How To Teach Guitar Articles
Learn how to teach guitar better by reading the guitar teaching articles below. The articles are grouped in two categories, 'how to teach guitar' and 'growing your guitar teaching business'. You may also want to check out my music career articles and other guitar articles.
Guitar Teaching Articles About: How To Teach Guitar
This guitar teaching article shows you how to balance giving students what they 'need' to learn with what they 'want' to learn, so they become awesome players faster and remain your students longer - making it easier for you to earn a lot of money teaching guitar.
Whether you’ve been teaching music for years, or if you’re just thinking of getting started teaching music, there is a simple 3-letter word that destroys most guitar teachers' ability to make money and help their students. And it has nothing to do with your age, intelligence, musical skills or where you live. Find out what 'it' is and how to protect your guitar teaching business from it in this guitar teaching article.
As you get better at teaching guitar to intermediate guitar students, the demand for you as a guitar teacher will go up. This article shows you how to teach guitar to intermediate students the right way.
When you can maintain your beginner students' interest, it becomes easy to motivate them to practice at home, believe in themselves (and in you) and not give up when things are hard- making it far easier to reach your goals as a guitar teacher. This guitar teaching article shows you how to maintain the interest of your beginner students.
In this guitar teaching article, you get answers to the most common guitar teaching questions from successful guitar teachers (who earn at least 6-figures per year, teaching part-time) and music school owners from all over the world.
Advanced guitar students have very different needs from those who are beginners and at an intermediate level. Here is how to teach them to turn them into highly advanced players and make yourself the go-to guitar teacher in your area.
Teaching musical application to students makes them want to practice more, makes lessons more fun and motivates them to keep taking lessons with you for years. Here is how to teach musical application to your guitar students.
The better you are at teaching guitar to kids the more fun your guitar teaching career becomes. Here are 5 secrets of teaching guitar to kids all guitar teachers ought to know.
What is the best guitar teaching format? Is it teaching guitar in groups? Or 1-1 guitar lessons? Conventional guitar teaching wisdom says: 1-1 guitar lessons. But I disagree. Here are 11 reasons why teaching guitar in groups is better than 1-1 guitar lessons.
What To Teach In A Guitar Student's First Lesson
Want your guitar students to stay with you longer? Teach the first lesson with every student like I show in this guitar teaching article. Here is how to run a kick-butt first lesson with a new guitar student to earn their respect and make them glad they chose you as their teacher.
How To Earn A Living Teaching Guitar During A Recession
Want to grow your guitar teaching business but are afraid that the recession will get in your way? Learn how to make a living teaching guitar during a recession.
5 Roadblocks That Ruin Your Guitar Teaching Business
Why do so many guitar teachers get stuck earning only a modest living teaching lessons? They use the same mindset, strategies and models. Learn how to not end up like them and make great money teaching guitar.
How To Train Your Guitar Students To Become Better Players
Helping your guitar students become better players requires more than teaching them musical ideas. You also need to coach and train them. Learn how to do these things by reading this guitar teaching article.
7 Guitar Teaching Mistakes Caused By Fear
The greatest challenge you face as a guitar teacher is overcoming your irrational fears. Your fears keep you from providing maximum value to your students and limit your income. Learn 7 common mistakes guitar teachers make (due to fear) and how to overcome them.
15 Major Guitar Teaching Mistakes You Must Avoid
The easiest way to become a better guitar teacher is to learn from the mistakes of other guitar teachers and not repeat them. This helps your students become better guitarists, makes you stand out among other guitar teachers and helps you to earn a lot more money. Avoid these 15 guitar teaching mistakes.
Best Guitar Teaching Methods To Use With Your Students
Using cookie-cutter methods for teaching guitar won’t help your guitar students become great players. Learn what to do instead to help your students progress faster and create your own highly effective guitar teaching methods.
How To Get Your Guitar Students To Practice Consistently
The single most important habit you can instill in your guitar students is the ability to practice guitar correctly and consistently on their own at home. Read this article to learn 5 key ways to motivate your guitar students to practice.
