Reviews of professor David Buley

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Avoid at all costs.  Berates students, singles them out to highlight faults.  If a prof can make you literally dread coming to music class there is a problem.  The course content is not challenging, but completing the course with a shred of confidence intact is almost impossible.  Is musical and talented, but gifted at making students feel inept.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very rude, but, lenient on due dates (you could literally pass in everything at the last minute). However, he also clearly doesn't pay attention to people in his class. I did not feel welcome once, and he went as far to call people with COVID "lazy" for staying home and attending online. Very different experience than I was expecting..

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Yikes... Publicly humiliates students in front of their peers. Uncomfortable. Unclear assignments. Rude feedback. Makes you feel dumb. Made his feedback public so everyone could see comments he would write. Changed/added to assignments last minute. We didn't recieve any grades back until the semester was almost done. Avoid taking him if you can.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Rude feedback. Picks apart projects, finding rude claims and remarks. Used a song about ballerinas and he said it was bad for me to use the word ballerina but to instead say "ballet dancer", which I found rude and uncalled for considering the comment was public for everyone to see. Also makes ukulele quite confusing so your on your own.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
David is one of the best profs I have ever come by at Memorial University. His enthusiasm for music and education is amazing. Class requires you to get up and moving (dancing, singing) but theres not many singling out moments. This class built my confidence and made me extra comfortable to become a teacher. He knows his stuff

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This prof is exceptional and gifted.  He is exceptional at avoiding any responsibility for assessing students or teaching course material... and gifted at mocking people.  When several students in the class seek refuge in the hallway or washroom to cry, there is a problem.  Students were singled out and even mocked for asking questions. Horrid.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Thanks for "teaching us" ukulele - (Not) and then expecting us to show we memorized 5 songs. 
(wed bring our ukuleles to class and after the first month of class he just stopped getting us to play / or he would get us to play for 5 min in the 1hr 30 min class. It was annoying lugging it around if we weren't even going to touch it that day)