But when we started, or when I did that, when we started a couple of years ago,
there were many things that, it just made me aware that I didn't know
the program well enough to know what I wanted them to do.
I was just letting them kind of freeform it out there.
I did find out that I had to give the kids boundaries.
I had to give them specifics.
They're not good at just, whatever you want.
They work better
if they know specifically, it has to be this many measures long.
And it has to be that many measures long.
It needs to be, you know, it needs to look like this.
It also, from what we've done, you know,
when we've done this before, it helps if you do one with them.
And that's in anything, you know.
A lot of times, if you're doing something new with kids,
the modeling is incredibly important.
And not just that you model it, that you model it with them.
They have to be involved in it.
Then once they kind of get to grab a hold of that, you know, some of them would take off.
I, as an adult, as adults, we forget that this was the first time.
Please come to the office, Josh Lord,
-please come to the [inaudible]. -And this is after school,
on a Friday afternoon!
An hour after school's been out.
So we, we forget that the kids, this is their first time.
So many of them, the first touch,
what seems easy for us because we're musicians anyway.
What seems easy.
And while that's plain as day,
some kids are looking at it from a totally different angle.
So I think, and that's what I've had to grow, grow, and get used to,
and probably initiated at this time.
That was another thing that I discovered.
Don't you understand?
Can you visually not see how this must look exactly the same over here?
And they visually just didn't get it because I hadn't made enough point of
letting that model happen, to make them see it.
When I finally got to sit down with a few of them, one-on-one and say, okay,
let's copy paste this over here to make the A section exactly the same.
When I finally got to sit down to deal with that and let them do it,
it was like.
Oh, I see. And I'm wondering,
what did they miss the first time that they didn't see that then?
Well, they were probably thinking about lunch.
They were probably thinking about the girl that was sitting next to them,
and they really liked her.
And does she even know this?
I mean, their mind is on other things.
So you have to kind of figure that out too. So.
You know, I think that's probably the thing.