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How To Teach Guitar
1: Teach the eight open chords best for beginners
2: Help your students change chords in time to music
3: Monitor progress and plan future lessons
4: Work on power chords and bar chords
5: Introduce basic guitar music theory
Below you can see a clearly laid out plan designed to take a complete novice on the guitar to a point where they progress from being a beginner to becoming an intermediate level player
Free Lesson Plans, Student Handouts and Backing Tracks
Although this website has a whole load of material relating to teaching more advanced guitar players we do not neglect the basics of what is probably the most important stage of a guitar player's career
Free Guitar Lesson Plans
We give away detailed plans for the first eight beginner's guitar lessons used by professional teachers all over the globe to get their students off to an effective and rewarding start on the instrument
The Lesson Plans are FREE!
You can download a whole series of free beginners guitar lesson plans and see details of the lessons in action by following the links below
Beginners Guitar Lesson 1
Beginners-Guitar Lesson 2
Beginners Guitar Lesson 3
Beginners Guitar Lesson 4
Beginners Guitar Lesson 5
And the very important sixth lesson where the plan for the stage beyond the absolute beginner stage is set out.....
Guitar Lesson Plan 6
Download FREE Children's Guitar Lesson Plans'
In addition we have a whole load of resources and five FREE lesson plans designed to help you to teach children to play guitar and as if thats not enough we have a whole load of FREE guitar teaching resources for you to download and use right away irrespective of whether you buy our materials or not
See the kid's guitar lessons in action and get a Free Download of the First Five Children's Guitar Lesson Plans Now!
Kid's Guitar Lesson Plan 1
Kid's Guitar Lesson Plan 2
Kid's Guitar Lesson Plan 3
Kid's Guitar Lesson Plan 4
Kid's Guitar Lesson Plan 5
Find out more about teaching children to play guitar...
Its not all about teaching beginners to play guitar
As well as the resources aimed at beginners and children there are also a whole load of materials that can be used when teaching intermediate and more advanced guitar players
There are a whole load of resources designed for teaching music theory to guitar players and even stuff aimed at helping a teacher to understand how songwriting works on guitar
Add the material on teaching ukulele alongside the bass guitar teaching resources in addition to stuff geared towards teaching jazz guitar basics and you can see why I feel justified in claiming that the teachwombat download offers rediculously good value for money
Instead of splitting the resources up here into a series of teaching packs and selling them separately for $25.00 per pack (as I have been advised to do many times by folks who know much more about this online marketing thing than I do) I would still rather just bundle all of the guitar teaching aids together in a single download and have folks feel like they got a bargain rather than having to choose between complicated options and run the risk of choosing the wrong package
Only the most advanced and versatile guitar teachers will use all of the materials but I think it is fair to claim that anyone who teaches guitar will find that the download makes their teaching better and the process easier
Teaching Advanced Guitar
Most guitar teachers specialise in teaching beginners or younger players who are by far the most common type of student out there but a significant number of educators who specialise in teaching more advanced guitarists either privately or from within the college and university sectors
The download features a whole load of resources that guarantee that those teaching at a higer level will not be short of the materials that they need
Follow the link below to see our range of resources designed with the more advanced musician in mind
Download everything that you see and hear on this website for the (frankly rediculously inexpensive) price of $25.00
Only $25.00
"If Your Guitar Students Can't Play In Time They Can't Play"
Backing Tracks offer The Best Path to Rapid and Sustained Progress
Inexperienced (or just plain bad) guitar teachers often make the mistake of just teaching their students more chords or licks and wonder why they eventualy stop coming for lessons
It is way better and more satisfying for a novice guitar player to be able to play something well and in time to a band than to half know a whole load of stuff that they can't quite play convincingly
The backing tracks do all of the the heavy lifting and ensure that even though your student may be playing something incredibly simple (such as a single strum each time the chord changes) the result will sound convincing and professional
Most people who take up the guitar do so in order to play along with other musicians and using the backing tracks means that you will be providing them with the experience and results that they seek from the very start
Good news for your students and for your business
Custom Build Your Own Library Of Guitar Teaching Resources
The download also features a whole load of "blank" documents featuring combinations of blank necks, tab, notation and chord grids
There are a mix of standard pages and ones aimed specificall at younger guitar students that feature fun cartoon graphics etc
Follow the link below to find out more....
we also have a whole load of resources for teaching guitar music theory and to be honest one of the best ways to improve and reinforce your own knowledge of guitar music theory is to teach it
Find out more.........
Develop Your Guitar Student's Creativity From The Start
You don't need to be a fantastic guitar player (yet) to write a fantastic song. The sooner our students become convinced that they can be creative from the earliest stages of playing the guitar then the more they are likely to get out of the whole process.
Before they are familiar with the detail of how music theory works they can still derive great benefit from realising that some common combinations of chords work better than others and that a lot of the songs that they know and love have the same or similar chord sequences
Download more Free Resources
The link below will get you to a whole load of free stuff! Enjoy!
What do you need in order to start teaching guitar?
