John MacPherson Allan is a professional guitarist with over 45 years of performing experience and a thriving teaching practice based in Sydney, Australia, where he teaches guitar and bass to students of all ages and levels. Drawing on decades of life as a working musician — the stages, the students, the nerves, the breakthroughs, and everything in between — he brings a rare combination of hard-won experience and genuine warmth to everything he teaches. Mind, Music & Practice is his first book.