"Great seminar! I would recommend this course to every student."
- Carlos Campos - Instructor, Berklee College of Music
"From novice to musician in a weekend." - Boston Globe
"Demystifies music." - Daily Journal
"Fanfare for the common man. Start spreading the news. " - Herald Sun
"Lorien's great gift is the ability to make simple what had seemed complex."
- Roslyn Guy, Arts Editor, The Age
"I salute you! " - Ron Payne, Editor of The Australian Music Teacher
"If you have any doubts, take it from someone who may appear not to need it. DO DUNCAN'S COURSE!" - Geoff Levin (film composer)
"Awe-inspiring experience. I achieved something I never thought possible this lifetime and thank you for that." - Lee Rogers, filmaker
"I think I'll go home and write a few songs." - Erika Christensen
"The most amazing experience. Wow! Seriously, up there with meeting my new-born for the first time. I had an actual physical reaction to the seminar which was pretty wild. I wear glasses or contact lenses and at one point it felt as though my eyes were out of focus or rather my lenses were too strong. I actually had to remove them as it felt as though my eyesight suddenly markedly had improved! I loved this experience and wish for everyone I know to share this with me." - Kate Ceberano
"Anyone seriously interested in playing should take this seminar."
- Magic Dick, J. Geils Band
"I finally received what I never got at ******* college of music."
- Roderick Camelia, guitar teacher
"This experience has blown my mind. I have been got at (in the past) by self-important music secret-policemen, keepers of the codes who made me feel squashed and stupid because I didn't get the 'dots and lines and squiggily stuff''. I can now learn this stuff in a way that works and is real to me. It makes me feel very in the present and powerful. Funny, coming from someone who has made a living out of music for 20 years!" - Phil Ceberano
"Probably the most honest music seminar on the planet. I learned more in two days than I did in the last eight years." - John Fordham
"My success story is that I UNDERSTAND music and possess the skills to be able to translate my understanding into any and every facet of my life."
- Bobby Amin
"This seminar has given me my life back." - Scott Fletcher, guitarist
"I highly recommend it." - Bill Shanley, guitarist (Mary Black band)
"It took me five years to reach a point equal to the first few hours of this course. There is nothing comparable to this data in the field of music." - Billy Van Horn
"I feel renovated and a great need to communicate through music again."
- Georges Phillipart - Bassoonist, Venezuelan symphony orchestra
"I have taught music for thirty years and would not have believed this possible in one weekend but it really, really is!" - Andrej Mentschukoff
"Unbelievable to have fourteen years of information clarified so that I can pursue what I've always wanted to do; make music. Thank you so much."
- Corneille Hutten-Burger, classical guitarist.
"I extracted more from the information and material than in all the time at ******* (music college)." - Peter Corona, analyst
"This phenomena must be passed on. Truly amazing and it shows that the human mind is only what youy choose to make it. Not only a music lesson but a lesson of life." - Samuel Boon
"The course material, the presentation, the surrounding organization, but most of all Duncan, are the most caring, inspiring, dedicated, thought-provoking, comprehensive, understandable, accessible, fun and exciting learning experience I have ever had." - Stuart Begg
"It has opened a whole new world to me" - Riaan Venter, logistics analyst
"This is a prelude to music literacy for society." - John Delievet
"The name of Duncan Lorien should be spoken about in the same breath as all great revolutionaries." - Ben Rudnick
"I have experienced the two most happy days of my life." - Willie Saril
"It out-distanced anything I could have imagined." - Bennett Weber
"Mr. Lorien will be in the books of discoveries." - Randy Ramos
"I went to ******* college of music for four years and accumulated a lot of confusion while I was there. This weekend de-mystified my musical education."
- Kelly Riley, recording artist and vocal instructor
"I was blown away by this course. Finally after 10 years I can see the mysteries of music. When I look at a piece of music I now see notes and other symbols not squiggles, THANK YOU!" - Daniel Slattery
"After twenty years of self-study the veil has been lifted." - Robert L. Olsen
"It has got rid of a BIG BLACK HOLE which has held me back all these years.." - Bert Gale
"This seminar totally changed my viewpoint on music and life." - Teresa Ray
"This seminar is not only a must for everyone interested in music - whether you are a beginner or a pro - it's actually life-changing in so many other areas of life. Move over Dixie Chicks, I'm a'comin' !!!! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you."
- Gay Johnson
"This seminar is exactly what it says it is." - Ron Klipstein
"I didn't just learn about music. What I've learned applies to all areas of my life."
