Reviews of professor Thomas Echols

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
From what I have seen from going to the zoom classes, he treats his students very disrespectfully. He sometimes doesn't respond to emails when it's something critical like grades or accommodations. If you could choose another teacher, then choose them if online is the only option because he seems very disorganized.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Echols is passionate about his work and his students. You can tell that music is his life and education of it matters to him. There is a lot of assignments and classes are lecture heavy but all relevant. Would recommend him as a musician and teacher

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Echols is a good professor, and the class isn't very difficult, it is just a lot of work. Each week or two, there are about 10-15 quizzes due along with a few discussion posts, and two concert reports for the semester. The quizzes are over each chapter and take a while to get done, but the rest isn't too bad although technical issues do occur.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Echols was helpful and very passionate about his work. He has a strong and apparent love for music.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Tom is the most positively impactful guitar teacher i've ever had. The things he's taught me about technique and learning are infinitely valuable, truly. Whether you're taking music appreciation, you're a serious guitarist, or composer Tom will help you meet your goals if you put in the time to push your understanding of the subject area.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I loved Mr. Echols' music class. He assigns a reasonable amount of homework that isn't too difficult and the material is easy to learn as long as you do the assignments and read the book. I thought he explains things very well considering most of the class is not from a musical background and I learned quite a lot about music from him.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
IF you decide to take this teacher, heads up that the listening activities are in fact graded, on that note, the workload can be heavy at times and the actual lectures can become quite repetitive after a while, but at the end of the day it does follow the Textbook provided via day 1 materials and if you have questions the teacher is always availabl