It´s Over.

I´m closing the slots for masterclasses in 24 hours. Starting from now.

I didn´t expect it but it’s getting too full too soon. Before I close, let me tell you an important thing:

Arrogance. It gets in the way.

I´m one to know. I’ve been arrogant for a big part of my life.

Disregarding others´ helpful opinions. Thinking I know better. Criticizing others.

What did that get me? Just headaches

I also had to cope with it from others

This one guy learned nothing in my lessons. He kept getting in his own way.

No matter what I said, he always thought he knew better. I didn’t even understand why he even bothered coming to the lessons. But it was not my conservatory, I was only a teacher there. I couldn’t ask him to stop coming.

One day, he came a bit early and I asked him to wait inside while I finished up with the student before him. She was a younger girl who had begun just a few months before.

When he saw and heard what she played, he couldn’t believe his eyes. Or ears.

She had come as a complete beginner but had quickly acquired great precision and musicality in her playing. She played much better than him who had been “studying” piano for two years straight.

He was definitely not in the best of moods afterward during his lesson.

Next week, he stopped negatively reacting to my comments. The week after that he had already made some visible progress.

Within two months, he was transformed. He had become an actual musician.

His encounter with that girl and seeing how much better than him she played made him swallow up his own arrogance and actually listen to what I had to say. Within one year, he was unrecognizable.

He played flawlessly and organized house concerts for his friends and acquaintances. He even invited me and I came once to his house concert. I was touched. And so proud of him!

This is how forgetting about your own arrogance can make an impact on your life. I am constantly reminded and humbled whenever I think about it.

That being said, I am offering my masterclasses for the last time. At least for a good while.

The link is here: Masterclasses to drastically improve on what you’re struggling with.

Tomorrow I’ll change the subject, and tell you about a very beautiful project I’m embarking on and how you can become part of it.

Have a great day!

Claudio.

P.D. If you saw my post today on Instagram, you’re probably in for that story… I’ll post that tomorrow ;)

P.D.D. If you didn’t, you’ll probably have no idea what I’m talking about. And that’s ok, just disregard it… don’t let your arrogance get in the way :)

P.D.D.D. The masterclass link closes in 24 hours: LINK LINK LINK