How To Teach Your Guitar Students To Practice

The following 7 questions will assess how effective you are at teaching your guitar students to practice guitar. Most guitar teachers score 2/7 on this test. How well will you do?

1. Are you able to motivate the majority of your guitar students to practice guitar in between your lessons? *

Yes, I can successfully inspire my guitar students to practice regularly most of the time.

Sometimes I can get my students to practice, but other times it is a struggle.

No, I have a very hard time with getting my guitar students to practice on a regular basis.

2. How much do you focus on teaching your guitar students “new materials” (or new information) in every lesson? *

As much as possible, so that my students really get the most from what they pay to study guitar with me.

I give my guitar students a moderate amount of new content every week, to leave some time for review of older lesson materials.

I introduce new content gradually to allow my students to master each step of the previous lesson before moving on.

None of the above.

3. When do you think your guitar students learn the most and make the most progress in their guitar playing? *

When I explain new content to them during their lessons.

When I answer their questions about the lesson materials.

When they have a lot of inner desire and self motivation.

When I tell them how to practice their lesson materials.

During the days in between the lessons.

When they hear my feedback on their guitar playing.

None of the above.

4. How do you teach your guitar students “how to practice” your lesson materials? *

I always give them detailed (written or verbal) instructions on how to practice the materials at home before moving on to the next topic of the lesson.

I often spend much of the lesson time just watching my guitar students practice even if that means I don’t teach them anything new in that lesson.

I give my guitar students easy to implement practice approaches that can be applied to all things they are practicing.

None of the above.

5. When your student struggles with playing the previous lesson’s materials for you in the lesson, what do you do? *

I try to inspire the student to practice the material more next time.

I move on to the next thing in the lesson plan and come back to this same item during the next lesson.

I will ask my student to play the exercise (or music) over and over in front of me so that I can point out his/her mistakes.

I will give my student less advanced material that is within his/her ability to play.

None of the above.

6. Which of the following is the “most” important skill that you need to teach your guitar students about practicing guitar? *

How to avoid making mistakes in their guitar playing.

How to use the metronome correctly.

How to solve their guitar playing problems.

How to organize their guitar practice materials to get the most from their guitar practice time.

How to develop the discipline needed to practice every day.

How to create a practice schedule.

All of the above.

None of the above.

7. After you finish teaching a student something new in the lesson, what do you do next? *

I will move on to the next (new) part of the lesson after the student tells me that he/she understands the new material.

I will find a song with some examples of the concept that I have taught the student and teach it to him/her.

I will ask my guitar students some questions about the new material, to make sure that they “really” understand the lesson.

I will ask the student to practice the new material right in front of me in the lesson.

None of the above.

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