Reviews of professor Ady Cohen

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Ady Cohen is an easy to talk to teacher who gives great examples in class. I have discovered several new artists I now love! He is a strict grader but gives good feedback. If you follow the instructions you'll receive a good grade. Recommend!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He gave out practice midterms, and the actual midterm was not even remotely similar to the practice tests. He grades very very tough, and most of your learning is going to be textbook learning. It was nice not having a lot of homework until I realized that he grades really tough on what he DOES assign. The midterm and final projects are also long.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is really a tough grader, I rewrite the assignment But he refused to regrade it and give me 0. I learned nothing on the class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Never hesitate to take his class! Always respond quickly and professionally. He is the gem!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Sleepy zzz...zzz...  hard assignments and bad teaching skills.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I enjoyed Ady's class a lot. He puts a lot of emphasis on hearing individual instruments, parts, and tones which I really appreciated. He's a tough grader and very detailed and meticulous, but you will learn a lot about making creative and understandable charts. He pushes you to get better, and is lenient with late assignments if you communicate.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Professor Cohen was an excellent teacher to have for Arranging 1, especially for my first semester as a student at Berklee. His lectures were extremely thorough while being simultaneously engaging. In his class, we explored different-styled arrangements of well known songs as well as songs that I had not heard before in my life, which was great.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Do not take him. I took him for arranging 1 and now I am struggling a lot in arranging 2 since I learned nothing from him. He just shows videos during the whole class and never talks about the essentials of arranging at all.
You will waste your time do not take him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Took CW-411 and CW-450. His class is definitely not a chill&easy one. He gives you an actual specific critique and feedback (which is rare in Berklee where everyone kinda avoids to make critical comments, but I learn more from his way). Most of all, I love his sincere appreciation towards music and that he is a very inspirational person and mentor.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I understand that Professor Cohen has good intentions, but this class just falls flat for me. His grading methods are needlessly harsh and don't match the things he says in class. Not much constructive criticism. I am a straight A student, I show up to class and do my work and found him to be very frustrating.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Cohen is clearly passionate about his subject, but his grading isn't clear and he gives LONG, boring lectures and wonders why the class does not participate. Tough grader on homework but tests and projects are very easy. Good guy, not my kind of teacher.