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I think that teaching is like telling a story. If someone wants to learn the double stroke roll on the drums or the I-IV-V on the piano, it is my job to make it comprehensible and easy to grasp. And I don’t know any better way to do that other than story telling. In our digitalized world, there is something that has not perished: the interest in a tale well told. Now, of course, as a story teller, the first thing you need is to be aware of your crowd, as in “Who are the people that I am speaking to today?” Because you don’t present a double stroke roll the same way to a 4th grader as a middle aged man. Oh, don’t make me say what I didn’t say, both of them are interesting. The 4th grader might need some tom tom exercises, some musical examples, some play along exercises, while the middle aged man will require a few talks about the metronome, the notation on paper, the snare drum charts associated with the concept. It would be the same story, ultimately, but told in different ways. I talk about this aspect of teaching because it determines a lot of things. I’ll try to give you a for instance. As in: Let’s go to Hollywood. Every script is trying to explain something to a crowd. There are the characters, the situation, the relationships, the setting, the chronology, etc. A thousand elements are thrown at the spectator in as little time as possible. And every body is critic, of course. Is it a science fiction flick that happens in a spaceship? Yes! No horses, then!