The Best Way To Become A Successful Guitar Teacher
Becoming a truly great guitar teacher and climbing to the top of Mt. Everest have many things in common. Both professions require a lot of hard work, decision and commitment - but, there is one more thing that both guitar teachers and mountain climbers share in common. Learn what it is so you can get started building a successful guitar teaching business.
How To Teach Creativity To Your Guitar Students
Want to transform all of your guitar students into awesome players a lot faster? Then you need to stop giving them “tons of stuff to practice” every single time they have a lesson. Instead, you must start training them so that they can creatively apply their skills and stop using inferior guitar teaching models. Find out how to do all of this and a lot more by checking out the points in this article about teaching guitar more effectively.
Why Some Guitar Teachers Are Highly Successful: The Psychology Of A Guitar Teacher
Have you noticed some guitar teachers are very successful while others struggle to make ends meet? Fact is, becoming a great guitar teacher requires both knowledge of teaching guitar AND an understanding of how psychology can work 'for' you. Become a successful guitar teacher by learning how to take advantage of your strongest personality traits.
Teaching Guitar: How To Fix Bad Habits And Solve Problems Your Guitar Students Have
Do you sometimes struggle to get your guitar students to correct bad habits or solve problems in their guitar playing? You're certainly not alone. Many guitar teachers struggle with this and never really learn how to help their students become much better players. Read this article and learn how to teach guitar better by discovering how to solve guitar teaching problems.
How To Teach Guitar More Effectively And Help Your Students Make MASSIVE Progress
Do you have a difficult time helping your guitar students to make powerful progress in their guitar playing so they can become much better players? This is a very common problem that prevents many guitar teachers from ever becoming truly successful. Check out this article about how to teach guitar to quickly learn how to help your students to become awesome musicians.
5 Big Mistakes You Should Avoid When Teaching Beginning Guitar Students
Do your beginning guitar students usually progress slowly? Do they sometimes 'get stuck' in their guitar playing? Is teaching beginning guitar students sometimes very frustrating for you? Do you have a significant number of beginning guitar students who quit lessons with you after less than 1 year? Discover the 5 most common mistakes guitar teachers make when teaching beginning guitar students by reading this article about how to teach beginner guitar.
How To Effectively Teach Guitar Chords To Beginning Guitar Students
Beginning guitar students very often struggle with changing guitar chords quickly, fluently and musically. This can become very frustrating for them, and for you, the teacher - If left unchecked, this issue can greatly damage a student's self-confidence, causing them to quit lessons altogether. Learn how to solve this problem by reading this guitar teaching lesson on how to effectively teach guitar chords.
Learn How To Teach Guitar
To learn how to teach guitar well and build a successful guitar teaching business, you need to know some critical steps that most new guitar teachers either don't know or don't do. Once you learn these things, you will be able to quickly move forward as a guitar teacher - making more money and better helping your students become great players. Read more in this article about how to teach guitar.
How To Teach Your Guitar Students To Practice And Make More Progress
One of the biggest challenges for many guitar teachers is getting their guitar students to make progress during each lesson. Fact is, most guitar teachers spend a lot of time doing things such as showing their students new techniques or licks to play on guitar but spend very little time showing them how to actually ‘practice’ what they learn. Learn how to teach guitar students to practice by reading this guitar teaching article.
How To Get Started Teaching Guitar
Do you want to get started teaching guitar, but don’t feel confident in your teaching abilities yet? Don't give up just yet, it's much easier to become a successful guitar teacher than you think. Gain confidence and become a great guitar teacher fast by avoiding the most common guitar teaching mistakes - Read this article about how to start teaching guitar while avoiding the largest mistakes made by new guitar teachers.
