One short video — up to 3 minutes — of you playing whatever you're working on right now.

You can let me know in the video if there's something specific you need help with (a tricky spot, timing, hands together) or ask a question.

⚠️Start every message with #COACHBACK – Your Name so I can find your entry⚠️

Then list what you will be playing.

For example: Amazing Grace, Minuet in G A1, C Major scale

Like this:

#COACHBACK – Jane Wilson

Passacaglia A2, Minuet in G, G Major

Keep it to 3 minutes or less — just play once through the section(s) you're working on.

⚠️ If your clip runs longer than 3 minutes, please trim it down before sending. Stacey reviews every video personally, and clips longer than 3 minutes may be too long for her to review.

The point is to keep them short so they’re easy for you to record and easy for her to review.

It depends on your membership, and it's always "use it or lose it" — reviews don't stack or roll forward:

Piano Skool Club: 1 review every 28-day cycle. Send one video per cycle; if you send more, I review the first and you save the rest for next cycle.

Year-One: 48 reviews a year — one for each teaching week. Send a video that week, you get a review that week; skip a week and that one's gone.

CoachBack is a member benefit, so you'll need an active Club or Year-One membership for me to review your videos.

No problem — there’s an email fallback.

Upload the video to a free service — YouTube as “Unlisted,” Google Drive (make sure you grant "viewing access"), Loom, or Dropbox — then email them to:

[email protected]

Subject line:

#Coachback – Your Name

First line of your email:

#COACHBACK – Your Name

Below that: Paste your video link / attach your video

That’s it. Same review timeline, same feedback.

WhatsApp is faster for me to review because videos open right inside the chat, but email + links work too.

Pick whichever is easier for you.

You can send your video anytime during the week — Stacey reviews all CoachBack videos weekly.

The flow:

1. You send your video anytime that week (WhatsApp or email).

2. You get an instant reply confirming it arrived — "Got your video! Queued for this week's review." No need to reply or confirm anything.

3. You're on Stacey's review list for that week.

4. Your feedback video comes back on the same channel you sent it from, usually within about 24–48 hours of the weekly review (usually on Mondays).

The weekly cutoff is Sunday 11:59 pm CT — anything she gets by then is in that week's review session; anything after simply rolls into the next week.

So no rush to catch a certain day, just get it in before Sunday night.

Not even close.

Play it once, start to finish, mistakes and all.

I want to see how you really play right now so I can give you the one fix that helps most — not a polished performance.