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3-Day Intensive Workshop
with TeachGuitar.com's
NICK MINNION
BRIGHTON UK
October 24th - 26th 2008
COURSE CONTENT
Day 1: BASICS 1 (How to teach)
- Working in the right mental space
- Avoidance of over instruction
- Pacing
- Instruction and control
- Controlling your attention
- Monitoring student attention
- Breaking things down
- Teaching practice sessions
- Q&A Session on How to Teach
Day 2: BASICS 2 (What to teach)
- Five lines of development
- Physical
- Conceptual
- Creative
- Aural
- Cultural
- Getting the right mix of these lines for each student at each stage of their progress
- Exploring your guitar playing skill sphere
- Discerning the students skill sphere
- Assessments
- How to work out the right thing to teach any student next
- Sequencing what you teach correctly
- First lesson as sales action
- First lesson for the very young student
- First lesson for the intermediate/advanced student
- Teaching practice
- Q&A session on What to Teach
Day 3: DEVELOPING YOUR SKILLS (Advanced Teaching and Business)
Improvising and Lead Guitar skills
- Why teach improvising?
- The elements of improvising
- A useful method of develop improvising skills that students of all ages really love
- Teaching techniques, licks, phrasing and timing
- Chord-based improvising
- Lead guitar development
- Teaching archetypal solos
- How to create training solos
Teaching Theory
- Natural hierarchy of theory elements determines order of teaching
- Use it or lose it
- How you can get your student to learn to love theory
- Any specific elements of theory that course participants have found troublesome (open discussion)
Business
- Marketing
- Professionalism
- Maintaining boundaries
- Prospering
Looking forward
- Individual assessment of your strengths and weaknesses
- Action plan to carry forward ideas from the course into success in your teaching practice
LEARNING METHODS
The running of the course will include:
- short pithy talks aided by flip chart diagrams (not long lectures).
- live demonstrations
- lots of interactive drills between participants (taking it in equal turns to be student and teacher).
- group discussions
- a short 1:1 mentoring session with Nick to discuss your action plan.
Of course, if you are signing up and want anything added to the course coverage, I am very much still open to feedback. The course is for you.
Final note. Please don't be put off by the idea of learning 'BASICS' - I know that many of you are already quite experienced as guitar teachers. The course will be structured to benefit teachers and musicians of all levels.
Click here
to reserve a place at the special early registration rate.
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