A Chinese instrument-Pipa lesson can be divided into a beginning level, medium level, and advanced level. It is a 100% online course provided by the Imusic-school online school. This course aims to anyone who is interested in the Chinese instrument. In other words, students may come from varied backgrounds, varied degree, varied ages, and even for people who they have never known Chinese instruments. In this Pipa lesson, they are not only provided the basic playing skills but also they teach how to analyze the famous work to help students further understand the culture of Pipa.
Enrollment: The Pipa lesson is an open-enrollment course which means anyone who pays the tuition can access to the course. Learners must be signed up and registered first through the Imusic-school website. Then they need to pay a tuition fee in order to get code to access the course.
Plateform: This Pipa course platform is a learning management systems that require specific course structure. For example, in this course, they put the introduction of Pipa at the top of the website and the introduction of an instructor right below the introduction of Pipa. In the right side of the website, it is a lesson presentation. If you like this style of teaching, you may continue reading the bottom of the lesson structure. If you do not like this style of teaching, it is convenient for people to chose other instructors. The bottom of the page is the specific course structure, For instance, the Pipa course is divided into three parts. Learners start with learning the introduction of the instrument like postures. For the second session, learners begin to recognize the strings and notes and play basic scales. For the last session, learners can learn to play the first position on the first string and so on (n.d.).
Pathway: For this course, It is a centralized pathway. In this course, the learners do not have control about this course because all the course content has designed in advance. In other words, everything you can learn is from the instructor. Therefore, you do not have the chance to interact with the pod.
Reference:
Pipa Lessons Online: Learn Chinese Instruments: Imusic-school. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.imusic-school.com/en/chinese-instruments/lessons/pipa/