Shane Parish says he’s a self-taught musician, which isn’t a typical credential for someone earning a living as a guitar instructor. “I’m not coming at it from this woo-woo perspective,” he said of his teaching practice. “We can get very specific and technical and advanced, theoretically, but I realized most of it is being present with that person in our time together. I look at it as a conversation about something we are mutually interested in.” This is an evolved and expanded view for someone,