- Sandy Hendricks, singer
"I cannot put into words the value of what this seminar actually does. My view of what I can do has broadened remakably. I could become a studio musician if I wanted, maybe I will. I could teach anyone. I could get out and play again like I always wanted. It is possible. Thank you Duncan." - Nigel Vennell
"This is a gift to mankind." - Uli Sommer
"I learned an amazing amount about the simplicity of music and I will be able to enjoy music much more than I have before." - Mike Fullager, entrepreneur
"I've fulfilled my life-long dream of learning how to play a musical instrument."
- Monitar Tan
"It's the simplified version of music I've been looking for." - Gavin Almezda
"A new world presented which has eluded me all my life." - Ken Humphries
"An absolute voyage of discovery." - Adriaan Bekker, financial manager
"Thank you for all the freedom you have given to my mind and heart."
- Roger Schweizer, sculptor
"From 0% to a 100% in three days! And all with lots of fun."- Andreas Fuchs
"This seminar is truly exchange in abundance." - Miriam Hodosy
"Thanks a million Duncan." - Alan Ryan, commercial artist
"After playing the guitar and keyboard for twenty years I had my eyes opened for the first time by this seminar." - Ward Stevens, chiropractor
"Thank you Duncan for giving me back my life." - Peter Ruane, opera singer
"I understand and can play and really read music. This is miraculous but true."
- Deborah Dunham, artist
"This weekend has been one of the most rewarding things I have done for myself in my entire life." - Susan Renee Cotton
"By the end I knew I could play any instrument I wanted to." - Helen Cruse
"It was the most incredible thing I have ever done." - Jessica Messsner
"This seminar cleared up about forty years of confusions, misunderstandings and falsehoods about music and its development. This resulted in an education level with music that I thought was beyond reach." - Dave Kline, violinist
"In the future people will talk about the man who changed music education forever, Duncan R. Lorien, and I will be able to say I was at the grass-roots of that movement." - Tara Layton, painter and graphic designer
"Everything I have been looking for, missing and even avoiding, the seminar has brought the knowledge to my hands." - Mauricio Sanmartin, pan-pipe player
"I learned so many things in addition to what I expected." - Trudy Gertsen
"This is a pure demonstration of the power of simplicity." - Ofra Friedman
"The number of doors that have opened for me in these two days in the fields of understanding and creativity are uncountable." - Marco Errath
"This seminar is stupendous!" - Sylvia Coward, personal trainer
"I have loved every minute of doing this seminar." - Debbie James
"Incredible, it was far, far more than I ever expected."- Alymer Stander
"I now know I'm going to play any instument I want." - Silvia Soltesz
"This seminar is priceless." - Steve Littler, consultant
"After years of playing music, three of them professionally, this course has blown my mind! I am so inspired to restart my musical career." - Ludwig Bouwer
"It was everything that was promised and more." - Hermann Heukelman
"One word comes to mind.......Wow!!!" - Avara Pearson, opera singer
"In just two days I've reached a level of understanding I thought I'd never be able to get in this life." - David Vannier, manager
"The seminar stripped away the frustrations of music and music practice as a kid." - Emily Miller, consultant
"When I got back home I took off like a rocket. Thanks for a great seminar. Your energy and enthusiasm is infectious." - Stephen Alpert, composer and producer
"I've been playing music for twenty years and I never thought I could know all this. It's astounding and beyond." - James Kolousek, musician
"This is the best teaching in music I have had in my life." - Rita Stockmayr
"It has been said that a star is born every minute but with Duncan Lorien one is actually made every weekend." - Dan Rezac
"Brilliant, simply brilliant!!" - Brett Stevens, chiropractor
"All the mystery has been cleared up and the light now shines brightly."
- Michael Dodge, recording engineer
"This was a breathtaking seminar." - Adrian Pownall, singer
"I have a new feeling about the subject of music and it has opened the door to an infinity of creations." - Frank Fischer, composer
"Thank you for this incredible gift to the world of music and music lovers." -
Stephan Gebhardt-Seele, saxophonist
"You have demonstrated that music is for everyone." - Daniel Thomson
"Thank you Duncan for what you are doing!" - Amanda "Princess" Diepold
"In one weekend you have solved a veritable Rubic's cube of music that has kept me puzzled and frustrated for the past forty years." - Richard Rotella, doctor
"I never had any hope of becoming an actual musician. I now know I have the physical and mental tools to become one." - Roger Schutt, lyricist
"I am 100% certain that I have every tool I need to do whatever I wish in music." - Mark Krajewski, sales consultant
"I am five years younger as a result of your seminar." - James Keppler
