Lesson plans?

LundiMardi

Lesson plans?

What would you guys think would be the most important aspects to teach guitar wise to beginners?

I’ve offered my services in work to teach guitar to anyone who wants to learn, I already know what I’m going to do like…

The Anatomy of the Guitar (I think it’s important)
Strings & Tuning
Chords and their make up…

Basically I’m going to teach the very basics, go through a few different chords every week, I’m going to get them to tell me what THEY want to play and then cater for their own needs…

All the usual really!

I don’t want to stray too far into theory as they’re only picking it up as a hobby, plus I’d like them to know all the open chords before getting all technical!

What would you guys recommend? This is my first teaching experience... heh

Voodu Child

Dont forget to teach them about sticking it to the man...;)

disgruntled

I'm not a teacher so I can only speak from a students point of and the little experience I have of trying to explain chords, scales and that kind of thing to a couple of friends. Anyway I'd say after you teach them a couple of chords, move on to learning some songs using those chords and work on timing, strumming patterns and that kind of thing. After that maybe take a scale and look at how chords are constructed that kind of thing. Again try to keep it fun, mix learning theory with examples in songs. You know yourself just keep it interesting.

LundiMardi wrote:

Basically I’m going to teach the very basics, go through a few different chords every week, I’m going to get them to tell me what THEY want to play and then cater for their own needs…

Absolutely, I think you should set out your syllabus and then tailor it to each students needs. The only thing I would say is you should of course find out what they want to play and what their goals are but I think you then need to guide them towards those goals. Perhaps try to choose songs based on what they have told you that you can use to illustrate chords, scales or whatever.

LundiMardi

way ahead of ya man!

Cheers

red_ice

IMO, a good idea to teach riffs would be to put up some tabs up of scales, then show some varients of that scale.

We all have our own way of making it around the neck, but seeing someone else's ideas can inspire more complex stuff

dimerocks

i was just going t opost the same question i decided that i am going to give lessons to kids. It's as much for me as them to make me practice slower and perfect things. I was gonig to give them chords and tell them what they were and stuff. then i would give them a song with those chords in it and by the end of the week i want them to return to me with the song nailed!

ball ox

i know it sounds a bit nasty but I generally make students learn off what notes are where on the fretboard before i teach them anything, usually by giving them a chart or something, i find that this way they find it alot easier to learn chords because they are not just memorizing chord shapes but the notes contained within the chord