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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
The pro version seems a bit overwhelming and if you need the earliest materials you need to spend minutes to find them, and once you are done with example 1, it takes you to the top of the posts. Rather than that, it’s an awesome experience.
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Posted 9 months ago
Hi Kian, This is great feedback. We are in the process of rebuilding the platform and there are some things in the works that should alleviate that pain point. Happy Practicing. Dan co-founder, Open Studio
Posted 9 months ago
I really love your guided sessions. Sadly for me it's not possible to join live sessions because I live in Germany. I love the podcast You'll Hear It! For the feature I wish more guitar related stuff.
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Posted 10 months ago
Hey Steve, Thanks for the feedback. Consider joining Open Studio Pro where we have live sessions virtually everyday, which would be in the evenings in Germany. If you haven't checked out our guitar guru, Chris Parks, you would love his 5 sessions he teaches weekly. You can see more about them here: https://www.openstudiojazz.com/parks We have some great guitar stuff in the pipeline also. Happy practicing! Dan co-founder, Open Studio
Posted 9 months ago
It’s a blast. I’ve been a jobbing musician for over 30 years and everything helps…from reviewing basic scales and voicings to more advanced harmonies and tunes, plus guided practice, I have a ton of resources at my fingertips.
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Posted 11 months ago
So far, so good! I've just started with the basic lessons as a kind of review of what I already know, and yet I've already learned some interesting things. What I would slightly tweak is the fact that sometimes it takes quite a bit to match the lesson to the related materials, for example the backing tracks. In my opinion, instead of having the materials in some kind of pool, it would be much more practical to have them "glued" to the lesson :-), so you have the tools to practice right there, without having to look for them elsewhere, or far down the page. Warm regards!! Ricardo
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Posted 11 months ago
Obviously the best Jazz course I have ever seen, and I have seen a bunch. However, I find Adam's lessons much more useful in terms of pace, depth and the way of presentation. No doubt Peter is a more experienced professional, and there are indeed gems in some of the videos (especially the YouTube series), but maybe Peter has been a pro for too long and has lost the empathy for level 1-3 beginners. Some of the courses, even though with "beginner" in the title, and starts with super-rudimentary interval, major/minor chord building, soon skips to a lot of improv and tips that are not very practiceable and progressive. I myself might be a strange combination, but let me elaborate. I'm not in the music business but I take piano and keyboard series, most of the early times I self-learn, and it's been like that for ~10 years (I'm 36 now). As an adult I learn the theory of things super fast, I'm perfectly aware of the scales, chord qualities, modes, shell voicing, blues form, etc., because I've read like 50 jazz books and followed pretty much every piano / jazz tutor on YouTube. The thing is, knowing something by brain is so different than creating flow of notes confidently by hands. Living in an env without much communications amongst musicians I don't have the privilege to learn by imitation and conversation, so even my technique is probably medium level and I can play ok with clear instructions, it haunts me badly when I sit with only chord progressions and has to come up good patterns just in time. I find Adam's pentatonics series very enjoyable, practicing those patterns makes me feel closer to the feel of improv and they do sound good. However, scanning through all the lessons I find there is still a missing link for people like me. If I'm allowed to speak for my kind of people. I don't really need anything rudimentary so it's not like every lesson has to start with definitions of major/minor/tonality/blues scale/form/pentatonics/altered scale/etc., but I desperately need for some ingredients to start improv, probably step by step. First with ingredients of choice of notes (pentatonics) and probably some rhythms (which Adam had some in the Rhythm course), then with the palettes do some GPS that mix and match the combos of the ingredients. I really love the "call and response" style GPS because I don't have other musicians to practice with, so I imagined that Adam would do some comping and improv, 8 measures, then for the student. The same thing goes for comping, in a reversely way. I know everything is created on the spot but there are definitely patterns that can get us a real kickstart. Also it would be nice to dissect famous standards performances that use certain patterns to put more confidence in students. This way, together with some ideas for how students could explore and push the envelope little by little, then it would be very nice. With all that said, your courses and videos are the closest to what I really loved to learn with. If you need my inputs on build new courses, please do make contact, I'm more than happy to help!
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Posted 11 months ago
As long as i can afford it is fine Chris Parks class is excellent because he makes you play all the time and forces you to be in time. Jeremys class is great except you have to ask him and he will listen to you play which helps a great deal. He needs pdfs Adams facebook site is excellent because he has ideas that will help you with hand coordination. ADAM wants us to use his beginner course online which is fine BUT he should a practice routine I think people need to LISTEN TO ALL the instruments. Find out what the timing is . That will improve our ear
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Posted 1 year ago
The best part is the community of people with similar goals and passions. There are many great teachers who are enthusiastic about teaching and offering different topics and styles of playing. There is such a wealth of courses you can spend hours every day learning something new and practicing. The downside is the lack of guidance for the new members of OpenStudioPro. You have to just jump in and figure it all out where to go on your own.
