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What my guitar teacher taught me about learning.

  It was my childhood dream to learn to play the guitar. But well, at some turn of events, I ended up taking piano classes when I was 10 years old. I kept at it for about 5 years until I expressed my desire to learn to play the guitar to my piano teacher - who happened to also play the guitar and took guitar classes. For the first few months, he took basic guitar lessons for me, and given my interest and curiosity, he suggested I take lessons directly from his own guitar teacher. And he lobbied for me to his guitar teacher - Mr Peter, for admitting me into his class, Mr. Peter finally agreed after much convincing, as he preferred having a small class with few students. Peter sir had two groups, the beginner class mostly for students who took grade 1 lessons and the advanced class for those who were at a higher grade. Though I was a grade 1 student, sir moved me to the advanced group after a few lessons. And well I was thrilled to be sitting with all these more experienced musicians. No