Sounds like a great idea but just how good do you need to be before you feel entitled to charge money for your fretboard knowledge and expertise? Is it better for a teacher to know everything about all modes in all keys or for them to be aware of a bunch of easy guitar songs and progressions that their students would benefit from learning?
If you take a look around there are some fantastic guitar players out there and it can be a little frightening to decide that that you are going to start a guitar teaching business. After all "Who are you to set yourself up as someone that people should seek out for instruction and guidance? What makes you so special?"
The truth is that the best technical and theoretical guitar players do not always make the best guitar teachers. epiphone guitars Teaching guitar to someone else is not about your own playing but about making the student's playing better and to do that you need something other than just the ability to fly around the neck at warp speed ten whilst reciting out loud the scale spelling for a Db lochrian mode.
The fact is that GUITAR TEACHING IS ABOUT GUITAR LEARNING, pure and simple. Sucessful education does not depend upon how well the teacher can play but on what the student learns.
Prior to deciding to teach guitar it is important to sit down and spend a little bit of time realistically assessing just where you (and your attitudes, attributes and capabilities) might fit into the bigger picture.
Lose your Ego (Ego will encourage you to claim to be competent in areas that you are not really comfortable and confident in). Equally you should ……..
Disregard your Insecurity and false modesty (which as the other side of the ego coin could end up in a situation where you underestimate your own capabilities and potential). No one will mind if you decide that you are not good enough to be a guitar teacher if you actually are but don't complain when your neighbouhood fills up with "worse" musicians then you who teach themselves out of a dayjob
Given that you can form a sensible attitude to ego and insecurity and as a result can go on to develop an honest opinion with regard to your own circumstances then it is time to turn your attention to the important task of identifying the types of student that will benefit most from your lessons.
The secret of a healthy guitar teaching business is in being able to attract (and retain?) the right students. To attract those people who would benefit from the things that you can comfortably teach them. The situation genuinely is that simple.
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