Posted in: Guitar by RenaissanceMan on October 24th, 2007 | 0 Comments
This is an enlightening interview with Jim Sutton who talks about his International Correspondence school for guitar. Jim is a versatile performer and teacher and he has taught many people over the years.
As readers of Guitar World’s classified ads section (under Schools) undoubtedly know, Jim Sutton is a guitar instructor who runs an international correspondence school.
Jim teaches a wide variety of styles including finger style, jazz, blues, neo-classical and Latin rhythm. He’s planning a rock lead course as well as a Christian Praise Music program. He’s a very versatile guitarist and teaches people how to develop their own style in a very organized fashion. Jim has a number of tracks to learn from including his Moving Towards Great Guitar Playing Course (Pre-theory), the Theory Course and his Modal Playing and Solo Composition Course. He issues a certificate for the Theory Course and the Solo Composition course, both of which are graded. He also has a Jazz lead series.
Aside from the courses and pre-packaged booklets and recordings (tapes or CD’s), Jim also offers transcriptions and personalized studies (charts and recordings of the music by Jim himself) and selected study of any topic by Jim all for a cost effective $50 per song or study. Jim is the only one who does anything like this for so low a price. Most competitors charge $60 an hour and they don’t include a recorded performance; some include a digital slowdown of the music only.
The reason why this article about Jim’s Institute is so timely is that in this day of music the lack of technical playing has caused a dearth of really good music being written. The music industry is in a slump and Jim’s Institute has the tools to take the music industry out of the doldrums. Readers of Guitar World, who are interested in becoming the next Guitar God, can achieve their goals with Jim’s Institute if they have the facility or “chops” to do so. Jim can teach them the nuts and bolts of great guitar work. One way a musician can stay current is to reinvent himself and Jim can teach a person how to do that, too.
This author graduated both the Theory Course and the Modal Playing and Solo Composition Course and I heartily recommend these courses for anyone looking to excel in music, no matter what style it is. I did extremely well in the 2 courses and it helped out my playing immensely.
Jim is a very busy man. In addition to his Institute, he’s a studio musician too. He gets quite a bit of work sent his way.
