Reviews of professor Matthew Larocca

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Fun class and an easy professor. Just show up and it's easy to stay engaged with his teaching style. We mostly worked on scales, intervals, & sight reading. He will call on you. Very little work outside of class. 

He also gave us the PDF for the textbook so we didn't have to buy anything which was nice since it's a 1 credit class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Larocca's lectures are very engaging. If you pay attention during class and do your homework you should do just fine.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
LaRocca is the man! I have had him for both MU009 and MU060 and have thoroughly enjoyed both of his classes; Go to the classes every day, easy content to understand with practice, you'll end up laughing every lecture then you'll walk out with a good grade at the end.  Highly recommend!!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Matt is a great professor. He makes the content easy to understand, even for non-music majors. Would definitely recommend taking a class with him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Music theory is fun with Matt. He's a great musician and knows a ton about music. Attendance is mandatory, but the tests are easy as long as you come to class. Homework are completion only with the online textbook and Noteflight assignments are easy. He's funny!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
LaRocca is a G he's always crackihng jokes and making everyone in the class laugh. My class with him is first thing in the morning and it always starts my day off on a good note. The content is hard and requires effort and practice to understand but he does an amazing job of explaining anything if you are confused. He gives practice quizzes too :)

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He knows what he's doing, but hes not very flexible. I joined the class late because of administrational reasons. I tore my acl partially and then later on completely. He gave little-to-no leeway on assignments that i missed because of hospital visits. He tends to find a few students to pick on throughout the semester. Lectures are decent tho.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
It was a great class and the prof sets you up for success. Weekly homework that takes about an hour or two and quizzes every couple of weeks. At times I found music theory to be impossibly hard - but I had zero prior experience and took it as an elective, so if you have a musical background it will be a pretty easy class.