I am very happy to offer a new, additional service to you. In order for me to better track your musical progress and to provide you with more personal coaching and training, I encourage you to periodically submit recordings of your playing to me. Recordings may be in audio format (.mp3 only), or video (.mpeg or .mov extensions only please).
I will listen to them and comment on the things which I believe are currently holding you back from progressing at the fastest rate.
If you are a Correspondence Guitar Lessons student (or if you are enrolled in the Neoclassical Revelation Hybrid Program), you will have the opportunity to submit a recording to me once every 6 weeks.
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You may submit your first recording at any time by uploading your file into the "Upload your file here" field above, and click the "" button to send the file to me. Please label your file with your first and last name and the date of your submission! Failure to do so may delay your feedback getting posted.
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I will post my written comments on a special sub forum for you (and other students) to read. The forum (titled "Tom's Feedback On Your Playing") is part of the general student forum.
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You may submit additional recordings to me by uploading a new file into the "Upload your file here" field above once every 6 weeks (from the date of your most recent submission).
As you know, listening to, thinking about and responding to your recordings with targeted feedback will take a lot of time. Therefore I have a choice to make. I can either focus on helping you overcome the challenges and issues that I can detect in your playing (by listening), or I can let you ask me questions freely about any topic. I have decided that the best way I can serve you is by investing 100% of my time into the recordings of your actual playing and not take additional questions in this form. There are 2 reasons for this:
1. I have found that most of the time, when students ask me questions about their recordings, they ask the wrong questions! Often, these questions are NOT be the most important or urgent things you need to be thinking about at this moment. So focusing on those questions may actually distract you from focusing on things that matter most for you right now!
2. Very often, students ask questions that can be easily answered by other advanced players in our great forum community.
Because of this, I am not going to take any questions about these recordings... You will receive MORE value and benefit from me when I can invest my time into only giving you the feedback you really need based on what I can hear and observe in your playing. This is also the reason why I am going to prevent any other members from posting comments to your recordings on the "Tom's Feedback On Your Playing" forum. I want you to read and think about the things I tell you to focus on FIRST!
If you simply cannot wait to get a specific question answered about an issue that I do not address in the feedback sub forum, you can ask it in the general forum (or another appropriate sub forum).
Feel free to record yourself playing anything you would like my advice on. You may send a recording of yourself playing scales, arpeggios, recordings of you playing the exercises from our lessons together, licks, riffs, songs (covers or originals), improvisations or anything else that you want me to critique (there is no requirement about what to submit). However, in order to get the most from my advice to you, do not spend a lot of time trying to get the most "perfect" version of your playing on the recording. What I need to see/hear is the most "realistic" sample of your playing. This way I will be able to help you much more effectively. Your goal should not be to necessarily "impress me", instead you need to show me what you can "realistically" do and let me help you take your guitar playing to the next level faster. If you are still unsure of what you should play on the recording, listen to some of the samples of what other students have sent to me in the past in the "Tom's Feedback On Your Playing" section of the tomhess.net forum.
Thanks, and I look forward to listening to your playing soon!
Tom
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