Learn from the Best, Herbie Hancock and Carols Santana are Your Music Teachers— MasterClass Online Classes|Music Tech Alliance

Jeffrey Wang/王俊元
Music Tech Alliance
4 min readApr 5, 2021

If we can learn new skills form the master in a field, it’s so attractive. If your teacher is Christina Aguilera, you definitely treasure the chance.

In the past, there is no chance to learn from the best. But now, it’s available to learn how to play basketball with Stephen Curry, how to play guitar with Carols Santana, how to play Jazz with Herbie Hancock. The classes are available on MasterClass online classes.

The Features of MasterClass Online Classes

MasterClass online classes has a wide range of subjects including Arts & Entertainment, Business, Design & Style, Sports & Gaming, Writing and more.There are many music masters like Jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, German film score composer Hans Zimmer, American singer Christina Aguilera and guitarist Carlos Santana.

In my thought, I don’t think MasterClass totally adaptive to beginners, it doesn’t teach you how to play music scales and chord from foundations. Taking Carol Santana class for example, it has 16 video classes, at an average of 10 minutes per lesson. Carols Santana shares his music concept and treasurable experience about music, they are more advanced classes.

Classes with Workbook and Sheet Music

There is a downloadable workbook in every class help reinforce your learning. Workbook is exquisite as a magazine. You can use this workbook to follow along with the video classes and complete the assignments to put master’s advice and experience into practice.

There are tab numbers in videos which corresponds to the sheet music in workbook. There is a video time in the right upper of sheet music.

Audio Mode — Learning by Listening

At MasterClass, it’s available to stream thousands of lessons anywhere, anytime, on mobile, desktop and TV.

On MasterClass mobile apps, you can switch video lessons into audio mode. In audio mode, you don’t have to stare at the mobile screen, even closing the mobile screen and learn the classes by listening. It’s very convenient like you listen to podcast.

Most of our classes are only offer with English closed captioning/subtitles. However a few classes just with Spanish and German subtitles. You can adjust the video quality by clicking on the gear icon at the bottom right of the video player, selecting from the quality options of 360p, 540p,720p and 1080p that pop up. Selecting “Auto” to let the site manage the quality based on your internet speed.

The video you haven’t finished are in the page of “My Progress”, welcome to resume them anytime.

What MasterClass You’re Interested in? Discover and Search for the Library

There are two ways you can find the classes you may have interests at MasterClass:

Searching for the library based on subjects

MasterClass separates all classes into subjects, every subject lists the masters and classes clearly. It is convenient for those users know what they prefer.

Clicking the subject you like, it will display the classes at the bottom.

On MasterClass mobile, there are 5 tabs at the bottom. The third tab is the function of searching as above. And the fourth tab is like video as below, you can switch to different subjects by swiping left or right on your phone and scrolling through the feeds.

Discover the classes arranged by MasterClass

If you have no idea how to start your learning. The “Discover” page has many sections arranged by algorithms, high click numbers and editors.

For example, the section of “Lessons you’ll love “ is based on the register information generating by algorithms. The section of “Most Popular Today“ shows the hottest classes most people click. The other sections like “For You Today” and “The Short Cut” are produced by editors who create the highlights of classes.

Pricing

There is no free trial for Masterclass, now the annual membership is $189 and provides unlimited access to all classes. Depending on where you live, you may be charged taxes in addition to your annual membership price. If tax applies, you will see it stated separately on your emailed invoice. Tax rates are calculated based on your location or the billing information you provided at the time of purchase. MasterClass membership includes access to the mobile and TV apps, high-definition videos, and downloadable class workbooks.

If you don’t want to continue, you can cancel your membership renewal on the Settings page, and your membership will not renew. Please note that there aren’t refunds for partially unused membership periods.

If MasterClass isn’t for you, then email support@masterclass.com within 30 days of the date you purchase your subscription and Masterclass will offer a full refund. MasterClass is also can be a great gift for your children and friends. It offers eGifts for individual courses as well as our All Access Pass.

Thanks for your reading! Keep learning and moving forward.💪

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Jeffrey Wang/王俊元
Music Tech Alliance

A man who combines with 🎸music, 👨‍💻software engineering and business. 🔎 IG: jeffreywang1183