Not everyone is Mozart

Recently I've been getting quite a few request to teach guitar from absolute newbies to some basic strummers alike. While I'd been toying with the idea for a while as I like to show the way to help people find themselves, I've been postponing it because teaching is strenuous if one were to really do a good job of it.

Like most things I end up doing, I don't like superficial attempts. In fact I hate it when it comes to lip services. So I am still toying with the thought, to do or not to do as time would be a constraint.

In any case, some of the would be studes fav bit had been I would like create great songs like that band or this guitarist, but then, I just don't want to apply myself to learn music. The quip being if Mark Knopfler did not learn why should I. First and foremost, I am not so sure, whether its true that Mark Knopfler did not study music. Its impossible to believe. And second even if that's true there's only one Mark Knopfler. So the choice is, you want to noodle like a poodle with your guitar and live in a dream that you are good (an maybe for life) or work on it and get to the best YOU CAN BE. Just to be specific, according to me, learning music is not about learning to read. Learning is a process of understanding how music works. Its a beautiful and complex subject but the brilliant musicians are the ones who managed to find simplicity in the complexity to reach to large audiences. And I for one am very far from that. Still learning and miles to go.

So the quote there was only one Mozart stands true. Are you one? And you really believe it? All the best in escapism and laziness in the name sermons.