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Submitted by: Stuart Bahn

How to become a guitar teacher? The answer is much simpler than you might think. Unlike certain careers there are no formal qualifications that are required. This is potentially a good and bad depending on the individual. It’s good because it means that you can become a guitar teacher simply by marketing yourself as one. It’s bad because it means that just about anybody can decide that they are a guitar teacher, including guitarists that are not suited to the role.

If you are thinking about becoming a guitar teacher, consider what makes a good guitar teacher. First and foremost is of course to be advanced enough on your instrument to be able to teach students. Second is to prepare suitably. This means an appropriate teaching area, suitable teaching material to give to learners as they progress, resources such as MP3s, backing tracks, etc. Third is to be able to deliver guitar lessons well. This means having patience, the ability to explain guitar playing clearly.

This third area is far more elusive than the first two. Nobody is born with perfect aptitude for becoming a guitar teacher. Your ability to teach guitar is something to continue to develop over time. When a guitar lessons goes well, consider what helped. When a guitar lesson goes not so well, ask yourself why not, and what could you do differently next time.

Provided you are willing to continue to develop your ability to teach guitar well, becoming a guitar teacher can be a very good career or supplemental income for a guitarist. Provide your lessons are good, teaching guitar is potentially a very reliable form of income for many guitarists. Student retention is what will determine your longterm success.

Most students that come to you for guitar lessons will be beginners. It’s essential therefore that you have well-defined series of lessons that guides beginners through to a moderate level of guitar playing ability. For many this will mean a large body of chord-based repertoire. You can gather together accurate chord charts for a well-known songs that cover a wide range of chords; from open major and minor chords through to moveably extended chords. In addition your students may be interested in blues music. You can prepare material that show various approaches to performing 12-bar blues, including turnarounds and chord substitutions.

Electric guitarists will probably be interested in riff/rock-based repertoire. Again, source or prepare suitable material that covers a range of difficulty levels. You should also prepare material to teach the most common scales and arpeggios that are used in soling, as well as suitable vocabulary for each.

Material for classical guitarists is commonplace. High quality material is readily available from various exam boards such as ABRSM, in levels of difficulty from grades 1-8.

You do not have to have years worth of material prepared in advance, rather you should continue to add to your material over time. Continue to build your library and continue to refine your approaches to teaching guitar. Provided you do this and conduct yourself professionally, there is no reason why you can’t become a guitar teacher today and build a successful career and business teaching guitar.

About the Author: Stuart Bahn is a professional guitar teacher in London, England. He is the creator of Be A Guitar Teacher, the world’s first complete audio-visual course on how to become a guitar teacher

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