Review – Abigail’s Ghost – Black Plastic Sun – by Shawn Dudley

Founder, Tony Nystuen, has taken and taught hundreds of lessons over his 25 year career in the music industry. He has experienced several various teaching techniques and the way in which students have responded to those techniques. Tony has found that a majority of teaching techniques follow a standard progression of steps to learning music. These standard teaching techniques involve learning how to read sheet music, then notes and cords, then other essential styles and techniques, aka “the basics”. Then you will spend endless hours repeating scales over and over, and finally you will learn how to play “Mary had a Little Lamb” or “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” … Don’t know what is up with the “Little” songs, but man is that BORING! You end up sick and tired of your instrument and music before you ever really get going! Instead, Tony has developed a technique that maximizes student interest by essentially reversing the afore mentioned standard teaching process. During your first lesson,you learn how to play YOUR favorite song as simply as possible. Then, in subsequent lessons, you take the song apart, learning the nuances of every riff in the song. At this point you will also begin to learn the cords, notes, other techniques and sheet music for YOUR favorite song. This method of developing “the basics” has proven to be a much more fun and inspiring way to learn, which will keep you much more interested throughout your entire learning experience.