John Boulding Reviews

John Boulding submitted 9/19/2008 Submitter Dandebanjo (see all reviews from this person) Overall Comments I am totally new to music - in terms of playing an instrument and my desire is to be a musician with the 5 string Banjo as my 'weapon' of choice. If you want to be a musician then John is the guy to take instruction from - if you want to play a Banjo - you can teach yourself from books and tabs but you'll have a hard time playing in a band unless they happen to play one of the tabs you have learnt by heart! John teaches the fundamentals of the Banjo to get you to where you can play the instrument not just learn a tab and repeat the same thing over and over. The lessons over the internet are great value for money - convenient for me and hopefull JB and I know i will learn a lot more with John than i could ever teach myself. Is there a downside - yes a couple, SKYPE is not 100% reliable and i can't shake John by the hand to thank him for all he is doing for me. Top man, top marks and no complaints at all. Overall Rating 10

John Boulding submitted 12/17/2007 Submitter sunday (see all reviews from this person) Overall Comments Just finished first lesson with John. I like his approach. He is very thorough. I would highly recomend him. Chris Prewitt Overall Rating 10

John Boulding submitted 12/8/2007 Submitter MoTomCat (see all reviews from this person) Overall Comments I am very impressed with John as a teacher, and with him teaching the lessons online, he is available to just about everyone. He takes the time to find out where the student is in his banjo learning journey, finds out where the student wants to go, and then starts helping them toward their goals. He asked me what I felt my shortcoming were on the banjo, and what I felt I needed to work on first, and then proceeded to help me in the areas I had identified as problem areas for me. So far, I have not seen any "canned" lessons, but rather ideas and concepts that will help me become a better banjo player and reach the goals I have for myself on the banjo. After taking some lessons from teachers who only gave out "canned" lessons, or those who didn't take time to learn where the student was or what the student wanted out of the lessons, I was very pleased that John took an interest in gearing the lessons toward me personally. I gave John a 10 rating, because I believe he deserves it. Tom Overall Rating 10