I go to Berklee and I love it here. There are some amazing players and teachers here, but they just don’t work for me after having taken lessons with my teacher, Bob Thompson, for over a year. I end up translating everything they tell me to what Bob would tell me, and most of the time I can find everything I’ve worked on in my binder of stuff from Bob (He also makes sure I record my lessons). When I don’t feel motivated to practice what I’m given to work on, I don’t think of how my current teacher would react, I think of how Bob would react and what he’d say.

Part of me can’t wait for the semester to end so I can go home and take lessons with Bob again. I can get better faster for less money in four months of lessons over the summer with Bob than I can here in a year.

And I always pay in cash :)