The materials are designed to make your guitar teaching more effective and less stressful
The lesson plans look at......
The reality is that In order to teach guitar you need two things
The first is an ability to play the guitar and the second is a plan for teaching it
If you have the ability we can help with the plan
This first lesson is all about establishing with your student what you are going to be working on and why this makes sense
Practical activity is based upon learning the first two (of eight) chord shapes (G and Em) that a beginner needs to master
The second lesson looks at two more of the chords (C and D) that a beginner needs to learn first along with more activities designed to help enable them to change between them in time to music
Guitar lesson three introduces the learner to "Rock" guitar playing and combines a new chord (A) with one that they alredy know (G)
This tends to be a very popular lesson!
The fourth guitar lesson combines the final three chords that a novice should learn first (Am Dm and E) in a single "funky" progression
Once again the backing track does all of the "heavy lifting" and students are able to produce a pleasing sound from the earliest stages of learning to play the guitar
The fifth guitar lesson is a bit of a milestone in that it marks the end of the "absolute begginer" phase of learning to play the guitar
Lesson five involves the student and the teacher in evaluating progress to this point and designing a simple plan that will help to maximise progress in as short a time period as possible
I've called it "Guitar Lesson 6" for the sake of convenience but really it is concerned with the stuff that should be introduced gradually as part of each lesson from this stage on
This material (Power Chords, Bar Chords and Music Theory etc) should be introduced whilst also working with a series of more demanding backing tracks where students are obliged to make more rapid chord changes and/or use more complicated strumming patterns
You can pick up a whole load of our printed guitar teaching resources featuring chords, scales and music theory "explainers" if you follow the link below
There are also a huge range of resources designed to help you to teach kids to play guitar and which provide a structured plan which takes them from the point where they have never held a guitar to a place where they are comfortable moving at speed between the eight chords that they (and older learners) need to learn first
For a more detailed overview of how you might teach a child (or groups of children) to play guitar follow the link in the blue box below
Backing Tracks (pitched at the appropriate level) are by far the best way to encourage your students to play in time and "if they can't play the guitar in time then they can't really play guitar"
Not making sure that their students practice playing in time is perhaps the biggest mistake that inexperienced (or not very good) guitar teachers can make
You can download a free guitar teacher's backing track (and the handouts/chord charts that go with it) by following the link below...
Experienced guitar teachers tend to ignore music theory in the early stages in favour of developing the ability to fret and strum the basic chords This is not to say that music theory is unimportant but it should be introduced at the right time and at a point where it is actually useful (typically when a student is ready to move on from open chords to bar chords) Find out more and get some free stuff......
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If you have a skill on the guitar combined with an ability to talk and communicate with people, without wanting to resort to "hype" the material that you can download today from this site could be all that you need to change the direction of your working life (or at least help you to make some extra money doing something you love).
Our resources are used by guitar teachers all over the world to make it much easier for them to make a living. Use the links below to look at our materials aimed at both beginner and more advanced students as well as some stuff on the often overlooked subject of helping students to come up with their own original songs
The objective is to help your students to learn and be familiar with the best and most useful eight chord shapes that a beginner can learn
This site does not offer a "revolutionary original patent guitar teaching method" that I came up with that guarantees years of progress in a single session or any of that kind of nonsense The website is based around what the best guitar teachers on the planet have been quietly doing for decades
Follow the link below to go right to a page that gives you "step by step" instructions for a series of guitar lessons aimed at absolute beginners (the most common type of guitar student out there)
If your students can't play guitar in time to a band then they can"t play guitar! Its as simple as that. Follow the link to hear our huge range of guitar backing tracks designed to make sure that beginner guitarists develop a sense of time right from the start
We also have a whole range of guitar backing tracks that go beyond the basics to help you to teach more advanced learners that introduce more "involved" chords and help your students to explore a range of styles, grooves and genres
Follow the link below to find out more
Music theory has to be introduced to students at the right time. Too soon and it can confuse and hinder progress. Too late and they can be resistant to it because they are already competent technically and they may not like "starting from the beginning" again
You don't have to be a great guitar player (yet) to write a great song. The earlier our students get used to the idea that they can be creative almost from the very first stages of playing guitar then the more they are likely to enjoy 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 combinations of chords tend to work better than others and that a whole load of the songs that they know and love have a lot of chord sequences in common
The reality is that most guitar teachers don't have much call to teach jazz guitar as the vast majority of students either have limited interest in it or are not yet ready to study the form due to a lack of theoretical knowledge and technical capacity. Having said that its a great way of keeping more advanced students stimulated and also a very effective means by which we can stretch ourselves as educators.
A lot of guitar teachers are branching out and becoming more versatile by teaching ukulele You could join them
The chord shapes (if not the names) should be pretty familiar to anyone who plays guitar and the material here is designed to work with ten of the backing tracks from the download
We offer a "one stop shop" for guitar teachers that allows them to download our resources to, and teach guitar from a phone, tablet or PC. With the rapid advance of mobile phone technology it is now common for guitar teachers (with access the appropriate kit such as air printers/bluetooth technology/mp3 storage etc) to turn up for work armed with little more than a guitar and a phone
Back to teaching beginners........