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What difference does it make how fast he is improving? Music isn't a race, it's a journey.
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I paid the originator guitar instructor $90/hour. I could have paid him $60/hour but I like to help out musicians and I really like the instructor personally. I can afford the $90/hour rate. Unfortunately, he got a working gig in Los Angeles so he had to leave. Before leaving, he recommended a good friend of his to teach my son guitar. The new instructor graduated from Berklee school music in 2015. I also like the new instructor on a personal level. I also pay him $90/hour. I also agree that having three times a week is too much but I want to help out the instructor and I can also afford it. My son really likes to have him around. He is also serving as a mentor to my son. |
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Hi, thank you for your feedback. I did get a 2nd opinion from another instructor and after watching my son play, he said that the instructor does the right thing. |
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I had a couple of thoughts reading this thread. First, your son is doing very well with so little time on the instrument, even as an experienced musician. Second, it's not a competition. Pressuring him will not make him love the instrument any more, and I get a strong sense of pressure or expectation from your posts. Third, no one can practice for two hours at a time and benefit from the entire two hours. It's well proven that 20 minutes is the optimum time to "practice" at a time at anything, with a break, change of focus or simply stopping for a rest, then starting again. Finally, the point of playing guitar is not to dramatically improve, as though it was a race, it's to make music - art, if you will - and enjoy, relax, meditate, contemplate. Skill and excellence comes from love of the music, and time on the instrument, measured in years, not weeks.
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