PRO-01 Stevie Ray Vaughan Rhythm

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About this lesson plan

This lesson plan looks at how Stevie Ray Vaughan would approach rhythm parts. The focus is on blues and how a standard blues shuffle can be modified to something more interesting. If your student is interested in blues or Stevie Ray Vaughan, this lesson will help the student understand his approach to rhythm.

This guitar lesson plan will teach your student:

  • How to use muted rakes to emphasize the rhythm
  • How to move ninth chords chromatically in a musical way
  • How to embellish chords

The Teacher's Guide will help you explain the examples as well as provide your student with a way to take these ideas and apply them to other areas of guitar.

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PRO-02 Stevie Ray Vaughan Lead

New resources: Scale exercises and conversation guides

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Along with a few new guitar lesson plans, we've put a couple guides together to help you deal with a couple common issues guitar teachers face:

BQA-05 Questions on Qualifications and Experience

This is a very useful guide for any new guitar teachers as you will most likely come up against this tough question from prospective students. The guide will help you answer the student's questions in a positive way to increase the chances that they decide to give you a go. All new guitar teachers should read through this guide.

BQA-07 Negotiating Lesson Rates

While it isn't very common, some people like to haggle and try to bring your lesson rates down before starting. This can significantly impact your income if you don't prepare for it in advance. This guide will help you deal with any people trying to bring your lesson rate down.

Here's a few scale exercises to give your student's fingers a workout:

SCE-04 D Major Scale Exercises

SCE-05 A Major Scale Exercises

SCE-06 E Major Scale Exercises

 

For any students wanting to learn the Blues, this lesson plan will give a fresh perspective to the traditional 12 bar blues progression:

BLU-05 12 Bar Blues Shuffle Variation

The idea behind this variation to the traditional 12 bar blues shuffle is something Stevie Ray Vaughan would often do. Your student will learn how to included muted hits in to their playing to create a percussive sound.

BLU-05 12 Bar Blues Shuffle Variation

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About this lesson plan

This lesson will give the student a different way to play a standard 12 bar blues shuffle. The style of this progression is very similar to something Stevie Ray Vaughan would do. Your student will learn:

  • How to add muted hits to create a percussive sound
  • Different ways to use a walking bass line
  • How to develop their rhythm skills

Giving the student this lesson after completing BLU-03 will give the best results.

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BLU-03 12 Bar Blues Shuffle

SCE-06 E Major Scale Exercises

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About this lesson plan

This guitar lesson plan will help your student learn the E Major Scale using various exercises. The exercises are designed to make your student think about different intervals which can help them when improvising.

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SCE-05 A Major Scale Exercises

SCE-05 A Major Scale Exercises

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About this lesson plan

This guitar lesson plan will help your student learn the A Major Scale using various exercises. The exercises are designed to make your student think about different intervals which can help them when improvising.

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SCE-04 D Major Scale Exercises

SCE-04 D Major Scale Exercises

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About this lesson plan

This lesson plan will help your student learn the D Major Scale using various exercises. The exercises will help the student not only learn the notes in the scale, but also think about the scale using different intervals. After the student has mastered the exercises used, the student can move on to expanding their knowledge of the scale across the entire fretboard.

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SCE-03 F Major Scale Exercises

BQA-07 Negotiating Lesson Rates

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About this guide

Some prospective students will try to haggle with you and bring your lesson rate down. Even a small change in your rate can make a significant difference to your overall income over time. This guide will prepare you for people trying to bring your price down and show you how to negotiate your lesson rates in a fair way.

Why you need to be prepared

While most students will be happy to pay the rate as advertised (assuming it is a fair rate), some people will try to bring that rate down to save them money. Being caught off guard by one of these people can end up with you earning a less than fair rate. The people who try to bring your price down are the type of people who do it regularly for other products and services. They've had practice with it so have a good success rate. Unless you prepare yourself against anybody trying to talk your price down, you could end up in trouble.

A $5 discount may not sound like much but for a weekly lesson that $5 discount means you will miss out on $250 a year just from one student. You definitely wouldn't agree to giving a student $250 worth of lessons for free at the start so keep this in mind if they try to ask for a discount.

The problem is compounded if you let it happen regularly. Having five or ten students on your books each with a $5 lesson discount will cost you thousands every year. Preparing against this can really save you a lot of money.

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BQA-05 Questions on Qualifications and Experience

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This guide will help you answer any questions potential students may have about your qualifications and experience. As explained, you don't need to have any formal qualifications to teach guitar however some people may still ask for some credentials. This guide will prepare you to answer those questions.

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New lesson plans: Country style

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Here's a couple new guitar lesson plans to use to introduce your student to Country style playing.

COU-01 Basic Country Style Licks

This lesson provides a broad overview of the country style of playing so you can see if your student is interested in pursuing the style or not. The licks cover rhythm and lead so the student will be able to see a few different aspects of the style.

COU-02 Chicken Pickin'

Chicken Pickin' is a type of hybrid picking used often in Country music. This lesson will teach your student how to use the technique to achieve a country sound. The lesson will also teach your student how they can change licks they already know to use Chicken Pickin'.

We have also created a new guide to help new teachers work through their first few guitar lessons.

TBE-01 Topics to Avoid in Early Lessons

 This guide will provide you with topics that can easily discourage new students. By avoiding these topics in the first few lessons, you will have a better chance of the student staying with you. The guide explains why these topics should be postponed until later lessons. If you're just getting started as a guitar teacher, this guide help you avoid a lot of problems.

TBE-01 Topics to avoid in early lessons

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About this guide

This guide will share best practices from experienced teachers on what topics you should avoid in early guitar lessons. The first few lessons you give a new student will determine whether the student stays with you or not. Teaching certain topics will increase the chances that the student stays with you. There are some topics that if taught in these first few lessons will decrease the chance that the student will stay with you. Having a firm understanding of these topics and why they might put students off future lessons is key to growing your student base. This guide will help you retain more students and improve the quality of your first few lessons with new students.

Not all students are equal

It's important to keep in mind that every student will react differently to any given topic. While some topics will turn some students off, they may actually encourage other students. Keep this in mind when reading through the topics below as there will be times when it's perfectly fine to cover the topic in the first lesson. The whole point is that these topics decrease the likeliness that a student will stay with you. Think of the topics as 'high risk' topics that could potentially turn students away.

Remember that everything doesn't need to be covered straight away and in the first few lessons you're actually better off to cover less topics and go into more detail on the topics you do cover. You can always cover these topics at a later date.

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