Teaching Your First 10 Guitar Lessons

Help brand new guitar students get started within the first 10 lessons

This 11-lesson course will help brand new guitar students get started within the first 10 lessons. In this course, we will outline some of the most essential fundamental skills and the best way to teach them to a student. Doing so will give them the best possible start on the instrument. It will also ensure that they have faith in you as a teacher as you confidently teach them all the basics and help them navigate the beginner phase.

Course outline

Lesson 1: Getting to Know the Student
Lesson 2: Parts of the Guitar
Lesson 3: How to Sit with a Guitar
Lesson 4: How to Pick
Lesson 5: How to Fret Notes
Lesson 6: How to Navigate the Fretboard
Lesson 7: How to Strum
Lesson 8: How to Read Music
Lesson 9: How to Learn and Memorise Things
Lesson 10: How to Play a Scale
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Teaching Your First 10 Guitar Lessons was created by

Michael Gumley

Founder and CEO of Melbourne Guitar Academy and Head of Guitar at TopMusic

Michael Gumley is founder at Melbourne Guitar Academy, creator of Guitar Dojo Online and Guitar Ninjas, and TopMusic’s Head of Guitar. He rocked his start at guitar playing at age 15 and was instantly hooked. Michael brings his passion for music and love of all things guitar to every lesson, and seeks to help students capture that same excitement and wonder on their own journeys.

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Welcome!

Michael Gumley, here. Join me as we break down how to teach a student's first 10 guitar lessons. When it comes to teaching guitar, unless you have specific marketing targeting a specific audience, the majority of the students you will teach will be total beginners. It is much better to teach a student the right way from the beginning than to spend a lot of time, effort, and energy trying to fix bad habits they’ve learned from YouTube, from other teachers, or developed as a result of learning on their own. In this course, we will outline some of the most essential fundamental skills and the best way to teach them to a student. Doing so will give them the best possible start on the instrument. It will also ensure that they have faith in you as a teacher as you confidently teach them all the basics and help them navigate the beginner phase. First impressions count. And if you make a great impact in the first handful of lessons, you can set your students up to be customers for life!

HOW TO BEGIN

Are you ready to get started? Just click the Enrol in course button below to activate your course. Then click Start Course to begin learning. If you’re on our app, click the Start Course button to enrol in the course and then Start Course again to begin the first lesson.

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Teaching Your First 10 Guitar Lessons

Help brand new guitar students get started within the first 10 lessons

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Teaching Your First 10 Guitar Lessons was created by

Michael Gumley

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