When The Student Is Ready The Teacher Will Appear

A Great Teacher Can Make All The Difference!

The difference between regular music lessons and expert music lessons

Many people take music lessons each year in Toronto and Scarborough, yet there is a very significant range in the musical and learning experience for each of these students.

Why do some students soar while others move along at more modest rates?

Why do some musicians play beautifully while others appear uninspired?

Why do some musicians feel tremendous fulfillment playing music while others may not?

A large part of the answer to these questions does lie in the student. Student attitude, aptitude and readiness to learn play a large part. ( Aptitude is actually the least of these in my experience, contrary to popular belief/myth, and is the subject of another article ).

An Often Hidden Key to Success

A huge key to success actually lies in the teacher herself. A great, not very good but GREAT, teacher's ability to inspire, coach, and lead a musician to those magical depths that exist within the music and within the player himself plays a very FUNDAMENTAL role in the success of each musician.

Great musicians, whether at amateur or professional level, are very often the effect of a world-class teacher. Look at the great composers and players throughout time, many of these studied with not just very good, but truly great teachers.

What makes a truly great teacher? The ability to inspire and discover the greatness and the music that lies within EACH student. Each musician has a unique voice and ability that no one else has. A master teacher can bring this out.

For those who wish to save much time ( and money ), the answer lies in finding the best teacher/coach who can help you compress decades of learning into years.

Not just doing is 'right' but doing it great the first time is infinitely more efficient than slowly climbing the ladder.

Many musicians find that this difference makes ALL the difference in their musical experience.

Do you wish to learn music, or learn MUSIC? There is a difference.

If music and learning music is important to you, the responsibility is not with your teacher, it is with YOU to take the time and find the very best teacher for YOU.

I believe that great music is inside each and every individual who has the desire for it. This inborn desire is the defining cause that sets this discovery into motion.

What happens with this desire is up to you.

Truly great music awaits.

These lessons are about helping you find YOUR OWN musical voice and unleashing this gift within you to share with your loved ones and the world.

Keep singing and playing,
Paul Gasztold