We have a new official study program in our country that tells every school to teach guitar chords somewhere between 7th to 9th grade. Sounds great! But as there was no detailed plan how to make it happen, I put a project together and got some funds to educate music teachers for free. All in [...]
Read more →I am developing a special course for children and will eventually publish a book. Before that I do a couple of live courses to adjust my material and ideas to the real life. Here is an example what we achieved in 8 lessons (June 2011). I started to record our work from the first gathering:
Read more →I have been talking about the general build-up of a good guitar lesson as well as about setting and achieving goals. Now let’s take a closer look at the direct responsibilities of a guitar teacher. In case you are lucky enough to have a guitar teacher, what would be your expectations? Here is my list [...]
Read more →It can seem like a difficult question but nothing can be easier to answer if we use some logic and deduction. We could begin like this: The best guitar lesson is the one that helps to achieve the set goals. Then we have to ask two further questions – 1) Who’s goals and 2) What [...]
Read more →A (guitar)teacher should always know more than the students and often this is the case. However, young people crawl around the Web, talk to many people and have opinion on everything. How to beat them? The only way is to keep reading. Education is a life-time process and if you give up, you’ll be in [...]
Read more →The most common way to learn to play the guitar or any other instrument is to get a good teacher and attend lessons. Of course, you should practice on your own between lessons. Lesson is just a short happy occasion when you meet your teacher, get your homework evaluated and what else? Let’s see what [...]
Read more →Everyone who’s ever been to a school knows that he or she is not the only student in the classroom. In bad cases you may be one of 40 but if we take an average countryside school here in Estonia, you may be lucky enough to study together with less than 10 classmates. But what [...]
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