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John Kozicki

John Kozicki

President/Founder of Michigan Rock School and co-host of the Rock School Proprietor podcast, a former marketing executive and touring punk musician who builds performance-based music programs.

Aug 8, 2026

12:03
And that spectrum of getting them early and introducing music to their young brain so that they're learning music as a language, you know, absorbing it and then moving on to private lessons or these group classes that that John is teaching to the older kids.
12:21
Can I interject and add something here? Because I think the benefit that, at least in my mind, that I think it really brings to a really broad spectrum of listeners being music school owners is, again, I didn't go to school for music.
12:35
And so when I started teaching guitar lessons, the only frame of reference I had was really the guitar lessons that I had.
12:43
as a kid.
12:44
And I think a lot of those like really casual guitar lessons that are delivered can be criticized from the more traditional frame of mind.
12:55
And for good reason in certain respects, right? Like a guitar instructor never writes anything down.
13:01
Let's just jam, right? I think that is worthy of being criticized.

14 MINS LATER

27:35
What's one takeaway? What do you want your listeners to really get from your podcast? What would make you guys feel like, yeah, this podcast is successful because people are getting this? What's the big takeaway you're hoping for?

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