Want to make a good living teaching guitar while getting the best results for your students? Use the following ideas to begin:
1. Create Unique Lesson Plans To Help Students Reach Their Goals
It’s a frequently-made mistake to use cookie-cutter lesson plans for every student. This doesn’t work because all guitar students have specific musical goals and personalities that affect how they learn best. Rather than teaching them with a generic approach, inquire about their specific musical goals during or before their first lesson with you. Then put together a specific lesson plan to help them achieve their goals and show them as they make progress along the way.
Your guitar students become incredibly motivated when they know you are helping them achieve what they want AND you are showing them their progress consistently. This results in faster progress and a better reputation for you (=more students and more money).
2. Learn How To Teach Different Types Of Students
Every student learns in a different way. Some are easily discouraged by mistakes or become overwhelmed by the idea of challenging practice. These types need extra encouragement and tons of early victories to build their confidence. Other students already have confidence in their abilities and are able to practice tedious exercises when they know it will help them in the long run.
It’s your job as a guitar teacher to know which student you are working with and teach them in a way that gets the best results. Focus closely on this aspect of teaching until spotting student types becomes easy for you. The better you get at this, the faster your students will make progress.
3. Master Teaching Beginner Guitar Students
Teaching beginner guitar students is crucial if you want to make tons of money in your guitar teaching business. There are tons of beginner students out there (more than any other type). When you master teaching beginner guitar students, you have access to more total students, quickly fill your teaching schedule and keep it full for a long time to come.
Read this article about how to teach barre chords on guitar to learn the right way to teach chords to your students so they become excited about learning and take lessons with you for years to come.
About The Author:
Tom Hess is an electric guitar teacher online and recording artist. He trains guitar players from around the world how to reach their musical goals in his correspondence guitar lessons online. Visit his website tomhess.net to receive many free guitar playing resources and read daily tips to help you improve your musical skills on the Official Tom Hess Facebook page.