The boy has rekindled that long lost passionate affair with music. It has been music school that has drove the musical passion out of many souls but a simple change in thinking and instrumentation sure can do wonders.

When anything is assigned to you by someone else and is deemed "homework," you drag your feet and complain. Sound familiar? This homework could have even been something that at one time, you enjoyed to do. So what could be done to solve the problem? Why reinforcement baby.

Positive and negative reinforcement is used in your life and sometimes you don't even consciously think about it. You might think to yourself, "If I do a good job on my test I will go celebrate with some friends tonight." You are giving your self something positive for studying hard and putting in effort. A simple game of rewarding good behaviors. On the other hand, you use negative reinforcement when you do something negative when you don't do your preferred behavior. You think of something that you absolutely hate and that motivates you to behave accordingly.

While each and everyone of us vary in our amount and focus of reinforcement, some people lack reinforcement all together or don't even utilize this very effective tool. I played music only when I had to and this lead me to play and practice with no passion. Well now I'm changing that around. Now I am getting back into guitar because I'm inspired by my new instruments, Bossa Nova and Flamenco styles. I now utilize them to my advantage. I have been telling myself to get this much homework done, do this important thing, and that and then you will be able to play your new guitars and learn some new techniques. Now when I do my homework I focus exponentially harder and playing music has become what it use to be, pleasurable.