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educational videos, 65% were tutorials with creators providing useful tips on
how to learn and/or create music. However, it should be taken into considera-
tion that the research was conducted a decade ago, and we can assume that the-
re have been some changes in music education content on YouTube regarding
its quality and quantity. Reviewing the existing research papers on YouTube
in music education, we noticed a lack of research on acquisition of knowled-
ge and skills in some areas, such as harmony, counterpoint, musical forms, mu-
sic theory, ear training, sight-reading, sight-playing, and sight-singing practice.
Regarding this issue, our goal is to analyse, compare, and evaluate the potenti-
al of selected YouTube channels and their music education content in the pro-
cess of transmission and acquisition of knowledge and skills.

Systematization of YouTube content from a music education
perspective

Music education videos are only a small part of the content on YouTube that
can be used for music education purposes. An in-depth analysis of the content
implies its classification, which is impossible to carry out completely due to the Nikolina Matoš, Srđan Stanojević ◆ The educational potential of YouTube channels for teaching and learning music
quantity of YouTube channels and videos, and its daily growth. However, the
analysis can be limited to only creators and channels from a certain country/
continent, a certain period (for example, videos created in the last four years),
or a category which includes only a certain type of video. The analysis can be
based upon one of the following starting points/perspectives:
– The scientific perspective – researching the role, possibilities, (dis)advan-
tages, and other psychological and/or sociological aspects of YouTube
in (music) education contexts.
– The pedagogy/didactic perspective – assessing the possibilities of organi-
zation, creation, and implementation of YouTube content in teaching
and learning settings.
– The content perspective – dividing YouTube videos into type-specific
and content-specific categories.
– The legal perspective – researching the legal aspects of YouTube and its
use in the teaching and learning process.

We decided to start from the content perspective in order to recognize the
types of music and music education videos which can be utilized for educati-
onal purposes. Firstly, type and content identification gives more insight into
the possibilities of video implementation, and secondly, it provides guidelines
for the creation of similar content, both by teachers and students themselves.
The best way towards the systematization of content is the categorization of
YouTube channel owners, i.e. the analysis of users who upload music and mu-
sic education content (Table 1). Music lovers and collectors (the first category)

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