Curious about "topics the internet left behind," where there's tons of deep knowledge in old books, but most everything online's shallow & Yahoo Answers-like. Serious piano practice technique is a good example; culinary composition is another.
Why do some topics end up that way?
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Incidentally, on the serious piano practice point, I was pleased to stumble across this web book, which did actually present me with some interesting new ideas: tals-of-piano-practice.readthedocs.io/chapter1/index
e.g. on tremolos:
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It's interesting to me that you use piano practice as an example. Given the difficulty of describing what to do via print, I've thought of video as a much better medium for exactly this! There are thorough discussions by Graham Fitch and John Mortensen that I've found very useful
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And although her videos are short, I think Nahre Sol does a terrific job of putting a lot of information in a small space, e.g.
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Conversely, I've been trying to work on organ technique and am using books for it, and I often have no idea what sound the author wants me to go for. I don't think a book can tell me how legato "ordinary touch" is supposed to sound, even when the authors are excellent.
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Right! Video *should* be a better medium. And some topics are very well covered on e.g. YouTube. Like, if you want to learn to make fresh pasta, there are tons of great videos. But some topics are deserts!
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I agree with this observation! I also agree there must be tons of old knowledge that people simply aren't trying to access right now. But I think there are good online piano materials *if* one knows where to look (a big if!)
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