Guitar Teacher
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Syria at Work
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I wasn't thinking of being a guitar teacher. Music was my hobby. When I was 17, I went to Russia to study electrical engineering, and for some reason, things were changed, and I decided to study music. When I came back to Syria in the year 1986, I started to work in the Russian Cultural Centre in Damascus as a guitar teacher. Being the only teacher there gave me the feeling that I am the master. No one tells me what to do and what not to do, therefore, I am the one who creates the rules for work and making decisions. I start giving lessons at 4pm which is the most terrible hour, because at that time all my students are children! You need to repeat the finger positions ten times or even more. You try to explain and play the song many times, and when you ask them to do it, oh my God! As if they were not there ... After that, all kinds of people come to learn how to play the guitar. Most of them are fine, but what annoys me is when someone insists on learning but doesn't have the musical sense. Such people have to repeat and practice so much, and in the end they become like machines. It is really difficult to tell them the truth. They say that musicians are moody. Well, that's true, because sometimes I enjoy being a guitar teacher and I love that feeling when I see some of my students performing in a great way, when they are able to recognize what is right and what is wrong, what is being played correctly, and so forth. What makes me upset is that I don't have enough time to concentrate on my music and make an album of what I am composing. That was my dream at the beginning, to be a music composer and have my own band. Music is my life. I know it is not making me rich but at least it is making me feel great and no other job can make me feel the way when I play my guitar. - Zina Z |
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