Zoom lessons and stuff

[flaviomatani]

Finished my last lesson for the day, a Zoom one. I suppose I have developed quite an elaborate set up for my remote lessons. I'm using a Mac Studio with two screens -on the left one I run the Zoom session, on the right one .pdfs of the music we are working on (this is easier on my eyes than keeping the music on the stand, which I also do in some cases). The webcam is an iPhone Xr which gives me a much better picture than the webcams I had been using. The microphone is a Blue Yeti USB cardioid/bidirectional mic -not anything top of the range but much better than what is built into the computers or the cams. I also keep the laptop on a stand -I use this to type a log of the lessons with the exercises and pieces and comments on what we are working on (and where we are in relation to payment), same as I used to do on pupils' notebooks but nowadays don't, and email a copy of the one for the current lesson to the pupil -this allows me to see a copy of those notes that I can review or refer back to.

I normally keep at hand a classical guitar, an Alhambra mid range that by now looks so battered, poor thing. And an Epiphone Les Paul running through a Marshall Valvestate amp.

Probably over the top. What you need for a guitar lesson really is two chars, two guitars, one music stand. But my setup works for me and, it would seem, for my remote pupils.