| Excerpt from an Interview with Charlie Banacos |
Charlie: Sometimes I get asked "Who's your best student?" or "Who's your favorite student?" and I always answer that it's the student I'm teaching at the moment. I love to teach and I'm not one of those people who teach because they can't get a gig. I've always taught. In my work with students all around the world I've found it doesn't matter if they're well known or not, it comes down to this: Find out what to practice and then do the work. It never fails. Students who are motivated to do a lot of tough disciplined work will do great with these lessons. It is a lot of fun to get better and better at music but I'm serious and I expect the student to be just as serious about learning. If someone doesn't know if he or she is serious, then my advice would be to not even bother trying these lessons.
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