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non-European music. Nahre Sol analyses classical (baroque to contemporary)
music, and she talks about film, video game, popular, jazz, and world music.
All the creators also publish original compositions and covers.
The music education content on the selected channels is rich and diverse.
David Bruce covers the following topics: problems of rhythm and metre (e.g.
concepts of polyrhythm, negative rhythm, micro rhythm), classical, contem-
porary, and jazz harmony, formal analysis of musical works, composing, arran-
ging, orchestration, and musicological content. Rick Beato theoretically and
practically deals with scales, tonalities, chords and harmonic progressions, as
well as contemporary music theory issues and post-tonality theory. A speci-
al component of his channel are videos in which he explains the acquisition
of certain skills and development of music abilities, such as making progress
with relative pitch, developing perfect pitch, mastering intervals and chords,
sight-singing, inner note hearing, playing by ear, and applying music theory
knowledge while ‘decoding’ music. Inside the Score uploads analyses of classical
and film music, including various theoretical and musicological aspects, whi-
ch can be seen on the ‘Discovering Classical Music’ podcast, and the channel’s Nikolina Matoš, Srđan Stanojević ◆ The educational potential of YouTube channels for teaching and learning music
playlists called ‘Movie Music’ and ‘Art Music’. Music Matters offers a lot of
music theory and musicological content: a significant feature of this YouTu-
be channel is the possibility of preparation for the exams in music theory, mu-
sic dictation, and piano, given that Gareth Green (one of the channel’s crea-
tors) works at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM), one
of the leading assessment institutions in Great Britain. Adam Neely also de-
als with numerous music theory and musicological topics, such as the concept
of polytonality, absolute pitch, and music as a ‘universal language’. He also te-
aches about composing, arranging and orchestration, music acoustics, music
production, music aesthetics, music psychology, and the acquisition of skills.
Nahre Sol has devoted herself to piano lessons and tutorials, and she discus-
ses composing, arranging, and improvising from a pianist’s perspective. Just
like the other creators, Sol analyses classical and popular music, covers vario-
us music theory and musicological arguments, and talks about music psycho-
logy and acoustics.

Interpretation of the data gathered by content analysis
and comparison

A detailed review of the selected YouTube channels gave us the possibility of
providing answers to the research questions, which can be answered as follows:

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