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Open Studio - Jazz Lesson from Jazz Legends
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Open Studio provides jazz education from today's leaders in jazz in an easy to use and interactive viewing environment.

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Open Studio 5 star review on 1st May 2024
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Open Studio 5 star review on 20th April 2024
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Open Studio 5 star review on 14th April 2024
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Open Studio 5 star review on 14th April 2024
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Open Studio 5 star review on 14th April 2024
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Open Studio 5 star review on 14th April 2024
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Open Studio 5 star review on 14th April 2024
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
I'd like to see for every video a 1 to 5 star guide, showing the level of difficulty... * very easy ** easy *** mediom and so on...
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Posted 4 years ago
365 days with „Hutch“ is a very inspiring quarantine tool for me right now, wich brings me back to focus again on the essentials but also gives me some great new ideas after 30 years of playing the drums. Thank you for your great work!
Open Studio 4 star review on 5th April 2020
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Posted 4 years ago
Amazing stuff guys !
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Posted 4 years ago
i'm very happy , Sean is a good teacher , only one thing for me is a little bit poor : the exercises , and the material to study is not sufficient , more scores, songs and other opportunities to improve the study , mostly for student like me , that are studying trumpet about tree years, it would be very valued. thank you for all !!
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Posted 4 years ago
Open Studio is definitely one of the best Piano / Jazz teaching sites around the internet. It does a fantastic job of filling in any existing "knowledge gaps" you may have in theory and practice. One of the most detailed practice regimen. Although just one thing can be improved upon: if they make video downloads available for members who have purchased courses. Notwithstanding, I will not end this review without mentioning the synergy between the two teachers handling most of the piano courses, Peter and Adam, they are not only nice geezers, but well knowledgeable in their craft, as well as the rest of the team, In Sure! Please buy any course on this site! Ugo. Nigeria.
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Posted 4 years ago
Fondamentals of Jazz and Huctology are great amazing!! I live the notation and the scroll bar an subtutle in ITA tanks. You think is possible to use same feature in Hutcology as soon? Tnks a lotLuca , Rome, italy
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Posted 4 years ago
It’s a cool site with lots of great subjects
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Posted 4 years ago
I purchased the Keez to Jazz Piano course for $129. Compared to some of the other competitors in the online Jazz Piano lessons marketplace, I think the price point is on the higher end, but I have been so impressed with the podcast and you tube content that I figured I'd give it a shot. Logistics: I had high expectations for the website and interface, and they were certainly met. The website and course flow is flawless. The living notation is so nice to have and the site is easy to navigate. I found it to be visually appealing as well. 7 stars. Course Material: I was looking for a course which would have some modern flair and advanced ideas that would help take my playing out of the intermediate level and into the advanced. I was pleased with the lessons but the curriculum didn't seem to have a particular rhyme or reason to it, covering a wide range of random topics categorized into core components of music (melody, chords, rhythm) but never touching on the elementary core concepts... again, not a problem, and certainly in line with what i was looking for : Digestible lessons of advanced concepts to help modernize and expand my playing... but that makes me wonder... whats the difference between "Keez to Jazz Piano" and "Advanced Piano Concepts" also by Geoff Keezer? Am i missing more licks and concepts that should have been included in the Keez to Jazz Piano course? would that have been a better course for me? I worry that the ambiguity between the two courses may cause potential students to struggle to commit to one in particular. The concepts in Keez to Jazz Piano certainly seemed advanced to me, so what am i missing that was omitted from this course for the purpose of being included in the Advanced Jazz Piano Concepts course? Conclusion: It pains me to not give the course 7 stars, but I must be true to my ever so slightest dissatisfaction. I would rate my experience at 4/5 stars. Suggestions: There are many moments when Keezer is providing the student with examples of certain rhythmic or melodic concepts, and sometimes these are notated via soundslice, but they are omitted from the workbook. Although you can print the soundslice to pdf, it would still be nice to have some of these included ahead of time. Further, there are other times when he goes into an improvised passage and it isn't even notated. Please spare me with the "use your ears, transcribe it", I did and I have transcribed the lines which resonated with me during these periods of Keezer Shedding at the end of the video, but I cant help but feel like it would at least help to have everything notated ahead of time. I'm very satisfied and I think if I could go back and do it again I would simply purchase the access pass. Thanks for the hard work Peter, Adam, and Geoffery, Open Studio is clearly the forefront leader in online Jazz education.
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Posted 4 years ago
すべて日本語(japan)に訳して!
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Posted 4 years ago
I did the Pentatonics course and still working through it to build speed particularly with the triplets and semi quaver patterns. My disappointment was in not having suggested fingering for right hand on all twelve scales. I appreciate that we can work out what is supposedly best for ourselves but written suggestions would have been beneficial in keeping with the support promised.
