Dear Guitar Students, PLEASE Do This!!! (at least once)

What's wrong with everyone? Mike, of the art of the

guitar

, just a brief history for you. I have a student who has been working on a song for about four months. No joke, he comes every week and he barely practices what I give him each time. he gets a little better and then he drops a little, he's a little better and it's just

this

ongoing process and I finally lost him today. I rarely lose my temper, but I was so frustrated that I told him, you know what, I'm sick. of

this

song, I already finished showing it to you and he looked very surprised and I'm surprised and I say: you know what would be really good?

I started to get a little angry. I wonder if you would just walk in. a week and you surprised me, it would be cool if you sat down and said, hey Mike, look at this, remember the song we're working on, here we go and you rip it up like it was nothing, I'd probably fall to the floor. a heart attack it would be great if all my

students

could hear this message of if you could surprise me at

least

once

, you know, surprise me, come someday after a lesson and show me that you worked on what we did and then go beyond that, say oh, by the way, then I learned that you can play it here and you can do it here and you can do it in this song and then I went online and looked up more stuff and that would be like that. refreshing, but I'm just telling you it doesn't happen these days.

I don't see it, it's almost like people are doing the bare minimum to survive, almost like you would do if you were an average student in In school I was like, "Okay, you have to do this homework, okay, and I barely do it." you finish, you don't really learn anything, you're just memorizing, you know, I feel like a lot of people do that with the

guitar

and that puts me off." because you may not even be aware of what you are capable of doing on the guitar because you have never done anything like push yourself, even if it was just for a week, so I have a little challenge for you if you take private lessons with Yo or anyone else person surprises us only

once

.

Well, let's say you normally practice one hour a week, which would be a little sad, but you know that even one hour a week is asking a lot. Some people, unfortunately, try to practice one hour a day. for a week and see what happens and if you already practice an hour a day, it would be great to make it two hours, two and a half hours, three hours, whatever, you can do one day only during that week and I'll tell you. Not only will you surprise your guitar teacher, they will be scared, you will also surprise yourself.

You may not realize what you are capable of until you really focus your attention like a laser beam, so I urge you to try. Do it and prove to yourself that you can do this because someday in the future, let's say you even gave up the guitar, you will never play again, well, maybe a decade from now you will look back and be gone, you know, I never got to be cool but there was At one point I practiced hard for a week and man I made radical improvements in my playing and then you can apply that philosophy if you go back to the guitar or you can apply it to anything you do in your life and you can see that.

It's really possible to overcome those obstacles, a lot of people start having difficulties with the guitar and just put it aside, that makes me sad because in my opinion, the people who get the best are the ones who succeed. about that and they really wait for difficult situations to be able to overcome them. I always see it as a big wall. You know there's a high wall you have to climb and some people start to feel the pain of climbing and just give up. They get up immediately, but it is the ones who overcome that wall who feel the greatest benefit and it is those people who make the most of the guitar and really enjoy playing and the funny thing is that all the people who give up down here They always say: Oh, you're lucky, you know nothing to do with luck, they just got over the wall, they just got through it, usually with consistency, often driven by some kind of passion, but this challenge this week is just surprising your teacher and if you don't you have a private teacher, do it anyway on your own and see what you can really do in a week.

It's like when you work out, sometimes you think I could never do 100 push-ups and then something I don't do. You know, maybe you see a terrible photo of yourself, there's someone you like and you want to impress and you just have this burning desire for a big bang and the next thing you know you've done 100 push-ups in a row and you're like me. I never thought I could do that, so I want to bring that kind of feeling to your guitar playing. Shock the world. Shock your teacher. Surprise yourself and really prove to yourself that you can do great things.

You just need a little attention. That's okay, and maybe even try a little. Okay, thanks everyone for watching. I have a lot of videos coming up and last night I had a big breakthrough. I had all these ideas for new videos, so they should be out soon. We'll be keeping an eye out for a number of new artists as well as a ton of new videos at the end of the guitar communication. Alright guys, thanks for watching, bye.