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Christmas melodies for your students to learn

A new guitar lesson plan is available which you can use to teach your students four basic Christmas melodies. Don't just give this material to your children students, give them to your teenagers and adult students! Challenge them to turn the basic melodies into interesting solos. If you have a student learning Metal, challenge them to turn Jingle Bells into a heavy metal solo. If you have an adult student learning Flamenco, challenge them to turn Silent Night into a Spanish themed piece.

Use these simple melodies as teaching tools to help your students develop their creativity. You may be surprised to find your students return in the New Year with impressive sounding versions of the melodies. Set each student the challenge to transform these simple melodies into something more.

Access the lesson material here: BAS-11 Christmas Songs

BAS-11 Christmas Songs

About this lesson

This lesson material included four very basic Christmas melodies you can teach your student during Christmas time. Although the songs are well suited to children, you can still give them to your teenager and adult students. Challenge your older students to add stylistic techniques such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, vibrato etc. to the basic melodies. This material is a fun way to try something different.

Songs included: Deck the Halls, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Jingle Bells, Silent Night.

Ideas to make the most out of this lesson plan:

  • Ask the student to use stylistic techniques instead of picking every note
  • Ask the student to try to transpose the melodies
  • Teach the student how to figure out what chords would work behind the melodies
  • Ask the student to improvise with the melodies as basic 'themes'

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New marketing guide: People buying guitars as gifts

A new marketing guide is available to help you attract new students during the Christmas holidays. A lot of children and adults will be receiving their first guitar as a present. This is a great opportunity to promote yourself as a teacher and book them in for lessons. The guide will give you detailed strategies on how to promote yourself to the people buying the guitar as a gift. They're already spending a lot of money on a guitar so they are very likely to spend some extra money for lessons with you.

Check out the guide and use the strategies to find some new students ready for 2013.

Access the guide here: BMK-11 Marketing to people buying guitars as gifts

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BMK-11 Marketing to people buying guitars as gifts

About this guide

A large portion of your students will be children and adults who started lessons after receiving a guitar as a gift. Most of the time they will receive the guitar then start looking for a teacher after realizing it's too hard to learn on their own. Essentially every guitar teacher markets to the recipient of the gift, but what if you can market your lessons to the buyer of the gift? If you can convince the person buying a guitar to prepay some lessons with you then you can straight away take your competitors out of the market.

This guide will show you in detail how you can promote your guitar lessons to the person buying a guitar as a gift. You will be able to lock in the student before they even know they're getting a guitar. If you implement this strategy you'll be taking your competitors out of the game completely.

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