How To Teach Guitar and Make Money
If you have been playing guitar for a few years then you may already possess a valuable skill capable of earning you lots of extra income or even a full time job! In this series of articles I'm going to begin to show you how I and others teach guitar successfully to generate income.
Perhaps you are under the false impression that one needs to be an awesome player in order teach guitar but I can assure you that this is not at all the case. In reality 95% of people coming to you for lessons will be beginners on acoustic guitar and they will make up the mass market of people applying to you for lessons.
So long as you have been playing for a while and are confident I would suggest that it's likely you are already good enough to teach guitar to this mass market of beginners. Normally when you enter a new venture to make money it involves some kind of learning curve but, you already know how to play guitar... the skill is already there! All you need is to apply yourself to teaching it.
Here's the number one most important thing to teach guitar, even more that your playing ability, you need to be a good communicator with a friendly and approachable personality.
Not naming any names, but I personally know some absolutely amazing guitar players who are also absolutely terrible at teaching guitar. Don't believe that the best guitar players make the best guitar teachers! When you teach guitar, put yourself in the position of the student. Remember just how hard it was for you when you first started trying to change for G to C or the dreaded F and Bm. This is the first step to understanding your market and being able to teach guitar successfully.
The key is that by understanding the process from your students viewpoint you'll be able to develop effective ways for delivering information which REALLY work and be able to teach guitar as an expert.
Those of us who teach guitar enjoy some great benefits. The first one would be that it provides a valuable source of income and that you can teach guitar practically anywhere. Even in remote places youd be surprised how word can spread and the numbers of people who would be interested.
Part time or full time, when you teach guitar you have an enormous flexibility to structure your teaching hours as you like so they can fit around all your other commitments.
Another point worth mentioning is that you can adjust your fees according to the level of competition from other tutors in your area. You also have the power to control your income and raise or lower your lesson fees as you see fit should your income need a boost.
In future articles well discuss what you must do in order to prepare properly to teach guitar and well also certainly need to talk about advertising because when you teach guitar knowing how to advertise effectively will mean the difference between success and failure. - 18758
Perhaps you are under the false impression that one needs to be an awesome player in order teach guitar but I can assure you that this is not at all the case. In reality 95% of people coming to you for lessons will be beginners on acoustic guitar and they will make up the mass market of people applying to you for lessons.
So long as you have been playing for a while and are confident I would suggest that it's likely you are already good enough to teach guitar to this mass market of beginners. Normally when you enter a new venture to make money it involves some kind of learning curve but, you already know how to play guitar... the skill is already there! All you need is to apply yourself to teaching it.
Here's the number one most important thing to teach guitar, even more that your playing ability, you need to be a good communicator with a friendly and approachable personality.
Not naming any names, but I personally know some absolutely amazing guitar players who are also absolutely terrible at teaching guitar. Don't believe that the best guitar players make the best guitar teachers! When you teach guitar, put yourself in the position of the student. Remember just how hard it was for you when you first started trying to change for G to C or the dreaded F and Bm. This is the first step to understanding your market and being able to teach guitar successfully.
The key is that by understanding the process from your students viewpoint you'll be able to develop effective ways for delivering information which REALLY work and be able to teach guitar as an expert.
Those of us who teach guitar enjoy some great benefits. The first one would be that it provides a valuable source of income and that you can teach guitar practically anywhere. Even in remote places youd be surprised how word can spread and the numbers of people who would be interested.
Part time or full time, when you teach guitar you have an enormous flexibility to structure your teaching hours as you like so they can fit around all your other commitments.
Another point worth mentioning is that you can adjust your fees according to the level of competition from other tutors in your area. You also have the power to control your income and raise or lower your lesson fees as you see fit should your income need a boost.
In future articles well discuss what you must do in order to prepare properly to teach guitar and well also certainly need to talk about advertising because when you teach guitar knowing how to advertise effectively will mean the difference between success and failure. - 18758
About the Author:
The author quit his day job to become a successful full time guitar teacher more than 5 years ago without regret. For more free articles on how to teach guitar and make money be sure and visit his popular website on teaching guitar.
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