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Posted 1 year ago
Great live sessions plus available recordings Really great and supportive teaching, also in a live way on zoom Super communitiy
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Posted 1 year ago
I love the platform but I'd put more effort into the subtitles, especially in spanish. Also I'd put velocity controls in the reproducer.
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Posted 1 year ago
Hi Jesus, Thanks for taking the time to provide a review. We are always looking to improve our courses and making them more accessible. Currently we do have Spanish subtitles on select courses: • Thoughts and Experiments with Solo Piano (Fred Hersch) • Jazz Piano for Beginners (Peter Martin) • Jazz Trumpet Fundamentals Vol 1 (Sean Jones) • Jazz Trumpet Fundamentals Vol 2 (Sean Jones) • Fundamentals of Jazz Bass and Beyond (Christian McBride) • Jazz Chords for Beginners (Adam Maness) • Rhythm Section Fundamentals (Peter Martin Trio) • Rhythm Section Workout (Peter Martin Trio) As far as speed control, you can adjust the speed in the video player by following instructions here: https://openstudio.helpscoutdocs.com/article/758-how-do-you-speed-up-or-slow-down-the-videos If you have any other questions, you can reach out to us at support@openstudiojazz.com. Happy practicing Dan Co-founder Open Studio
Posted 1 year ago
I love the intro to bossa nova course, excellent experience for me. the rhythm course as well, although i have only done a few lessons.
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Posted 1 year ago
Everything is Great but the video player pn mobile could be improved
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Posted 1 year ago
Hi there, We love feedback like this. Can you give me examples of how the video player experience on mobile could be better? Best, Dan co-founder, Open Studio
Posted 1 year ago
Reliable structure very good.
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Posted 1 year ago
Open studio is the only source for learning blues piano that I have found that steps you through the process. Other sites provide lots of information, but for those of us just starting out and trying to transition from classical piano (learned at a very young age) to blues and jazz (at a much much older age,) we need to start with a lot of the basics all over again. I have to laugh at some things though. Like the 30 day practice challenge, Day 1 is more like Week 1 for me. But it is all good, and once you start to get the hang of really hearing and the rhythm it gets a lot better! Happy playing everyone!
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Posted 1 year ago
I like Open Studio a lot. I'm a bassist (doubler) trying to get some basic piano skills. I tend to need a lot more physical practice than entry level music theory as I have experience and schooling for that part already. Otherwise, the pace is good for me and I appreciate the deep understanding and experience of Adam and Peter. I also like that, with my Bundle purchase, I can take some bass lessons as well.
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Posted 1 year ago
The videos are not playing as fluid (freeze ) as one expect
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Posted 1 year ago
The pentatonic course (just finished "Take the Coltrane") is of great help because for me it's the first time that I really know what and how to practice! :-) Nevertheless, I do have a request: As there is no way around practicing it would be extremely helpful to have a nice play-along for the four tunes. Ideally in like three different tempos. It would be great if you could provide this or give me an idea of where to get this to make practicing happy. :-))
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Posted 1 year ago
Open Studio gives every day a good reason to keep studying.
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Posted 1 year ago
Well first of all , thanks for this great website this is awesome stuff. Maybe i couldnt find it yet, but what i especially need is some guided practice sessions to master soloing with rh while comping myself with the left. That would be my input , thanks for reading.
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Posted 1 year ago
The prompt for this review came pretty soon after I started the trumpet course, so it's probably too early to tell, but I'm convinced that Sean Jones is a great trumpeter and effective teacher, based on the first handful of lessons. From what I can see, there are not a lot of tips and tricks or 80/20-style "shortcuts" or extended techniques, but even though I'm skeptical of those things I do like them in principle (basically for rapid improvement and creative possibilities). One thing I'd love is a lesson or two on how the mechanics of the trumpet can be exploited for jazz, like how certain scales (e.g., pentatonics) can be played almost entirely on one valve, or how alternate fingerings can help with tonguing fast phrases. And, to be wildly specific, how can I play like Wadada Leo Smith?! (Or Miles Davis, or Freddie Hubbard, or... Sean Jones?! What stylistic habits make individual trumpeters distinctive and special?)
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Posted 1 year ago
guided practice is great
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Posted 1 year ago
Open Studio is rated 4.7 based on 1,883 reviews