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Gam-ify Your Classroom Guitar Program with Electives
I was reading a post on Edutopia about using principles from video games to engage students. I was struck by how much classroom guitar programs resemble video games. Douglas Kiang, the author of the article, points out that in video games we: - Fail early and often...
Reflecting on the Success of Classroom Guitar
"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" comes streaming across our school's PA system after the last student has exited the building for Christmas break. That was one of my former principals jolly way of not only wishing us "Merry Christmas", but I think even...
Guitar TABs, the Other White Meat
You teach standard music notation in music class, right? Sure, but what about the other form of notation, TAB? Notation and TAB have been around for a long time, but nothing says controversy like teaching TAB in music class. By the NumbersTAB made a comeback a few...
Teaching a Guitar Class of Beginners and High Flyers
Photo credit: FlyingPete from morguefile.com Are you struggling at teaching your guitar classes because you have both beginners and students who have rocked out for a long time? This has been a struggle that I have found myself in and one that I have been asked...
Breaking Unspoken Rules in Guitar Class
Photo credit: manuere from morguefile.com School is full of rules, most of them unspoken. However, if there's one takeaway from music, it's that you have to break the rules to make something beautiful. In shaping growing minds and life-long music makers think...
5 Songs to Play with Barre Chords
You've seen Rob Pethel's videos on how to teach Barre Chords, now how do you make it musical for your students? We put some song recommendations together for you and your classroom guitar program that involve barre chords, mixing open and barre chords, and barre...
5 Holiday Songs for Guitar Class
It's that time of year again: Everyone is busy shopping and making plans for the holidays. Meanwhile, you forgot to plan out some holiday songs for your guitar class! Don't worry! We've got you covered with 5 songs that are easy to learn and teach. Frosty the...
When Guitar Is Not Your First Instrument: 5 Teaching Tips
Part of my responsibility as the Guitar Task Force Chair in Clark County is to pay attention to the challenges that guitar teachers are facing. Currently, 60% of our classroom guitar teachers do not play the guitar or did not play the guitar before teaching their...
Guitar-Class Utility Belt
Batman's utility belt had all sorts of little gadgets that helped him save the world. There were bat cables, bat ropes...even bat-shark repellent (think Adam West). Well, what happens when disaster strikes your guitar class? Keeping your guitar class running...
Guitar Ensemble Book Sampler
The other day we published a piece by Bill Swick about the benefits of classroom guitar ensembles. Ensembles build teamwork, musicality, open opportunities for performances and helps the class bond. Beyond why ensembles are great Suzanne Shull had advice on how to...
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