Just to get this "Blog" thing off the ground I thought I might throw out a few of the philosophic concepts I like to share with my students, after all I do claim to teach "music philosophy" in addition to music theory.

1. Perfection is not an option. No matter how hard you try you will not play/sing/perform perfectly. There is only One who is perfect and you are not Him. Your job as a student/player is to learn, and your job as a teacher is to teach, the ability to compensate, to learn to improvise over your mistakes, to, as a colloquism, CYA. That, I would purpose, is the distinction between "players" and true musicians.

2. As put so well by Dr. Ron Lefebvre, the speaker at the commencement ceremony when I receive my doctorate, "Our job as teachers is to make you [the student] better than us". That should be the purpose of every teacher...and should be the goal of any student.

3. I must admit I can't turn someone into a musician/singer/performer in 1/2 to 1 hour a week, but I can provide the tools and guidance for them to turn themselves into the musician they are destined to be. LIGHT A FIRE!!

Doc Fleetwood