One of the driving principles behind Start Teaching Guitar is that we can all learn from each other. This “Guitar Teacher Interview” series is a chance for us to hear from other guitar teachers around the world and hopefully get some ideas for our own teaching businesses. This interview is with Joshua C Liston, a [...]
Guitar Teacher Interview 020 – Tim Woosley
One of the driving principles behind Start Teaching Guitar is that we can all learn from each other. This “Guitar Teacher Interview” series is a chance for us to hear from other guitar teachers around the world and hopefully get some ideas for our own teaching businesses. This interview is with Tim Woosley, a guitar [...]
STG 060: Time Management For Guitar Teachers – Interview With Kevin Toller
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Are you so busy teaching guitar lessons that you don’t feel like you have time for the things that really matter? Or maybe you work a full-time day job and teach guitar on the side and it feels like you don’t have time for a real life. I’ve been there, too, and I learned that [...]
STG 058: Riff Master Pro – Interview With Heath Nicholson
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You’ve probably heard of Riff Master Pro by now, but you may not know much about Heath Nicholson…the guitar teacher from Sydney, Australia who created it. Heath is a successful teacher, performing guitarist and business owner who has some excellent advice for new and established guitar teachers about how to be more successful. Heath was [...]
STG 032 : 5 Challenges For Beginning Guitar Teachers
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In this episode, I’ll tell you about 5 challenges most beginning guitar teachers have to face. Starting your own teaching business isn’t always a bed of roses…but if you KNOW ABOUT the challenges ahead of time, you can PREPARE for them, OVERCOME them and be SUCCESSFUL. I’ll give you some great advice about how to [...]
STG 030 : 7 Lies You’ve Been Told About Teaching Guitar
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In this episode, I’ll be telling you about 7 very common misconceptions…LIES, actually…that a lot of guitar teachers have been told. A lot of the things we take for granted and consider to be common sense JUST AREN’T TRUE when it comes to being a guitar teacher…and if you can understand and believe the TRUTH, [...]
STG 028 : Why 50% of New Guitar Teachers Fail
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In this episode, I’ll tell you why over HALF of all small business owners (including guitar teachers) FAIL within the first 5 years, and some things you can do to avoid joining the ranks of the “bottom 50%”. You don’t have to become another statistic…you can have a successful, long-lasting business teaching guitar lessons if [...]
Guest Article – Benefits of Teaching Guitar
Being a guitar teacher is a great job. I think that if you want to a become great guitarist, teaching is one of the best choices that you can make. It is not an easy job, though. You have to study, you have to practice, you have to learn how to teach different people and [...]
Guitar Teacher Interview 015 – Kyle Ohlenkamp
One of the driving principles behind Start Teaching Guitar is that we can all learn from each other. This “Guitar Teacher Interview” series is a chance for us to hear from other guitar teachers around the world and hopefully get some ideas for our own teaching businesses. This interview is with Kyle Ohlenkamp, from Minnetonka, [...]
Guitar Teacher Interview 008 – Liam Cain
One of the driving principles behind Start Teaching Guitar is that we can all learn from each other. This “Guitar Teacher Interview” series is a chance for us to hear from other guitar teachers around the world and hopefully get some ideas for our own teaching businesses. This interview is with Liam Cain, a full-time [...]








