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I stand by it. Rio was being abused, and his parents lied to. They were paying this snake to radicalize their son, make him through away his career goals to be brought on as a teacher.
Why am I exposing this? Because ALL of Tom's teachers act like this. That's the MO. NONE of them see an issue here. If we let them set up in our towns, they'll group together to target your business's reputation online, they'll do everything they can to run you out of business, and then they'll spread their soulless playing further and further.
I don't believe this kid is affiliated with Hess - for one he's got a video of him teaching online. Tom doesn't allow that because it competes with him.
Ack... it's not a great video, but he's honest - he says he's not great at it, but it's interesting for some people to see how others are learning.
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@bingefeller @Plectrum @slacker You know the adage "those who can't do, teach"? That's what this thread is about. Or maybe even those who can't do either.
The reason? It's the quickest way to improvement in most situations.
I guess it comes down to whether you're happy with what you can already do. I'd class making music as playing rather than practising, and if someone can't make the music they want in the way they want to, then what they need is the improvement that most likely comes only from practising (working on skills).
Hoping to improve by playing rather than practising, ie.spending time learning songs rather than working on skills, is IMO a scattergun approach that will fail for most. It can sometimes succeed, and certainly did for me in places, but at the cost of many wasted hours.
Learning new songs is certainly a vital part of the process because it leads us to new challenges. However, often a student will sweep the challenges from one song under the carpet and move on to the next. At some point any benefits from learning new material have been exhausted and the hidden mess needs cleaning up. That point is in many cases reached way before it's addressed, and is the point where I'd likely recommend 100% of a student's guitar playing time to be spent on technique (skills).
When the relevant skills are already in place, both learning and playing songs is easy. Teaching a student to strum through Knocking on Heaven's Door for example (G, C, D, Am) is a challenge proportional to the level of their lack of skill. That is to say, if they can already strum through other songs in a similar style, it won't take more than a minute. With a rank beginner, the same challenge could take three months or more!
I bet it'd be better than the original.