Looking back, it’s been a season with many more highlights and only a few setbacks. The setbacks I can count on one hand while the highlights are too numerous to mention. For me these highlights will become happy memories that I will always remember.

Thank you all for the highlights and memories. Now the real fun starts... “It’s showtime!”

It truly has been my pleasure,

Ed

P.S. For those that would like to share their experience with the show, lessons, etc. there will be a friend of mine, Stephen Ott, at the Ollie’s show on Saturday who will be filming testimonials. Thanks again.

1. How long have you/your child been practicing music? How long with Ed?
2. What’s changed in your/your childs life since working with Ed?
3. What do you/your child do to get ready for practicing guitar?
4. What do you do when you practice at home? How has that changed since classes with Ed?
5. What’s your favorite part of class? 
6. What do you like about Ed? 
7. How do you feel when you play with Ed?
8. What’s your favorite guitar class memory?

Finally, all of the above could be the reasons behind “Ed’s Problem” but they are not. That is the price that every music director pays for being the music director. This was my problem: the lack of respect, the cutesy comments, the blaming of your parts not being ready on your teachers, etc. I hear what’s being said when I race through the lobby from one rehearsal room to the next. I try to treat you like adults and this week you reminded that you are children which is why I chastised you like children. If you remember back to week one my first speech was about respecting yourselves and each other. That did not fully happen this week and it was only a few of you and you should know better.

As this show season comes to an end the future of the Lightning Licks website needs to become a priority. As such, I’ve decided to create a music instruction website. I’ve also commissioned a PR consultant to help with branding, marketing and creating a buzz. He would like to begin by recording some testimonials from students and parents at the Hendrix Show. This, of course, made me uncomfortable at first but I did commission him to follow his suggestions.

“I Love to Practice”Things haven’t gone that way that we’ve wanted them to go but we have had to make adjustments. I wanted to run dress rehearsals for the month of May and that is probably not going to happen. We still need to work on tunes and that is why the schedule has been setup to allow you the time to play each tune two or three times. Remember, you can’t play these enough so take advantage. This is where the “I love to practice” came in. I was asked if I was trying to teach redundancy by having songs played over and over again. Maybe some of the parents can help me out with this one. We don’t stop playing tunes once we get them right, we stop playing them once we can’t get them wrong.