19:, LLC is an online music learning education platform based out of Napa, CA. ArtistWorks was founded by David and Patricia Butler in 2008. The company developed a proprietary patented system for interacting with teachers based upon online Video Exchange Learning which students use to upload videos of themselves playing and ArtistWorks instructors respond with video feedback with both videos paired together and made visible for all students in the online course.
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January 2019. The company hosted the Big Jazz Giveaway with John Patitucci, George Whitty, Eric Marienthal and Peter Erskine in April 2019 and the Big Bluegrass Virtual Masterclass with Mike Marshall, Tony Trischka and Michael Daves in July 2019. In December 2019 the company will host a guitar getaway and master class featuring Nathan East, Guthrie Trapp and Keith Wyatt.
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Exchange Learning® platform in 2008. The first patent (US 9,165,473) that was issued in June 2015 provides for online students of any subject to learn from an online video lesson library that has within
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Exchange Learning® platform teaches music to learners within 35 different music courses offered at ArtistWorks, LLC although the underlying concept of the patented system is subject agnostic.
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