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Teaching Complete Beginners Guitar
One of the big mistakes I have seen many teachers make when starting to teach new guitar students is giving too much material too quickly. You don’t want to overwhelm a new
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Getting to know them and putting them at ease.
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Describing the parts of the guitar, the string names and holding the instrument.
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How to tune the guitar would be covered but at a basic level.
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At the end of the lesson I would show them a couple of chords
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I would take these chords and show them how to change between them.
The Importance Of One To One Tuition
This last point above is important because nothing beats one to one tuition. You need to have at your disposal methods and ideas that either cannot be found online or information that is very relevant to the individual pupil you are teaching. You need to be able to build upon the basics that are found in thousands of video lessons, but personalise them for the student before you. If you can’t do this, why should the pupil come for guitar lessons?
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