Re: Guitar Teaching Tips to beginners..
Have them learn the very very boring basics...
This is the headstock its for...
These are tuners they are...
This is the 1st string, 2nd, ect.
This is how you tune them.
This is how you fret, hold a pick, hold the guitar, sit, ect
This is your first string its notes are... Here are there positions... Here is what they look like on sheet music.
Start in the very very begining. Everything people have suggested here is great info, but you have to assume that your new students know nothing.
Move at each induividuals pace, but you have to push them.
If you have never taught before I suggest having each them getting a book the same book for each of them and one for you as well and use that as a guide. It helps take the guess work out of teaching. And it gives them homework. Make out a lesson plan and homework assignments. Go through the book and black out the parts that make it easy. I do this to my brothers book. I was giving him a lesson and I asked him, "Are you reading the notes or are you reading the numbers above the notes to tell you where to place your fingers?" He replied, "Both". So I took a pen and blacked out the numbers. Later that night he told me thanks for making him learn it correctly the first time. Teach them to read from sheet music and tabs. Encourage them to want to be the best guitar player and musician they can. Most importantly make it fun!
deffinatly use a metranome when going over exercises.
Like I said use the book as a guide. Spice up the book with learning a chord as well.
Maybe somthing like this. a lesson 1 day a week for 30 min.
Week 1- parts of the guitar and what they do. How to hold the guitar, pick, sit, fret, ect. How to tune. The names of the 6 strings. What do they want to acomplish. Have them make a list of short term and long term goals. Like dailey, in a week, month, year, whatever. Who do they like to listen to, favorite music. Get to know them and try to instill confidence and trust in them.
Week 2- Tune up. Review week 1. The 1st string and its notes. Have them learn it from sheet music. Exercises on the 1st string. Home work.
Week 3. Tune up Review week 2. Repeat week 1 but with the 2nd string. Exercises for the 2nds string and the 1st string.
Week 4....
Just move at there pace and spice it up. Homework could be the chormatic scale or a Chord, but show them it first and make sure they have an idea about it before they leave. It also needs to be what you are working on for that session too.
Learning where the C major scale all over the neck is important but not at first. Teach them the most primitive basics and everything else will come a lot easier.
Oh and use a metranome!
everything mentioned in this thread is good advice, (I may be using some of this in my teaching as well thanks for the tips btw.) but they need the primitive basics first.
Keep it fun and plan ahead.
Good Luck!!!!
edm
