual lessons in many ways begin training you now for the future. This is the way of life now for sure, but audition by video, songwriting and recording via collaboration (recording your part at home and sending it to a partner) have been the norm for quite some time, see one music professor’s post about just that below.

We are using technology as an opportunity to enhance music study and focus on different and fun approaches as well, including videos many of us are sending out to students so they can warm up and practice with us via video throughout the week, different kinds of ear training exercises, and evcen fun collaboration work. Working the latency puzzle can be fun too.