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So you’ve been playing your instrument for awhile and you’re feeling pretty confident on it. Yes, you can play those hard pieces that you used to hear your favorite pro play. In fact, you’re so good that you decided you wanted to start teaching others and make a little bit more money from doing so (yeah, and maybe you might help someone else discover the joy of playing music whatever). You’ve somehow managed to get your first student and suddenly some doubt creeps into your mind… then a little more… then you go, “What the hell am I even going to teach this person? If it’s an adult I might be fine, but what do I teach them first? If it’s a kid how do I talk to them?” Suddenly you’re panicking because you haven’t got a plan for this student and they are going to walk through that door at any minute. This doesn’t look good.

THE QUESTIONS:

What are you going to teach? What’s your lesson plan for this student? Do you even have one? Are you working strictly from a book, through some method, a checklist of skills and principals, or what? One of the things that I’ve learned since I began teaching is that regardless of what book or method you use, the student needs the basics first and I’m talking basics: what is the instrument (guitar parts, etc.), how to hold it, how to play it (right hand/left hand). The most basic techniques are essential so that they can feel like they at least know a little bit about what they’re doing.


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