Paul Franklin 1 year Video Course

[Jeffery Mercer]

If Anyone is interested …You can sign up for a (1) year Basic Pedal Steel Guitar Course taught by Paul Franklin for $99.00

[Curt Langston]

And how are they?

[Jeffery Mercer]

Removed

[Allan Haley]

Where did you purchase these? I'm willing to spend some $. Easier than practicing.

[Jerry Horch]

They are on the D’Addario web sight…..

[Dave Mudgett]

If anyone is confused, this thread started out about the Paul Franklin finger picks, that are produced and marketed by D'Addario.

The OP changed the topic to the Paul Franklin course, which I do not believe can be purchased on the D'Addario website.

[Tom Spaulding]

Paul Franklin Foundations: E9 Pedal Steel Basics 12-month $99 Beginner Course

Paul Franklin Signature National Picks Nickel-plated Brass National Picks

[Dave Mudgett]

Thanks for the clarification, Tom.

[Bill McCloskey]

I got to stop taking the brown acid.

[HowardR]

[Jay Coover]

If Anyone is interested …You can sign up for a (1) year Basic Pedal Steel Guitar Course taught by Paul Franklin for $99.00

I'm sure it's great. Love the man, love the playing, love the songs.

My 2 cents though. Cuz I'm slow.

I am averse to paying for something like this continuously that is time limited. You have to keep paying if you might need it later.

Doesn't really apply to the beginner course, but what if two years from now I want to learn something in one of those courses that I hadn't already learned? Gotta pay all over again. Many other courses are similar so it's not just Paul's. I would have rather it were done differently, but it's a free country, so...

[Bill McCloskey]

Paul has stand alone courses that you make a one time purchase for.

[Jay Coover]

Paul has stand alone courses that you make a one time purchase for.

It might be apparent which are which (but it's not exactly posted up front I think, haven't been there in a while), but why is there a difference? Again, it's a free economy, I choose to participate on my perception of value.

My most favorite thing in the world is when I pay for something, I get to use it forever. My children 2nd favorite behind that. Kidding.

[Bill McCloskey]

The stand alone courses are organized around the collaborations he did with Vince Gill: Bakersfield and Sweet Memories. One course teaches all the licks ,intro, and solos for Bakersfield and one has the licks, intro and solos for sweet memories. You can buy those as stand alone courses.

The other courses constantly have new lessons added, so there no end to the renewable courses: they just keep adding lessons to the E9th course and the C6th course.

[Tom Spaulding]

Paul has stand alone courses that you make a one time purchase for.

It might be apparent which are which (but it's not exactly posted up front I think, haven't been there in a while), but why is there a difference? Again, it's a free economy, I choose to participate on my perception of value.

My most favorite thing in the world is when I pay for something, I get to use it forever. My children 2nd favorite behind that. Kidding.

Perceived value is indeed personal and absolutely understandable. Here's some up-to-date info on the what, how and why of our courses:

THE PAUL FRANKLIN METHOD
Students can choose to enroll in The Paul Franklin Method for $575 per year, 3 months at a time for $149, or a month at a time for $49. All plans get access to Paul's Facebook Group.

The $49 option is cancel anytime, re-join anytime and allows unlimited access to all of the PFM content when enrolled. If you need time off, when you come back there will be even more content.

Students are not paying for a product, they are paying for access to a virtual classroom with the #1 goal of learning how to play the instrument. That's what the Method is all about. It's intended to be an interactive, focused and dedicated learning environment.

All of the PFM Practice Tracks, Backing Tracks, TABs and PDFs are downloadable.

There are 550+ lessons at this point, many years of study if a student started today.

THE $99 COURSES
The 12-month $99 courses (E9 Foundations, E9 Applications, C6 Essentials, C6 Toolbox) are smaller, curated collections of lessons taken from the Method and aimed at specific skill/experience levels - Beginners and Intermediates mostly - with plenty of time to complete them if studied diligently.

The enrollment cost for any $99 course can be applied at any time towards access to the full Paul Franklin Method.

Instead of $49/month for 550 lessons, for $99/year E9 Foundations students can pay what amounts to around $8/month to learn the Basics without distractions. If they then take the E9 Applications course, they get another year's access to the E9 Foundations course material at no extra charge. If, after they complete the Applications course they wanted to join the Paul Franklin Method, they would have $198 credit toward enrollment.

The bottom line is "limited access for a longer time period", a combination that seems to suit most beginning students and helps them progress faster. If E9 Foundations is as far as a student wants to go, they just got a year of lessons with Paul Franklin for $99. That's tough to beat. If they want to continue on, they get $99 in credit toward the Method.

THE STAND-ALONE COURSES
The stand alone/no expiration courses (e.g. "West Coast Country", "Texas Country", "E9 Vocabulary") are transcriptions by Paul of his own playing, and are real-world examples of what is possible once you learn the instrument and bring your own creativity to it.

The lessons assume you have the necessary technique to play them, and the theory knowledge/ability to analyze the parts to the point that you can adapt them and make them your own, if so desired. There is some teaching of specific techniques used in the licks or solos, but more time is spent demoing the parts, the expressive nuances used and explaining the thought process behind them. All of that music is the result of learning the instrument via the way the Paul and his Method teaches it.

I appreciate the opportunity explain how we set up the Method and all of the access options that are now available. Every lesson added increases the value, but not the cost.

[Bill McCloskey]

Here is another way to put it. I could take my wife out for a nice meal for what it costs to study with Paul all day long for a year.


the food is long gone


the learned instruction is forever.