Video - First Song Lesson 6

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Here is a clip of my students first time singing and playing a song. This was during our 6th lesson. It is these moments that there are no criteria. I simply let the student play and have fun with it regardless of the flaws. The idea is to build confidence as my student had never done that before. If she feels excited about how it felt (which she did) she is likely to go home and practice it more. With some refinement through our exercises we will be able to eliminate many flaws and allow the student to focus on creating as opposed to practicing. The excitement of how it feels to be able to perform music is in itself the motivating factor with the guitar and is something that becomes arbitrary as we master the instrument more and more. We begin to forget how it felt the first time we were able to sing over music we were playing. The satisfaction of feeling like we had accomplished something that seemed relatively impossible before.