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TPD-02 Make Haste Slowly

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About this guide

This guide will discuss an important principle teachers and students should understand. If you can apply the ideas and philosophy behind this principle in your lessons, not only will your students become better guitarists, but your job as a guitar teacher will become easier.

The principle you learn in this guide can help with situations such as:

  • When a student always wants to look at what's next
  • When a student feels like they have hit a plateau
  • When it looks like a student has talent and effortlessly progresses
  • When a student feels like they haven't progressed

All of the above are problems all relating to the same issue. This guide will explain what that issue is and how to deal with it.

The goal of this guide is to give you an important principle that can improve the quality of your lessons. By the end of this guide you will have a clearer understanding of how to structure your lessons and how to control the rate a student progresses.

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TTL-03 Video as a Teaching Tool

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Video is an extremely useful medium to enhance your lessons. Whether you teach in-person, online via Skype or sell guitar based courses online, video can greatly improve the quality of your lessons.

In this guide we will look at various ways you can use video with your students as well as how to get the most out of YouTube.

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TPS-05 Understanding Motivation

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Understanding motivation will help you with your students in and outside of lessons. Motivation plays a massive role in practicing, showing up to lesson and even deciding to start lessons in the first place. There are quite a few factors to consider with motivation and properly understanding motivation will help you get better performance out of your students.

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TTQ-07 Disadvantages to rote learning

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Rote learning is incredibly prevalent in education. It can help children memorize the alphabet, learn times tables, spell words and many other things. Rote learning is important with guitar lessons as well, however there are significant disadvantages to rote learning all guitar teachers need to understand. These are problems guitar teachers often don't realize exist so it's important you read through this guide.

This guide will explain the disadvantages to over-focusing on rote learning, what problems it can cause and how to overcome those problems. You will also learn how to take advantage of these issues to actually gain new students.

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TTL-07 Using Looper Pedals

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A looper pedal is a fantastic teaching tool that can give you excellent control over how you teach. Being able to record and instantly play back your student's playing can dramatically increase the student's learning rate. In this guide you will find out how to make the most out of a looper pedal in your lessons. You will be able to use a looper pedal to improve the quality of your lessons and give you flexibility not otherwise possible.

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TTL-06 Fretlight Guitars

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Fretlight guitars allow you to connect a guitar to a computer and light up the fretboard to display scales, chords or even a Guitar Pro score. From a guitar teacher's point of view Fretlight guitars present a unique way to enhance your lessons. We have contacted over 40 guitar teachers who have completed Fretlight's Teacher Certification Program to find out whether Fretlight guitars really are worthwhile for a guitar teacher.

In this guide you will find out exactly how other guitar teachers are using Fretlight guitars, what benefits they have found and what to avoid. If you have never heard of Fretlight before, this guide will give you the information you need to decide if a Fretlight guitar is right for you or not. If on the other hand you've been considering getting a Fretlight guitar to use in your lessons, find out what other guitar teachers think of them to help you make the right decision. If you already have a Fretlight guitar, this guide will share best practices to help you get the most out of your Fretlight guitar.

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TTQ-06 Student Retention Strategies

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Your existing students are far more valuable to you than any new students. Businesses know that holding on to an existing customer is far easier than trying to find a new customer and as a guitar teacher you should think the same way. This guide will explain how to apply some effective student retention strategies so you can keep your students longer. By successfully applying these strategies you can spend less time worrying about finding new students.

The guitar teachers who understand and apply these strategies have a far greater chance of filling up their timetable and keeping it that way. Student retention is more important than promoting yourself to new students so read through these strategies and apply them straight away.

Why Student Retention Matters

It probably already seems obvious that student retention is important, but it only becomes clear how important it is when you consider something known as 'lifetime value'. In the guide BMK-00 Lifetime Value of a Student you can work out the lifetime value of a student and see exactly how much of an impact retention has on your income.

Out of all the ways you can raise your income as a guitar teacher, increasing student retention is the most powerful. If you can keep your students for longer, you'll significantly strengthen your financial position and won't need to stress as much about finding new students.

Keeping an existing student is far more valuable to you than trying to find new students. With this in mind, let's look at how to keep your students for longer.

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TGP-02 Keys to Group Success

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This guide follows on from TGP-01 and looks at what makes successful group guitar lessons. Teaching a group of students takes a different skill set to teaching individual lessons so to be able to give an effective group lesson you need to understand what skills are required. This guide will explain what it takes to successfully give effective group lessons.

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TGP-01 Setting Up Group Lessons

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If you have decided to start offering group lessons (read BPL-06 to help make this decision), you may wonder how to get started and properly set up your group lessons. This guide will give you a starting point and will cover important aspects such as:

  • Setting up an appropriate location
  • Working out group sizes
  • Equipment
  • Seating arrangement
  • Setting expectations

Group lessons can be more challenging compared to one-on-one lessons however as explained in BPL-06 group lessons give you the possibility to earn more money, teach more students and potentially enjoy lessons more. The key to success with group lessons is being prepared and the TGP series will help you prepare effectively.

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TBE-04 Teaching Scales

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There are many different ways you can teach your students scales and there is no one right way to do it. This guide will explain two main approaches to teaching scales. Even know you may already teach scales using a certain method, it's best if you read these methods with an open mind as you might learn an approach that is more effective than what you are using now. Having two different approaches to teaching scales will give you greater flexibility as a teacher as you will be able to choose the method that's best for each individual student's needs and goals.

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