Downloading videos from YouTube

Too many reasons to count. I just haven’t had the chance to jot them down.

start with Google ads interrupting videos at the worst times.

then consider learning to play songs by watching the videos. I’ve found no platform that lets you pay and play and loop videos. This also is true for teaching students.

This famous video is left by John Tesh— very entertaining to see how his composition process works. Apparently it’s deliberately free to all. About 2 1/2 minutes in, you see a violinist harmonize with the electric guitarist. It’s fun to see two wildly different instruments play the same notes in the same measures. I point that out to music students to get them excited. There’s no reason you couldn’t do the same measures with a different instrument. An organ! A xylophone! An oboe! A tuba! Or combine two of those in a duet! Doesn’t that sound like a way to have fun?

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