When you start teaching, you really have no idea what to expect.  You imagine that you’ll be working with students on the kind of highbrow topics you studied in university. My childhood guitar teacher told me how he inherited a student from his dad, also a career teacher.  But you don’t start out imagining what a 

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They say it takes 10,000 hours to master an instrument.  I’ve definitely played more than 10,000 hours in my 37 years as a guitarist, bassist, keyboardist and drummer.  But what I didn’t anticipate when I embarked on a professional music career in 1991 was spending 25,000 hours (and counting) teaching.  Teaching music is the only full-time 

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