For some time now, we’ve seen how important online platforms are for music lessons. Overnight, plenty of teachers and students began massively using Zoom, Skype, Facetime, and similar platforms. However, we here at Rock Out Loud have designed the Rock Out Loud Live service that focuses strictly on music education.
One might think whether this is necessary. After all, all these great apps are enough for you to have a good lesson experience, right? Well, not exactly. Sure, Zoom has proven to be a great tool even for prestigious universities. However, things can get pretty complicated when it comes to music lessons. First, you need better sound quality; you also need to make up for some of the very valuable experiences that come with “conventional” face-to-face music lessons.
While it might not seem like an important issue, having proper sheet music, tabs, as well as reading material to learn from after lessons is mandatory for a young student to progress. Of course, there are also other things that online lessons lack. But how can you make up for it all? Well, this is where our life-saving new addition to Rock Out Loud Live, called the Concert Mode, comes into play.
What Is Concert Mode?
Sure, just another boring old meaningless addition trying to get more attention from potential users, right? Well, it’s not as nearly as simple as you might think. In simple terms, Concert Mode is a collection of new features that can significantly improve the online lesson experience. It is meant both for teachers and students, and focused entirely on group lessons and recitals. It’s very specific features might seem weird to some. However, each of them is more than useful in these kinds of group sessions.
How to Use the Concert Mode
So let’s walk you through the main steps of how you can use the Concert Mode feature. The first thing that you’ll need to know is how to create a room that engages it.
Next up, you’ll have a room that, at the first glance, looks like your regular lesson session. However, when you send the link to your students or other participants of the group session, they all enter this group lesson muted by default. And this is not an error, but it’s by the design of this feature. You, as the group session admin, will be in complete control of who gets muted and unmuted during the lesson.
And most importantly, individual students, or session participants, won’t be able to unmute themselves, meaning that everything is up to you, the “Conductor” of the session as well as the Concert Mode feature. Basically, you take control over everything.
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Talking about group sessions, when one of the students or participants is performing, it’s best to mute everyone else. After all, you don’t want anyone else’s background noise invading the group session while one of the students is performing. After the performance, you can easily mute the student and give someone else the chance to show off their skills.
Although students don’t have the option to unmute themselves, they are able to communicate with the teacher by using the Hand Raise feature. In case they have any questions, they can simply click on the simple and visible hand icon that’s located at the bottom left corner of the interface. Of course, it’s important to tell the students that they can implement this feature at any time. You can then unmute them when it’s convenient and then you can let them ask what they want.
And there’s also one light-hearted and fun feature called “Confetti.” This allows guests and students to celebrate the individual performance. Once selected, all the participants can see the sprinkles on the screen of their device. Pretty cool way to lift some spirits and break the monotony, right?
Some may ask whether it’s possible to have two or more participants performing at the same time. While this is a great idea to ponder about, things are not exactly as simple as they might seem. The main problem would be the latency issue which is always present when you’re using any kind of video or audio chatting platform on the internet.
Changing the Way We Approach Music Education
With such a new collection of features and innovative additions, you can really stop and what “conventional lessons” actually mean these days. No matter where you are, you’ll be able to have an almost exact experience with the Rock Out Loud Live platform as you would with face-to-face lessons. Sure, “brick and mortar” music schools aren’t going away any time soon, but this is most certainly a tool that can help both music students and music teachers all over the world.
The Concert Mode can almost entirely replace group lessons. It’s the part of RockOutLoudLive’s paid subscription models intended for music schools or larger groups
So aside from focusing on the audio stream quality, Rock Out Loud Live also brings innovation to any type of group lessons or even improvised live performances with an actual active audience. Just imagine – you’ll be able to give your students a virtual stage, ultimately helping them deal with any type of live shows in the future.
Check out Rock Out Loud Live here on the official site.
