Video Integrity

Upon hearing some extremely contentious jazz music instruction, more the necessity of making money as an extinct "jazz artist," as a past college lecturer in the field of jazz studies I must call the bluff. Jazz music instruction while still unique today, because the music is only about a century old, has principles.  Only millennials would say, "Oh jazz is anything."  This merely is a loophole which allows the complex and in depth field of jazz music to disintegrate and cower to the auspices of a recently chosen pop music championed by novices.  Forget intensive music listening.  Forget music history.  Forget intellectual challenging.  Musical talent is for anyone!  It is a grace given by God.  This is why so many winners of both state lotteries and television talent shows become alcoholics, derelicts, or squander their rewards.  Singing a few songs on television in no way, shape, or form can possible prepare a musician to be a professional.  It does not matter, because there are few jobs for professional musicians left.  The majority of them are in orchestras and churches and have nothing to do with jazz or popular music.  Television talent shows like YouTube videos are welcome shortcuts, immediate gratifications, but with dire educational circumstances.  Allowing users to post artistic material, or rather material of the arts, briefly was rewarding.  Often consumers can offer integral content by nature of being cherished.  On the contrary try looking for an instrument review on YouTube.  There are a number of factory representatives doing presentations selling instruments.  Nothing says they are artistic, enlightening, or enigmatic.  Most are torture.  The playing is poor, the sounds demonstrated are mediocre, and the content is shallow.  I have seen a few quality instructional videos.  Mostly they are my own.  Once I was a college instructor.  A more appealing title is adjunct professor, but let's be honest.  Instructor is more appropriate.  You get no benefits, no tenure, and no poo nanny.  I take that back.  Being an adjunct professor does merit some attention from the opposite sex, just like being a rock star once did.  That is before the world became LGBT, and the heterosexual dynamic waned.  The world never has recovered.  I have posted instructional videos, because it is important to me to remember useful musical information (and otherwise), and because I don't want to forget the process of both learning and teaching.  I have been asked why I post music videos.  This is the reason.  When I design and implement a home MIDI/Recording studio, it is complex and difficult to remember.  Talking about the process is helpful, and sharing it with others is considerate.  Why should I want to hoard the information for myself, seeing as popular music today and its so-called talent is bird seed?  It is not tangible enough to sit on the shelf without a corporate-manufactured plastic sleeve.  I strive for musical excellence, and when I achieve it I like to archive.  Video is a stellar choice.  On the downside video, especially YouTube video, is rife with B.S, but then again so is America.  When public education is smitten by the notion that students will be easier to teach because you give them their way allowing personal computing entertainment devices into the classroom, it was over.  It has been over since that decision was made.  While I do use a laptop computer for educational porpoises, and it is indispensable for quick research, never has it ever served as a substitute for music education.  All of the applications on the planet intended for music production cannot create art and as such I do not use them for that.  I use them to record and document my own artistry.  Since the industry as sidestepped the artistic educational process as has public education in general, we have Zombieland.  Staring at the phone will not build you a house, grow you a vegetable, fertilize an embryo, write you a song, or make you a dollar.  You must figure it out yourself first.