My Review: Are Tom Hess Guitar Lessons Worth The Price?

My Review: Are Tom Hess Guitar Lessons Worth The Price?

By now you have probably heard of the popular rock and metal guitar teacher, Tom Hess. His articles and videos are all over the internet, he even offers music career advice to people looking to get into the music industry (something that I hope to do someday for myself). But does he get results? As a guitarist looking to hone my skills and build a little speed, I decided to investigate – and here’s some interesting information I came across:

Reviews About Tom Hess Guitar Lessons:

Immediately I noticed a review of Tom Hess’s guitar lessons by Mike Philippov. I’ve seen his guitar playing in several YouTube, and he can really play. In his review, Philippov talks very highly of Hess and makes a very convincing case – Hell, with those kind of chops, he must’ve done something right.

After Google, I tried YouTube. Came up with many results, but the one at the top was a video with tons of reviews by actual Tom Hess guitar students. Everyone seems to have really received a lot of results. Saw this stuff too while Google searching on Hess’s website: http://tomhess.net/CorrespondenceGuitarLessonsStudentFeedback.aspx

In the end, I felt pretty intrigued by all the positive benefits people were receiving. I found other results with negative things to say about Hess, but they all came in the form of “F*** Hess”, “I hate Tom Hess” and so on. Not much for me to go on there, but then again, I tend to steer clear of blind, vitriolic internet hate.

The first Tom Hess music careers mentoring program review I came across was by someone named Lee Gattenby, a guitar teacher in Alaska. Seems he has built a pretty nice teaching business for himself and released his own music. Not bad... I continued searching…

Next, I found what seems to be an interview with Tom Hess about music career advice. Not so much a music careers mentoring program review as it is Tom debunking various music career myths. Very insightful though – worth a look.

More glowing reviews of Hess’s programs. Overall, can’t help but be intrigued by this guy. So in the end, I say give him a shot. He talks a big game, sure seems to walk a big game (see his various shredding videos on YouTube) and really comes off as genuinely serious about helping his students.