I know, I’m obsessed with YouTube. I admit it. But it’s my go-to site. It’s <ahem> educational. Need to know how to use Photoshop? Comb your hair into a beehive? Make a rainbow loom bracelet? Fold a napkin swan? Any skill you could ever want to learn–there’s a tutorial for that. My daughter views tutorials on cosmetics application. And last year, when I was painting my study (so much harder than I anticipated), I watched a dozen painting tutorials.

YouTube tutorials can also help you progress in your art. My son has watched hundreds of guitar tutorials. And I found tutorials especially useful in my teaching and my own practicing.

Long before the Pitch Perfect movie came out,virtually every elementary general music teacher and band teacher taught his classes the Cup Beat Game. It goes like this:

Rich Mullins even incorporated it into his song, “Screen Door.” This is really…