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Posted 4 years ago
Userfriendly and practical way to improve my piano skills! I love it
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Posted 4 years ago
The Jumpstart course is little bit confusing. It starts with description of pianos, synths, midi, usb... and the first guided lessons beginns with an etude which is maybe moderate for beginners. Greetings Bartosz
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Posted 4 years ago
It's a short review alright, too early to say. It's probably a big topic there how to convert new subscribers to active participating students. In my experience you need to paint the picture and get the learner to finish it, to own it. The catch22 is that we need to convince ourselves that sitting down and practicing is desireable and worth doing. And not just on principle but in fact -- practice is fun, even when it isn't! Your several emails since I signed for the 7 wk intro course have touched on several topics. This is good but they also muddy the water by talking about "lifetime entry", other courses, huge discounts, etc. All very distracting for ADHD types like myself who need to be insulated from the flotsam and jetsam of the misinformation age. What might be more conducive to helping the new student step from boat to shore would be a courtesy email welcoming him/her to the PM fold and telling them you have a surprise for them at the end of Lesson 1. And send them that tee 4shirt. Don't get me wrong: your website and emails are well done, too much so. Getting them on first base is when you can pull out all the stoppers but not before, if you know what I mean. First 10 days following a purchase devoted to polishing the focus and building a personal connection. Doesn't need to be one of you two guys. A warm pleasant rep can do the job. Some thoughts.. Marcus B. Comox Valley, BC
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Posted 4 years ago
I'm going to try and be constructively critical. While the talent on Open Studio is nothing short of phenomenal, the site layout and navigation and organization of courses could use a strong overhaul. I started by signing up for one website and then discovered it had moved to another name and then another site and I have NO clue what I'm a part of. Open Studio? Open Studio Network? Open Studio Jazz? Here are some humble suggestions: 1. When soloing, Peter Martin is a monster. Incredible. When I want to learn how to solo like Peter Martin, he'll SHRED 50,000 lines and then not remember anything he just did. So I'm just sitting in amazement but have NO idea how to achieve what he did. I would love for him to take a song and maybe take a hot lick and stop and explain what he did. Or take a 4 bar phrase and explain his thought process of approaching solo lines. I would suggest a director or producer to either slow him down ... or perhaps stop and rewind the tape to make him remember his lines. Sometimes he'll just start blazing and go off in tangents. 2. Incorporate some pop tunes. I know this a jazz site but many of us play gigs with pop tunes in them and I'd love to hear some takes on how to solo over standard pop songs. Even if it's Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay, I'd love to hear it. Let's face it, guys like me have played "My Girl" 2 billion times but Thelonius Monk doesn't get requested at Josiah's Bar Mitzvah. 3. Incorporate some practice mindset or psychology. I'll refer you to "Peak" by Anders Ericsson. 4. Dumb down the sheet music. I love Keezer's courses. But his transcriptions to his songs would only take me a 435-year half-life to learn. Maybe this serves some virtuoso pianists ... but I feel like it doesn't really serve the broad spectrum of subscribers. I learn SO much more from his course when he says "here are 4 intros to tunes you can use" rather than "here's a 12-page song in 11/72 time. Good luck!" I really do enjoy my courses but overall I feel like the subscriber would learn a lot more if the teacher treated it like a one on one session. Rather than sitting down and shredding 12 bars, show me HOW to do it and don't just burn up the keyboard and then move on. These are just my $.02. Happy reading!
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Posted 4 years ago
Open Studio is fantastic! Great resource for on-the-go professionals and students who want to learn or refresh some chops. I would highly recommend this resource to anyone who plays music and owns a computer, or Phone. Thank you Open Studio!
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Posted 4 years ago
Open Studio Jazz is a great source of inspiration and learning for me (piano). I bought the dirst 2 courses taught by G. Keezer. These cover a great amount of material, and in great in depth. GK is a very effective teacher and the material provided is extremely valuable. I spent almost one year studying only the first one (!) and I feel I made a huge progress. I strongly reccomend OSJ and look forward new exciting courses.
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Posted 4 years ago
Great content, but website could use a more user-friendly interface.
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Posted 4 years ago
I have recently joined the course "Piano Technique - Pentatonics". It is a good idea to include these exercises into your daily practice and I feel how I'm getting more control and dexterity and I hope I can transfer this to my general playing. Anyway I'm still in the first week of the practice and I hope there will also be some ideas how to use these pentatonic patterns in real jazz pieces or improvisations.
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Posted 4 years ago
A great course for beginning vibists with great exercises to learn voice leading and chord inversions Also prompt courteous and caring customer service
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Posted 4 years ago
Hey Grandon, Sorry that course wasn't a good fit. Let us know if there is a different one you would like to try. Best, Dan @ OS
Posted 4 years ago
I like the method and learn about this wonderful world that is jazz the only thing that will narrow down is that if there were the subtitles in Spanish it would be great as I would understand more in depth I hope that in the future I have many musician friends who interest them the courses but the Language. They're afraid that everything is in English but congratulations are very happy at Open Studio
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Posted 4 years ago
Open Studio is rated 4.7 based on 1,893 reviews