Tag Archives: Music Theory
The Start Teaching Guitar Podcast

STG 064: 15 Components of a Complete Guitar Player

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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The Start Teaching Guitar Podcast

STG 048: Fretboard Theory – Interview With Desi Serna

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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STG 038: Teaching Music Theory -vs- Teaching Songs

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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The “Taylor Swift” Guide To Teaching Guitar

You may not be a big fan of Taylor Swift, but my daughter first introduced me to her music 3 or 4 years ago. She’s a really gifted songwriter, and I have to confess that this middle-aged “rocker dude” can occasionally be found with a Taylor Swift song or two playing on his iPod. She’s [...]

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