My last student of the night was Mike on guitar. It ended up being a perfect example of aligning his lesson to his goals, and I wanted to share that with you.
He came to his lesson feeling good about what he had practiced that week. He looked happy, but not REAL happy, so I dug into his “head” to see where he was at.
He was tracking with what he was learning, but really needed the scales and chords and technical stuff to directly relate to a particular song and we hadn’t done that yet. Fine. So I had him pull out his iPhone and play me a few songs he liked, picked one that was in the same “key” as something that was on his lesson and said, “Let’s apply everything tho this song.”
He said, “Great!”
Well… I related everything on his lesson to some part of the song: the theory, chords, rhythm and ear training. Then I taught him the opening guitar lick… and he blew out.
Super happy.
That’s how I like to end a lesson!
MB
