{"id":831,"date":"2020-02-15T23:01:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T23:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycguitarlessons.com\/?p=831"},"modified":"2021-10-19T15:55:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T15:55:58","slug":"my-thoughts-on-finding-great-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycguitarlessons.com\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"My thoughts on finding great teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25.4&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.25.4&#8243; border_width_all=&#8221;-2px&#8221; border_width_right=&#8221;2px&#8221; border_color_right=&#8221;#e02b20&#8243; border_width_left=&#8221;2px&#8221; border_color_left=&#8221;#e02b20&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25.4&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.9&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>After teaching for 30 plus years I have many times gotten a new student who has been previously taking lessons from another teacher.\u00a0 After talking and hearing them play its sad to me to see that my new student, after month and sometimes years of lessons, can not play a full song,\u00a0 just pieces of many songs, can&#8217;t read music and wasn&#8217;t taught any simple rudiments of music or ear training or correct technique.\u00a0 My small input for anyone playing any instrument,\u00a0 If you can&#8217;t play a full song,\u00a0 read or fully understand music after even a few months, do move on and find a new teacher,\u00a0 I have seen it too many times where I am actually teaching someone who&#8217;s been playing for a while,\u00a0 as a beginner.\u00a0 I\u00a0 put all these pieces together from lesson one.\u00a0 So in a very short while they are playing full songs they love,\u00a0 and if they want to have ear training and theory to really understand how music works (great for soloists and songwriters etc.) to really grow and enjoy playing the guitar and music on any instrument.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After teaching for 30 plus years I have many times gotten a new student who has been previously taking lessons from another teacher.\u00a0 After talking and hearing them play its sad to me to see that my new student, after month and sometimes years of lessons, can not play a full song,\u00a0 just pieces of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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