|
Shawn Brock -> RE: Would you like to have Jason McGuire back on foroflamenco? (Jan. 24 2012 21:30:56)
|
Alright... You guys have changed my mind... I will sell my house and all belongings and put the money into taking lessons from Jason. Then I can play flamenco on the streets like a true gipsy, or if I'm lucky, in an eatery that don't mind homeless people.
Reading and comprehension aren't strong points for some people... As I have stated more than once, the man can charge what ever he wants... That's not my business or problem...
A few other points:
If it costs you $5000 to take a trip to Spain, you must be taking a long trip or living high on the hog while your there, or you don't do any comparison shopping. I just bought a ticket and made hotel reservations for a trip in May, and my flight was only $600... I will get back home spending a lot less than $5000 unless I go guitar shopping... In addition to that even if a trip to Spain did cost me $5000, 18 hours of lessons from Jason would have cost me $1350, plus the flight and motel. So when you do the math I would have spent more than a third of the price on a trip to CA than I would a $5000 trip to Spain...
Point 2 for MR. Sanford is, I never thought I could pick up all of what Jason knows in 6 hours per day. It seems a little childish for you to try to imagine what the tone of my email to Jason was, because after all, I have already stated that I will never be the guitarist Jason is. That's where the reading and comprehension part comes in. Either you didn't read my message or have selective memory about what I wrote. Or perhaps your just trying to stir me up a little. Either way is cool. I just want to state one more time that I'll never be what Jason is, and I respect his abilities. Or maybe I should say your abilities...
Maybe his messages were sent from an iPhone or iPad, and that's why they were so short, I don't truthfully know. Maybe that's just the way he is, right to the point with little communication. If that theory is correct all I can say is that it may not be the best way to interact with people if you do want to get paid from them for teaching. Seeing that Jason stopped giving lessons supposedly, it makes no difference. Also being that he is quite busy with many other things I'm sure that he didn't need my money or business to get by.
Point 3 is that I understand how musicians get paid, after all, that's what I do for a living. To compare it to employees who have benefits paid for them by a company is not quite fare. Even throughout my time when I was a strong member of the AFM, we never got the kind of benefits that 9 to 5 people get. Its a choice you make... If my wife wasn't employed with a large corporation with good health benefits, I probably would have had to think of getting out of the music business. Trust me, being a musician is a lot different when you count on it for a living than when you are doing it as a hobby, and doing it for a living takes a lot of fun out of it.
Lastly, learning flamenco person to person is the only way to go. Lots of people including myself don't have the opportunity to study with a great flamenco guitarist, and it makes a big difference when you can. Lesson videos are great, but you'll only get so much mileage out of them. Its almost a given that what small bad habits you have won't be covered in the video, because the video can't cover every possible way to play or not play something. After all, this is why I wanted to take the trip up to get lessons from Jason.
Now that I have foolishly wasted more of my time on this useless subject, I think I'll go do something productive like play the guitar... Someone can pick apart my words and entangle them in some way which will serve their purpose. After all, they probably don't have anything else to do. That's the big problem about these online discussions.
|
|
|
|
