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What is a complete guitar player? There are a lot of different aspects to being a well-rounded musician. People debate this subject all the time. Is it all about how well you can play technical passages, or how well you understand theory or how many cool sounds you can wrangle out of your guitar? The [...]
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Guitar students can choose to quit taking lessons with you for several different reasons. Sometimes it’s because of something you did or didn’t do as a teacher, sometimes it’s just because life gets in the way, and sometimes it’s because they do it to themselves and mess things up. In this episode, I’ll get into [...]
Do you ever wish you could understand why your students respond to your lessons the way they do? Maybe you’d love to know what strengths and weaknesses you bring to your guitar teaching business so you could get help with the things that could make you more successful? Understanding personality types and how they interact [...]
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Have you ever pulled your hair out trying to teach an 8-year-old how to play an open C chord? Some guitar teachers think teaching younger kids is the least desirable way to make a living, but that’s only true if you don’t understand the special way you have to approach teaching this unique group of [...]
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In this episode, I’m going to be talking about guitar pedagogy…what it is, what it can do for your teaching business and why you should care. Pedagogy is one of those areas that most guitar teachers aren’t really familiar with and don’t think about much, but understanding it is a big key to being successful [...]
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Are you losing guitar students on a regular basis, but you don’t really know why? There’s a good chance you might be doing something to drive your students away! In this episode, I’ll get into 7 different ways guitar teachers can unknowingly make their students want to leave, and what you can do to keep [...]
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Are you tired of not having a good understanding of music theory, as a player and a teacher? It’s hard to teach these things to your students when you’re still struggling with them yourself…but that doesn’t have to be problem for you any more! In this episode I’ll be interviewing Desi Serna, a very successful [...]
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In this episode, I’ll be talking about two very different approaches to teaching guitar: leading off with music theory or going with songs, instead. There’s quite a bit of contention about this and lots of guitar teachers who fall on one side of the fence or the other…today I’ll tell you about the pros and [...]
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In this episode we’re digging into all the different qualities and skills that make a guitar teacher GREAT! One of the best ways to grow your teaching business for the long-term is to improve the QUALITY of the services you provide, and we’re going to talk about exactly how ANY guitar teacher (new or established) [...]
In this episode, I’m going to give you a HUGE SECRET for being a better guitar teacher…how to TROUBLESHOOT PROBLEMS with your student’s guitar playing. Troubleshooting skills are ESSENTIAL for helping your students overcome weaknesses and make better progress on the guitar…they really are one of the primary things that separate a GOOD guitar teacher [...]
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