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!
4 years ago
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