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What a Bored 8-Year-Old Taught Me About Getting Kids to Practice | EP 287

Podcast Episode - July 20, 2026

I want to tell you about a student I taught years ago named Marcus. He was eight when he started guitar with me, and for the first month he was the dream student. He loved learning songs from his favorite video games and movies, and every lesson, before anything else, he’d play the bass line … Continue reading “What a Bored 8-Year-Old Taught Me About Getting Kids to Practice | EP 287”