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Teaching Guitar: Guitar Book & Enhanced CD

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Teaching Guitar: Guitar Book & Enhanced CD

Teaching Guitar: Guitar Book & Enhanced CD

An In-Depth Guide to Making a Living As a Professional Guitar Teacher

By Jody Fisher

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Optimizing personal income while developing a career both as a guitar teacher and musician can be rewarding, but challenging. Finally, here is a guide written by a seasoned professional---full of teaching tips, musical examples and business advice to help you run a successful teaching business. The Enhanced CD included with this book contains recorded examples, backing tracks for students to improvise over, and helpful forms for bookkeeping and tracking student attendance and progress. This in-depth guide, which explores diverse teaching situations and styles, will put you on the right path to follow your dream of making a living as a guitar teacher.

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Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN10: 0-7390-3745-5
ISBN13: 978-0-7390-3745-4
UPC: 038081259710
SKU: 00-22916

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Why we love this

This book treats guitar teaching as a genuine profession, not a side hustle. Fisher moves past the usual pedagogical content to address the business realities that determine whether a teaching practice actually sustains itself: scheduling systems, student retention, pricing strategy, and the mental load of running your own operation.

Who it's for

Guitar teachers at any stage of their career who want to transition from sporadic lessons to a structured, profitable teaching business. Whether you're brand new to private instruction or refining an existing studio, this resource bridges the gap between musical knowledge and professional practice.

How to get the most out of it

  • Use the backing tracks to demonstrate improvisation concepts in real time during lessons, then let students practice over the same recordings
  • Reference the recorded examples when explaining technique or musical concepts; hearing the right sound is faster than verbal description alone
  • Build student accountability by tracking progress with the included forms; students see tangible growth over months, not just weeks

How to use it

Use this as your reference manual during the first year of independent teaching. Keep the bookkeeping forms on hand and return to specific chapters whenever you face a recurring challenge, from student motivation issues to scheduling conflicts.

Skills your students will build

  • reading and interpreting diverse guitar notation styles
  • improvisation over backing tracks
  • foundational technique through guided examples

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