How To Make a Living Teaching Guitar

How to Make a Living Teaching Guitar

CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION
Welcome

2. BEFORE YOU START (free sample chapter)
Is your guitar playing good enough?
Can you teach ?
Building your confidence
Are you ready to run your own business?
What about the formalities?
Important note

3. PREPARATION
Banking
Space and Equipment
Materials
Scheduling and Accounts
Brass tacks

4. ADVERTISING
Where to advertise
What to advertise
How big and for how long?
Other methods of promotion

5. PROFESSIONALISM
Pricing
Payment, Scheduling and Cancellation policy
Handling enquiries

6. WHAT TO TEACH
The All-Important First Lesson
Setting goals
Your student's development as a musician
Music theory you should know

7. SAMPLE SYLLABUS
Physical Development
Conceptual Development
Creative Development

8. HOW TO TEACH
Doing it
Control
Stretching but not breaking
Musical terms and meanings of words
Teaching beginners
Teaching kids
Teaching experienced players
Teaching advanced players
Perception of progress

9. WHAT TO AVOID
The counselling role
Emotional involvement
Time wasters and charity cases
Too steep the hill…too small the shovel

10. WHAT NEXT
Ready to start?
How to contact the author

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