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 all we have about 600-700 music teachers but the pilot project will teach only 50 of them. Many more were interested and I will do some courses next year too.

The pilot course is made up of 6 different subjects:

1) Accompaniment on the guitar (that is based on my most popular book so far)
2) Guitar in School (that will introduce my new method for schools)
3) Didactics (two good specialists will teach the contemporary instrumental didactics)
4) Arranging and guitar ensembles (how to lead guitar ensembles)
5) Private lessons
6) Online lessons

We will start in October 22 and finish in March 2013. The program includes lots of practical tasks and the music teachers will become quite a good players themselves. Interesting times ahead! And many new materials and books coming out soon!

The project is for Estonian teachers so the project website is in Estonian: www.koolikitarr.ee