There is no "typical" guitar teacher Each one of us arrived at the point where we embarked on a guitar teaching career via a unique set of circumstances and we all have a unique set of strengths and weknesses.
What all guitar teachers need is the ability to talk to people and to be able to empathise with them. There is no shortage of guitar players but a lot of them are not really suited to putting people at ease and understanding their problems.
If you can play the guitar and talk to people easily then the other thing that you need (and this is where we can help you out) is to have access to a set of lesson plans and printable guitar teaching resources that will allow you to "hit the ground running" in your new career.
You probably need to find out two things in order to progress The first is "can I teach guitar?" and the second is "do I enjoy doing it?" The simplest and most effective way to do that is to actually have a go at it
How good do you need to be to teach guitar?
Teaching guitar well is not so much about being a wonderful musician but rather it is about finding the right people to help and then to help them appropriately and efficiently
Having a plan (along with the resources to carry out that plan) is more imprtant than how fast the teacher can play
Follow the link below which explores in greater detail the question of just who is well set up to become a guitar teacher
Dipping a toe in the guitar teaching water
If you play guitar you have probably heard people say countless times "oh I wish I could play guitar" or maybe folks have asked you for lessons and you backed away from it because you are a guitar player and not a guitar teacher well now is the time to step up to the plate and see if this is the job for you If you know someone who wants to play guitar why don't you see if you can teach them? In addition here I am going to suggest that you break a "golden rule" of guitar teaching and offer to give them a bunch of lessons without being paid (I can't believe I just wrote that down!)
This is a one time only "friends and family" thing and is strictly temporary I have (very) strong opinions about guitar teachers who give the first lesson away free (to customers that they do not know) and don't get me started on people who are surprised how much guitar lessons cost and expect you to teach them (or their children) to play for less per hour than you could get for turning slabs of meat over on a grill with a daft hat on because they think that playing guitar is not a "real" job
I teach in schools and colleges and have lost count of the times that fellow members of staff (who should know better) have given the impression that they do not think music is a "proper" subject (like the one that they teach) just because I, and my students seem to enjoy what we do
A much wiser person than me once said something along the lines of "If your job entails doing what you truly love then you will never work a day in your life" and I often think of that when some halfwit decides that what I do for a living is not "real" work. We don't get paid for teaching guitar for an hour We get paid for all of the hours that they (or their children) were not there when we ourselves were sat in our bedrooms learning to play
The fact that learning to play guitar was a whole lot of fun is beside the point I studied the guitar to the extent that people are quite happy to give me money to teach it Im glad I did it It was hard (and enjoyable) work I'm not about to take any nonsense from somebody who spent a few years stumbling into geography lectures between hangovers and then finding out that they needed money (to continue funding those hangovers?) and who wandered into teaching because seemed like an easier option than lifting heavy things or working night shifts.... Oops! sorry I just went off on one there but you get the idea? Teaching guitar is rewarding and enjoyable work but it is still work
Guitar Teaching Jobs
There are three main types of guitar teaching job out there (teaching from home, teaching in schools and teaching in music stores) and all of them offer a way to avoid the dreaded day job. If you follow the link above you will see a more detailed breakdown of the pros and cons of each type of guitar teaching job but the reality is that if you are reading this page then you are probably not already teaching guitar in a school or a music store You need help with actually starting to teach guitar and those jobs will (presumably) come along later when you are an established guitar teacher
I know its old school and relies on printed paper and not an app but included in the download is this simple to use administration system that has a teaching diary and other sheets that can be used to record purchases and gig income
In the meantime do a tour of the site to find out more of what we offer or you might like to............
Take a look at the video below (which even makes sense with the sound muted) which looks at a series of lessons geared towards getting kids off to a flying start on guitar
The Deluxe Package:
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The Kids Guitar Teaching Package
A whole load of child friendly materials to download and use in your guitar teaching today. This material is designed to run alongside the "Backing Tracks and Handouts Package . All of the material that you need in order to teach kids to play guitar. Chord Charts, One finger (reduced) chord diagrams. An opportunity to start any young would be guitar player off the right way!
The Backing Tracks and Handouts Package
35 Backing Tracks and around 80 Handouts to go with them. An invaluable aid designed to help you to teach both rhythm and lead guitar to younger and older students alike Great for helping to develop a good dense of timing
The Guitar Teacher's Toolkit
100
printable sheets dealing with Open Chords-Bar Chords-Scales- Modes- Blank Fretboard and Chord Grids Teaching Diary and Business Card DesignsPlus 100 Giant (letter sized) Chord Grids
laminate them in order to help you to teach group guitar lessons, distribute them to your students or just stick on your teaching studio wall? The "Coolest Wallpaper on the planet?"
And a freebie from us to you!
The Bass Guitar Teacher's Toolkit
Over 60 Handouts for anyone who already teaches (or who wishes to teach) bass guitar covering Scales, Chords, Fingering Exercises etc
Over 400 Sheets and 35 Backing tracks to Download and use TODAY!
Everything you need to start or improve a guitar teaching business! It's all there!
Only $25.00
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