GMTC Certified at Gospel Music Training Center
GMTC Certified at Gospel Music Training Center
Recently I completed the “Foundations” section in the HearandPlay GMTC Gospel Music Training Center. It consisted of a five part, 9 hour video instruction series. The five parts were Fundamental Factory, Chord County, Pattern Paradise, Song Station, and Ear Elevator. In a nutshell that means learning your fundamentals, chord structures, pattern progressions, songs, and ear training. You take a quiz after each chapter and I believe there were over 200 questions by the end of the course. After completion of the “Foundations” course I was pleasantly surprised to see a big red “GMTC Certified” button at the top of my dashboard within GMTC.
Also, in case anybody wonders, I actually did in fact watch each and every video tutorial in the Foundations section. In addition, I completed each quiz with at least an 80 percentile score. In fact you can’t “unlock” the next video in the series until you pass the quiz on the video before it, so you kind of need to know your stuff to continue. Of course if you are an intermediate or advances keyboardist, you can perhaps try and skip the videos, but there are some trick questions which require you to either guess or simply watch the video. I recommend watching the videos though because obviously that’s what one is paying for..LOL.
Once you get the big red “GMTC Certified” button on your dashboard you can move on to learning songs, chatting with other members, and checking out the other areas of the site. You also don’t have to become GMTC Certified right away. Instead you can simply learn just the songs or meet other members. It’s up to you.
I thought the GMTC Certified section was great. It gets all members on an equal footing or understanding of the “Play by Ear” method that HearandPlay’s instruction and videos are based on. Other online instructional sites I know are very unorganized with no foundation. New members are left wondering where to start and I think it’s fantastic that GMTC offers a solution for those requiring some sort of structure or basis to begin their instructional journey with. I thought this concept was brilliant to tell you the truth. Well done GMTC!
