Reviews of professor John Yao

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class was absolutely dreadful. I wrote him an email and it took him 5 days to respond. I asked him if he offers any extra credit and he completely avoided my question and told me how it's my fault that I'm doing poorly. If I was as experienced in music as he makes the tests out to be, I would've went to Juilliard.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
You'll only pass if you have the same taste in music as him. If your stylistic elements aren't what he personally wants to see, you're not passing.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I looked at the reviews for him and I wasn't expecting for his class to be as bad as it is. His assignments are lengthy, his quizzes involve listening and being able to identify certain notes/scales, & he is a tough grader if you aren't specific enough. I took some pretty tough classes this semester, and this is the class that gave the most work.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
For a gen ed music class, it is way too in depth. In-depth music knowledge required. (counting bars in a song, musical terminology). Professor is nice, but grades very toughly and truly makes you put in a lot of work. Must give several examples with time stamps of musical characteristics and descriptions using proper terminology. Textbook helps.