Name and list things, what will happen, and what we learn and do . Establish goals, discuss music interests, music learning history, an overall take of why we are here. Set standards, rules of guided learning, music learning, music culture, challenges that come up when embarking on learning an instrument, other things. Set student goals, lesson goals, learning goals, performance goals, creative goals... I always say I talk the most in the first lesson, probably the most of all our lessons....

I’m not a yoga teacher (yet), but I have been doing yoga since I've been teaching music (almost 20 yrs) and I think there is something yogic about learning an instrument. I know how it feels to feel like something is out of reach (figuratively & literally), like it’s not for me, like my hands are too small, my voice not good enough (figuratively & literally), etc. AND I know how it feels to see that IT IS possible to achieve something despite what I think or feel. So much like with yoga, it...