Optimizing personal income while developing a career both as a guitar teacher and musician can be rewarding, but challenging. Finally, here is a guide written by a seasoned professional---full of teaching tips, musical examples and business advice to help you run a successful teaching business. The Enhanced CD included with this book contains recorded examples, backing tracks for students to improvise over, and helpful forms for bookkeeping and tracking student attendance and progress. This in-depth guide, which explores diverse teaching situations and styles, will put you on the right path to follow your dream of making a living as a guitar teacher.

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/

(Music Sales America). This book has been specially created for any guitarist who wants to learn note reading, be they beginners or more advanced players who have neglected this part of their musicianship. It starts with the very basics of written music and progressively introduces notes on each string one at a time until all notes in the "open position" (first five frets) of the guitar have been mastered, and up to 8th note rhythm subdivisions have been learned and applied. Also covered are sharps, flats, key signatures, accidentals, repeats and more. Each step includes practical exercises, handy tips and tricks and a simple repertoire for students to put their reading skills into practice. Spiral open so it lays flat no matter what page you're on.

2004 Silver Award Winner for Best Instructional Materials by Acoustic Guitar Magazine.Correct Practice is what all good players do, whether they know they are doing it or not! That's how they get to be good players. Whether you are a beginner or a player with the usual problems, here is your Foundation book, "The Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar!"- for ALL styles and ALL levels. "The Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar" is composed of three elements:Understandings: Concepts which you must understand in order to begin to practice effectivelyTools: Practice Approaches to be used to solve problems in playing. These approaches are based on certain key Understandings, such as Muscle Memory and Sympathetic Tension, as well as Attention and Awareness.Exercises: Specific routines to be done during practice, that will build technique, (playing ability) in a step by step fashion, each step building on the previous one, and preparing for the next.

As guitar instruction increases in popularity in secondary schools, many band, choir, and orchestra teachers are asked to teach guitar. In one helpfully concise volume, Teaching Beginning Guitar Class: A Practical Guide provides all of the practical tools that are necessary to teach guitar in the classroom, especially for music instructors who are not guitar specialists. Formatted to follow the school year from summer planning to opening weeks of the fall semester to a week-to-week timeline for the full school year, Teaching Beginning Guitar Class encompasses all possible needs for a non-guitar playing music instructor navigating the world of guitar instruction in a classroom setting. In twelve expertly organized chapters, author and veteran guitar teacher Bill Swick gives hard and fast guides for instruction, providing reassurance alongside invaluable tips for novice guitar educators. This book addresses questions such as 'I Do Not Play Guitar, Why Do I have to Teach Guitar?'; 'What is the Classroom Lifespan of a Guitar?'; and 'New Students in January?' while also providing practical solutions including basic setup, how to select the correct method book, and equipment maintenance.

Designed for beginners, this interactive book and streaming video course, in an easy lesson format, is all that you will need to get started playing the guitar! Music professor and guitar instructor, Damon Ferrante guides you through 100 step-by-step, easy-to-follow lessons and streaming video lessons that are the perfect introduction to playing the guitar. His method, used by thousands of guitar students and teachers, will will greatly improve your guitar technique, song repertoire, creativity, and understanding of music. Each lesson is interactive, engaging and fun! You learn how to play the guitar through learning songs. No music reading is required! Ask yourself this: 1. Have you always wanted to learn how to play the guitar, but did not know where to start? 2. Did you start guitar lessons once and give up because the lessons were too difficult? 3. Are you struggling to follow online guitar lessons that seem to jump all over the place without any sense of direction or consistency? 4. Would you like to expand your musical understanding and learn how to play the guitar through an affordable, step-by-step book and video course? If your answer to any of the these questions is yes, then this guitar book and video course is definitely for you. Scroll up to get your copy today!

Well-respected educator and best-selling author Jerry Snyder has put together the most versatile guitar method available. This comprehensive method for classroom or individual study comes in two sections: the first section teaches chords and accompaniment, while the second teaches note reading. This flexible method allows you to start with either section or use both sections simultaneously. The Teacher's Guide helps the instructor develop and organize a guitar class curriculum and provides background on the guitar class, teaching tips, elements of music and how to address the National Standards for Arts Education. The Teacher's Guide also includes 48 pages of reproducible worksheets. The ensemble book offers graded duets, trios and quartets as well as optional parts for bass.