Common Guitar Teaching Questions You Should Never Ask
Before you have reached a great level of success as a guitar teacher, you will have many questions that need solutions. However, many common guitar teaching questions are based on false assumptions that will be harmful to your guitar teaching business. Discover the top 7 guitar teaching questions you should never ask if ever you want to become a highly successful guitar teacher.
Guitar Teaching Articles About: Growing Your Guitar Teaching Business
Here are 5 unique advantages that teaching guitar has over most other businesses (or jobs) and how to harness them to build a 6-figure (or higher) guitar teaching business, even if you are not an advanced guitar player yet.
This guitar teaching article helps you set your guitar lesson rates so you can reach your financial goals as a guitar teacher, make your students feel like they're getting a bargain no matter what you charge and all but ensure you become the go-to guitar teacher in your area.
If you want to make more money teaching guitar, copy these (simple) things all 6-figure earning guitar teachers do to attract more students, help them better than any other teacher in their area and have more fun building and running their guitar teaching businesses.
If you want to make more money teaching guitar, attract more serious guitar students (and more of them), plus - enjoy teaching way more, you have to become a guitar teaching 'specialist'. This guitar teaching article shows you why that is and how to do it.
This article shows you how to get into teaching guitar and learn how to teach guitar at a high level, even if you’ve never taught anyone before.
Most guitar students don't quit for the reasons they 'say' they do. Understanding the 'real reasons' makes it much easier to recognize the warning signs before the student actually stops lessons. This article reveals 5 surprising reasons guitar students quit that most guitar teachers don't know about.
How To Increase Your Guitar Teaching Income In The Summer
Most guitar teachers lose money in the summer, but you don't have to be one of them. This guitar teaching article shows you how to increase your guitar teaching income in the summertime.
Guitar Teaching Tips That Get You More Students
Getting more guitar students starts with asking yourself the right questions. These questions shape your guitar teaching business strategy and help you take the right actions that fill your guitar teaching schedule fast. Read this article and learn 6 guitar teaching questions that help you get more guitar students.
The Key To Building A Thriving Guitar Teaching Business
When you struggle as a guitar teacher, you are falling short in one (or more) key areas of your guitar teaching business. Learn how to identify and overcome these weaknesses and build a successful guitar teaching business.
Why Guitar Teachers Fail And How You Can Succeed
Most guitar teachers can’t earn more than $40,000 per year teaching guitar no matter how hard they try. Successful guitar teachers earn $30,000-40,000 (or more) per MONTH. Learn the key difference between guitar teachers who fail and those who succeed and discover how to become hugely successful teaching guitar.
7 Things That Guarantee Financial Failure For Guitar Teachers
Even those guitar teachers who genuinely ‘try’ to earn more money from teaching often destroy their chances of success by following traditional ‘common sense’ tactics in their businesses. These ideas appear perfectly logical, but they WILL hurt you in big ways. Read this article to protect yourself from certain failure as a guitar teacher.
How To Not Lose Guitar Students Over The Summer
Learn how you can keep a full schedule of students during the summer while your competition suffers and their rosters dwindle as fewer students inquire about guitar lessons. This article shows you the 4 reasons that most teachers lose money over the summer and how you can not only maintain, but grow your guitar student roster during the summer.
Why Copying Other Guitar Teachers Will Not Help You Earn Good Money Teaching Guitar
Want to make a great living teaching guitar? The first thing you need to do is stop copying what other guitar teachers are doing! This might sound odd at first, but copying others is actually a huge mistake - Truth is, most guitar teachers are merely “guessing” what works or doesn’t work... and this method will NEVER bring great results. Read this article about earning money teaching guitar to learn the other main reasons why copying other guitar teachers doesn’t work, and what to do instead.
The 5 Steps You Must Take To Become Successful At Teaching Guitar
You will not become the number one guitar teacher in your area until you understand (and take action on) the principles that massively successful guitar teachers use. It doesn't matter what level your teaching skills are, where you are located or how much experience you have. These 5 principles for guitar teaching success are essential for your growth and prosperity.
