How to Make a Living Teaching Guitar

A step-by-step ebook guide that will help you to establish yourself as a Private Guitar Tutor in a way that is professional, enjoyable and profitable. What readers say about it View List of Contents View Sample Chapter

How to Make a Living Teaching Guitar Ebook (2009 Edition. Revised and updated) Still Only $19.00! including 2 months email consultation

TABLE OF 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?

3 PREPARATION

Banking
Teaching from your own home
Going out to clients’ homes to teach
Renting a studio
Teaching in schools
Teaching for someone else
Materials
Scheduling and Accounts
Brass tacks

4 ADVERTISING

Where to advertise
What to advertise
How big and for how long?
Other methods of promotion
Establishing a reputation

5 PROFESSIONALISM

Pricing
Payment, Scheduling and Cancellation policy
Handling enquiries

6 WHAT TO TEACH

Teach from well within your skill sphere
The All-Important First Lesson
Why students re-book
And why they don’t
Setting goals
Your student's development as a musician
From general goals to specific instructions
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 counseling role
Chatting
Emotional involvement
Scheduling and payment
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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