About TrueFire Studios
The TrueFire Studios
Education Team
The TrueFire Studios Education Team is led by four people who’ve spent their careers building TrueFire and ArtistWorks’ interactive music education video lessons, courses, and schools. They bring their collective music education expertise to every blog article we publish.
The team behind 25+ years of online music education
TrueFire and ArtistWorks have been producing interactive music education since 1999. The Education Team is the group that’s been behind that work — designing curriculum, producing lessons, directing educators, managing the production pipeline, and ensuring instructional quality across all of the schools, courses, and lessons in our library.
Each member’s favorite work links directly into the TrueFire and ArtistWorks catalogs — the most direct way to show what they actually do.
Tommy Jamin
VP, Content Development · 15 years at TrueFire
VP of Content Development at TrueFire Studios. Shapes how TrueFire courses get made, guiding lesson sequencing, on-camera instruction, and production standards so every educator’s curriculum lands clearly with learners at every level.
Marcus Luscombe
Senior Producer & Director · 15 years at TrueFire
Senior Producer & Director at TrueFire Studios. Leads production on ArtistWorks Schools, the platform’s deepest curriculum projects, partnering with master educators across months of planning and filming to build career-spanning instructional libraries.
Jeff Scheetz
Director of Education · 18 years at TrueFire
Director of Education at TrueFire Studios. Sets pedagogical standards across the catalog, reviewing curriculum design, learner progression, and instructional quality so every course meets the bar before it reaches students.
Brad Wendkos
Founder · Since 1999
TrueFire Founder. Launched the platform in 1999 and built it into the world’s most comprehensive guitar education library, guiding creative direction and instructional standards across every course produced since.
Our editorial standards
The principles that guide every editing decision.
Accuracy first
Every technique, recommendation, and historical claim is fact-checked against authoritative sources. We update articles when better information emerges.
Instructional integrity
We don’t publish advice we wouldn’t give a student in person. If a shortcut creates bad habits down the road, we say so.
Expert attribution
Every expert quote and featured contribution is attributed clearly, with full credentials and links to the contributor’s work.
Corrections welcome
If you find an error, write to us. We update articles publicly, with a “Corrected on” note added to the byline.
How TrueFire blog articles get made
Transparency about process is how readers know they can trust what they read. Here’s exactly how every TrueFire article moves from idea to publication.
Topic & outline
The Education Team selects topics based on what learners struggle with or might be interested in learning more about.
Research & draft
A variety of search and LLM tools assist with research and content generation, guided by team-written outlines and our editorial standards.
Team preview
A team member fact-checks, validates instructional accuracy, chooses the featured educator, adds expert video content, and rewrites where needed.
Final approval
Two-team-member sign-off on every article before publication. Articles update over time as best practices evolve or corrections are required.
How we use search and LLM tools
We use search and LLM tools to help with research synthesis and first-draft generation, guided by team-written outlines and our editorial standards. Every article is then reviewed, fact-checked, edited, and approved by a member of our education team before publication. No article publishes under a TrueFire byline without team sign-off.
Reach the education team
Found an error, have a topic suggestion, or want to feature your expertise in an upcoming article?