How To Become The Number One Local Guitar Teacher
Wondering what you need to do to become the best guitar teacher in your local area? Most guitar teachers are destined to achieve mediocre results for their students and fail to earn good money in their guitar teaching business. Don't become one of them! Learn the 5 main reasons why you haven't become the number one teacher in your city and how to change this. Read this guitar teaching article.
Make Money Teaching Guitar
Most guitar teachers struggle to support themselves full time on their income from teaching guitar. Many simply give up the idea of pursuing teaching guitar as a career path and instead get a non music related day job. Fact is that there are several key reasons why most music teachers struggle financially that can easily be avoided once you become aware of them and take steps to correct them. Read this article to learn how to make money teaching guitar.
How To Become A Guitar Teacher Who Earns $100,000 Per Year
It doesn’t matter if you’ve been teaching guitar for 30 years or if you just started – you CAN become a massively successful guitar teacher. In order to do it, you must have 5 crucial elements. These elements are the same elements that all successful people have (not just guitar teachers). Learn about them by reading this article on how to become a successful guitar teacher.
5 More Reasons Why Guitar Teachers Don't Make 6-Figures And How YOU Can
You can easily make 6-figures or more as a guitar teacher IF you don't make the same mistakes as the majority of other teachers. Fact is, your financial future is in your hands (regardless of a bad economy, the city you live in or your current musical skills). Learn 5 key reasons why so many guitar teachers don't earn good money and what you can do right now to make good money for yourself by reading this guitar teaching article.
How To Quit Your Day Job And Make A Living Teaching Guitar
You do NOT have to work at a 9-5 job you hate for the rest of your life! Making a living as a gutar teacher is fun, rewarding, and much less risky. Plus, you're probably ready to start teaching guitar right now... Learn why by reading this article on how to teach guitar for a living.
The BIG Error That Keeps You ‘Just Out Of Reach’ Of Becoming Successful Teaching Guitar
The difference between wild success and total failure as a guitar teacher comes down to one fundamental thing that one group does and the other doesn't do. It explains why there are many teachers who possess equally good teaching skills and potential, yet only ‘some’ of them will succeed, while the rest will continue to struggle. Learn why this happens and how to prevent this from happening to you in this article about the biggest guitar teaching mistake.
4 Mistakes Guitar Teachers Make In Their Guitar Lesson Ads That You Must Avoid
Wish you had a lot more guitar students in your teaching schedule? Then you absolutely must learn how to make your guitar lesson ads highly effective. Discover how you can get a lot more guitar students while earning tons of money in your guitar teaching business by staying awayi from the 4 most mistakes guitar teachers make in their guitar lesson ads.
How To Attract More New Guitar Students
Do you have a very hard time keeping your teaching schedule full of guitar students? Most guitar teachers do because they 'only' focus on advertising as much as possible. Truth is, you will only attract a lot of guitar students when you can do, show and prove 6 things. Learn what these things are by reading this article about attracting new guitar students.
Why You Struggle To Get Guitar Students
Do you struggle to attract a lot of new guitar students? Do your guitar teaching ads and website not seem to really work like you want them to? Are you sick of constantly having to put effort into promotion and aren't getting enough students from it? Does it seem impossible to fill up your teaching schedule? Read this teaching article to discover how to increase your ability to get guitar students.
How To Instantly Improve Your Guitar Teaching Business By Eliminating These Top 9 Mistakes Guitar Teachers Usually Make
Are you struggling to be a highly successful guitar teacher? Do you want to have more new dedicated guitar students who remain committed for the long term, but your guitar teaching methods are not working as effectively as you would like them to? Are you unhappy because most guitar students don't reach their musical goals and/or an advanced level of guitar playing? Read this guitar teaching article to build your own highly successful guitar teaching business.
Ready to get serious about your guitar teaching? Learn how to teach guitar, build a highly successful guitar teaching business, get guitar students to come to you and make money teaching guitar.
Earn a great living teaching guitar lessons.