Guitar Teaching

Today’s question is a good question that a lot of teachers struggle with when starting out - how to structure a lesson so that the student isn’t overwhelmed, but you still cover the topics that you need to cover. Here’s the question: How could/should I structure a lesson including warm up, music theory, fingerstyle, comping and strumming without overloading the student? How to structure it correct with the appropriate portions (or percentage)?

This question came in from a reader - it’s a great question because every guitar teacher struggles with this when they’re starting out: I am struggling to judge how much to cover in a single lesson - both the lesson itself and itself and the homework / practice assignments. I don’t want to overwhelm a student, but I would also like to offer variety of areas to work on. I recognise that a lot of this is down to the individual, but wondered if there were any general pointers.