This book is a revised edition of Desi Serna's original 2001 release, How to Make Money Teaching Guitar, which was one of the very first coaching materials on the market geared toward guitar teachers. Through a step-by-step process, and using a positive and encouraging tone, Desi and his new coauthor, Donnie Schexnayder, guide you through the ins and outs of teaching and illuminate the professional and personal benefits that guitar instruction can offer you. How To Teach Guitar and Start Your Own Music Instruction Business is the definitive guide to starting your own small business teaching the guitar. Discover how to: - Start your teaching business with a proven strategy for success. - Determine when you are ready to teach lessons. - Bring your teaching skills to the next level. - Develop lesson plans and student materials. - Organize your teaching space with both your students and their parents in mind. - Design clear studio policies that minimize common problems. - Learn the best marketing strategies to attract your first students. - Schedule your lessons with fewer headaches. - Set your lesson fees for your market. - Much more! You may have any number of reasons for wanting to teach the guitar. Maybe you want to earn some extra money in your spare time. Perhaps you want to use your skills as a musician to help others. Maybe you see teaching as a way to round out your career as a musician. Whatever your reasons, this book can be your passport to a whole new experience with music and your work. Becoming a guitar teacher has may benefits: - Improve your own guitar skills. - Earn money while doing something you love. - Become your own boss. - Set your own hours. - Work from home. - Control how much money you earn. - Make a difference in other people's lives. - Boost your success as a gigging musician. - Specialize in a field that doesn't need formal training or a college degree. - Start your own business with very little up-front money. Desi Serna and Donnie Schexnayder have written this book to take you from the beginning, from never having taught guitar before, to your first ten paying guitar students. The 90-day action plan takes you one step at a time towards establishing your new teaching studio. It has never been easier to start teaching the guitar! Response to Negative Reviews Within a week of its release detractors began a campaign against the book and its authors through the Amazon.com review system. They systematically reported abuses on the book's many positive reviews until those reviews were removed, and began submitting their own negative reviews, with the main objective of harming book sales and the reputation of the authors. The authors, Desi and Donnie, offer responses to these detractors' most common criticisms here: http: //howtoteachguitar.com/response-to-critics/

If you can play guitar (just a little bit) and want to make money teaching, this is the book for you! You can get started right away and make great money playing guitar! I show you everything you need to know to get started, get the students and teach the lessons. I have helped many teachers get their start and I reveal the best techniques for teaching and running your own successful guitar lesson business! I still remember the very first experience that I ever had with teaching a guitar lesson! I was only sixteen years old when a friend of my family watched me play a few simple riffs on my guitar. That was all it took! He immediately asked me to give him lessons. I couldn't believe it! A forty year old man was actually asking me, a sixteen year old kid, for guitar lessons! I can tell with certainty that quitting my "real job" was one of the best decisions that I ever made. I did exactly what I told my father I was going to do and I got more students. I went on to teach up to twenty-five students a week right out of my parents' basement. I was making about five times more per week than all of my friends that were working at minimum wage jobs. I was only working twenty-five hours per week (which is only part-time) and I was making nearly fifty-thousand dollars per year! I want to be clear about one thing... While I was a good guitar player, I was no virtuoso! I simply discovered that people were willing to pay me to learn what I knew about my instrument. That's the beauty of the guitar lesson business... You don't have to be the very best of players in your local area to be a very financially successful guitar instructor. You will learn how to: Set up your studio in home or in a music store Set your prices to make the most money Use my policy to maximize your profits Market your business for almost free Get more students that you can handle Make a great schedule that you love Keep the best records How to teach a lesson Where to find the best resources and Much More!!! Don't just play guitar for fun.... play guitar for profit and have fun too!

This comprehensive, illustrated text offers an in-depth look at the mechanics and musical thought process of teaching the classical guitar the "why" rather than the "how" the classical guitarist does things a certain way. In the author's words, "Classical Guitar Pedagogy is the study of how to teach guitarists to teach." This university-level text will be of enormous assistance to the teacher in explaining the musical, anatomical, technical, and psychological underpinning of guitar performance. It contains ideas and techniques to help organize your teaching more efficiently, plus tips on career development as a classical guitar teacher and performer. If you make your living as a classical guitar teacher/performer you owe it to yourself and your students to get this book.

(Berklee Guide). Teach guitar for profit! This book will show you how to set up and develop a profitable guitar studio. Besides the ability to teach guitar, running a profitable studio needs effective systems for attracting and retaining students, ensuring that they pay on time, and smoothly handling operations issues. This book will show you the essential considerations, from choosing a space (residential or commercial), to marketing, to specific teaching aids. You will learn to: Develop and outfit an efficient studio; Set policies to get timely payments and encourage student retention; Attract students who are likely to remain long-term; Develop an authentic teaching approach customized to your own students; Find multiple revenue streams from your students, beyond lessons; Avoid common expensive mistakes.

Many guitarists think they can teach guitar just because they play guitar, and play better than their potential student. This isn't so. Teaching is a skill that requires a lot of hard work and dedication, just the same as playing guitar. Rick shares expertise from his more than 35 years teaching guitar and 25 years running his own studio. With Rick's book you will get an insider's view on how to get a great job teaching or start your own studio. You will learn how to develop an amazing core curriculum, how to be an excellent teacher, how to handle the business side of things, and much more! Rick's enthusiasm for teaching is contagious, and you will walk away excited to launch your own guitar teaching career! You will LEARN HOW TO: Be an exceptional guitar teacher, develop a fantastic core teaching curriculum, make excellent money only working 20 hours a week, and open your own guitar lesson studio or get a great job as a guitar teacher. You will also learn how to handle the business side of a being a teacher, how to promote and advertise yourself, how to keep your student retention high, and how to give and receive joy through teaching! Teach Guitar is a practical and inspiring guide to all things to do with teaching guitar. Let Rick's enthusiasm for teaching help spark the same joy and excitement for you, and help you become an amazing guitar teacher!