About Teaching

I studied many hundreds of books on music education, psychology, pedagogy, thinking styles, creativity, time-management, neuroscience, etc. This blog is for music teachers who want to improve their skills, services and results with their students. This blog is also for guitar students who want to know what makes a great music teacher.

Why Learning Music Theory Without Learning Songs Is a Terrible Idea

Why Learning Music Theory Without Learning Songs, Is a Terrible Idea I once had a student who felt that he’d rather spend lesson time on learning theory than on learning the songs we had covered in the past lesson. He had just learned Crosstown Traffic and the riff to Message in a Bottle. He felt Why Learning Music Theory Without Learning Songs Is a Terrible Idea

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GuitarVoyage.com: My Guitar Video Lessons Site

GuitarVoyage.com: My Guitar Video Lessons Site It’s been god knows how many years, that friends have been telling me that I should start a subscription video lessons site. I always shrugged it off with: “It’s too much work”, “I don’t have time”, or “I wouldn’t even know how to get that all started”. Well, it’s GuitarVoyage.com: My Guitar Video Lessons Site

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Tips for If You Need Motivation to Practice

Tips for If You Need Motivation to Practice I can always tell immediately when a student is starting to lose drive and motivation. That student’s energy changes over the course of a couple of weeks, progress comes to a halt, lesser positive attitudes and insecurities start to muddy up communication with the teacher during lessons. Tips for If You Need Motivation to Practice

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Optimize Your Guitar Practice Space

Optimize Your Guitar Practice Space You want to create your perfect learning and practice space. Your environment has a huge effect on your productivity. Things like the room temperature, outside noise, and lighting all affect motivation, workflow or energy levels. Because of that: your space directly affects your productivity and success. One of the interesting Optimize Your Guitar Practice Space

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The Detriment of YouTube Learning, African Guitar, and Some Cool Guitars

African Guitar, Jamming and Some Cool Guitars The more you’re exposed to other points of view, other ways of doing things, other techniques, and other styles, the more that exposure inspires and opens up your own creativity. That is one of the many reasons why there has never been any better time to be alive. The Detriment of YouTube Learning, African Guitar, and Some Cool Guitars

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