It’s known that 90% of beginners will quit playing guitar. Let’s dive into the reasons why and some possible solutions.

The great vibrato myth and how you can train a great vibrato.

Why it’s so important to complete projects and how you can stay focussed on what’s important with guitar practice.

How using accents can help you improve your accuracy when practising with a metronome.

How Bruce Lee, and a 16th century philosopher can help you be a more creative guitarist.

This is a simple speed training protocol you can use with a metronome to increase the tempo you can accurately play at.

Here is a quick “behind the scenes” look at what we’re doing in Guitar Momentum so far. Guitar Momentum is broken into four week cycles and we’re currently halfway through Cycle 1. So far we’ve had Week 1 technical exercises and Week 2 Creativity Training

Week 1 Technical Exercises

Here is an excerpt from the Week 1 exercises. These exercises are usually simple scale and arpeggio patterns. The purpose of these exercises is to take a small amount of patterns and drill them over the week, so that when it comes to using them creatively in Week 2, you have the patterns in your muscle memory.

When I started teaching guitar, I went into the process expecting some of the more obvious benefits, such as working on my own schedule and making an income, but I also found myself enjoying some unexpected benefits, which I’m going to share in this article.

Income

The most obvious benefit to becoming a guitar teacher is the extra income it created. While I made plenty of mistakes in the beginning of my guitar teaching career, eventually I was earning a pretty good income and had plenty of students coming for lessons every week.

According to Indeed.com, the average guitar teacher in the United States makes $28.51 per hour[1].

If we assume a 40 hour work week, that comes to:

40 hours x $28.51 = $1140.40/week

OR

$59,300.80/year

Not bad.

According to GlassDoor.co.uk[2], the average guitar teacher in the United Kingdom makes £33,000/year, which comes to roughly $41,000/year.

Again, that’s above average.

However, are those numbers any good? What do I mean by that?

A lot of guitar players look to teaching guitar as a way to make a part-time, or even full-time, income. Today we’ll look at 14 questions prospective guitar teachers have.

How Do I Teach Effectively?

This is one of the most important questions when it comes to teaching guitar - how to do the actual teaching.

Teaching boils down to effective communication, you have to understand:

• Where the student wants to get to
• Where the student is currently at in their understanding and ability to
• How to break down the process of getting from where they are at to where they want to be
• How to present that information to them in a way they can understand
• How to train them on that information so they can perform the ideas on guitar

Being able to teach effectively is a skill that, like any skill, takes time to learn and practice. But, like any skill, it is something that you can learn.