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”
Why Your Recitals Are a Band-Aid (And What to Do Instead) Picture a parent standing in the back of a recital hall. No seat. Phone held high over the heads of the row in front of her, trying to catch 90 seconds of shaky video. The lighting is bad. The audio is worse. Her son … Continue reading “Recitals Are Band-Aids: Why Music Schools Are Solving the Wrong Problem | EP 282”
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