TEACHING GUITAR WORKSHOPS
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5 Tips to Better Manage your Classroom
No matter how much time, effort and passion you put in, sometimes a class just gets away from you. The variables are many, and there’s no way to anticipate every issue before arises. But you can get more out of each class by employing a few simple tips: 1. C’mon,...
To Play or To Practice (Part I)
The only way to get better on the guitar is to practice. One advantage to having students play guitar in school is that there is a set time built into their schedule for playing guitar every day. As their instructor though, I am wanting more. I want to take these...
Guitar Performance Anxiety: 7 Tips to Overcome It!
Your student could be playing a 99-cent store kazoo, a classical guitar or a Stradivarius. Getting up to play an instrument in front of an audience is nothing like jamming out in at home or even in class. So, as a teacher, how do ease the anxiety that often keeps...
Teach: Robert Johnson
It’s impossible to teach blues guitar without dedicating at least one class to Robert Johnson. Musicians from Eric Clapton to Robert Plant have long acknowledged Johnson’s enormous influence on their music. Every respectable top guitarists of all-time list ranks...
6 Reasons to Attend a Teaching Guitar Workshop!
On the fence about attending a Teaching Guitar Workshop? Need a little convincing? OK, we got it. Check out these six reasons why Teaching Guitar Workshops are the way to go for professional development this summer! Sign up for a Teaching Guitar Workshop and you'll...
Stacey Rubach – Teaching Guitar Workshop Success Story!!!
"The (Teaching Guitar Workshops) caused me to see guitar education in a whole different way. I now teach several high school guitar classes." Name: Stacey Rubach School: Osbourn High School, Manassas, Virginia Guitar Students: 82 Teaching Guitar Workshops: Where...
Don Furness – Teaching Guitar Workshops Success Story!
"There needed to be an option for kids that didn't want to take a performance class. We started the class the first year with about 45 kids and next year we will be at 91." Name: Don Furness School: Redmond Middle School, Redmond, Washington Guitar Students: 60...
Greg Black: Teaching Guitar Workshops Success Story!
Watching the students grow. Most enter the semester with little to no musical experience. By the time they leave, they have the skills to be life-long appreciators and makers of music! That is what is so captivating about the guitar. Unlike a saxophone or a...
Leon Enneking – Teaching Guitar Workshop Success Story!
"When I had the chance to teach at 4-5 grade level I chose to use guitar as the teaching device/instrument. Its combination of note playing and chord playing is what caused me to use it." Name: Leon Enneking School: Batesville Middle School, Batesville, Indiana...
Erik Larson – Teaching Guitar Workshops Success Story
It’s been a shot in the arm for me to be able to offer an alternative and to get even more kids involved in our school music department. I think it has made me a better teacher, as well. Name: Erik Larson School: Fairmont Junior High School, Boise, Idaho Subjects:...
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