Thanks for watching my video “How To Give A Guitar Lesson”. It doesn’t matter whether your are getting ready for giving your first guitar lesson or if you are trying to establish yourself as a teacher who will be giving guitar lessons on a regular basis - I think my four guitar teaching principles will give you some good food for thought.
It’s kind of silly for me writing about an article about how to give a guitar lesson at this point in my life. After all, I been giving guitar lessons for quite a while by now. My main focus was on beginners and later on I also gave lessons to some more advanced players. So I think it’s fair to say that I have a good amount of experience. However, the fact of the matter is, as I was putting my Online Beginners Guitar Course together, I realized that preparing a guitar lesson for a what I would call ‘virtual student’ is very different from giving a guitar lesson to a physical person. I realized, even for a seasoned guitar teacher like me there is still new things to learn.
Here are my 4 guitar teaching principles
Always be prepared! I must admit, there were a few times here and there where I was giving a guitar lesson without sufficient preparation. I was short on time and had to rush. Now fortunately I was not new to my job, so I was able to kind of make things up on the fly. But it certainly didn’t feel right to me. After that happened a couple of times to me, I made the decision that going forward, I will always prepare well when giving a guitar lesson.
Stay focused! Make sure that there are not distractions when you give a guitar lesson. You definitely want to make sure that there are no iPads, cell phones or other devices while your are in the middle of teaching a guitar lesson. These things have no place while you and your student are focused on the task. So unless you absolutely need these things to conduct your lesson, make sure you get them out of the way.
Always be professional! Of course, I certainly don’t mean to tell you what you should and shouldn’t do. But believe me, it can get tricky when the relationship with your guitar student evolves to something outside of the guitar teaching. I become a psychiatrist, problem solver and other things before I even knew what was happening. There’s nothing wrong with making friends with a student, but keep the personal things and the guitar lessons separate.
Easy wins! It doesn’t matter whether it’s while you giving a first guitar lesson or when your student is already advanced in his learning, easy wins are always great opportunities to keep your students motivation at a high level.
As with everything in live learning how to give a guitar lesson is something that needs practice. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, learn from them and move on. Giving guitar lessons is a very rewarding tasks to me and it’s just fun to see how a student develops and gets better and better under your guidance.
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