Test Your Guitar Teaching Skills

Although there can be several good choices, which one is the MOST effective in helping most of your students fix the majority of guitar playing problems?

1. When trying to fix a student's problem, what should be dealt with first?

The biggest cause of a problem.
The most fundamental issue (for example holding the pick correctly versus picking motion effectiveness).
The cause which is mental in nature.
The cause which is physical in nature.
The cause which is fastest and easiest for the student to change/fix.

2. Which of the following is most likely to help your guitar students become better guitar players?

Give your students a LOT of new things to practice each week.
Develop a personal 'friendship-like' relationship with your students.
Keep your students actively taking lessons for a long period of time.
Give your students what they 'want' to learn.
Give your students what they 'need' to learn.

3. Which of the following guitar teaching formats brings the best results for most guitar students?

Private guitar lessons (one-on-one)
Group guitar lessons
None of the above

4. Which of the following things do the majority of ADVANCED guitar students want MOST from a guitar teacher?

To learn advanced guitar playing concepts.
To learn advanced 'musical' concepts that are not specific to playing guitar (songwriting, advanced music theory, etc.).
To learn how to apply the things they already know how to play.
To learn how to overcome frustrating problems they can't seem to resolve on their own very well.
To learn how to use their music talents in life (become a professional musician or a guitar teacher).

5. When do you teach beginning guitar students what they 'want' to learn and when do you teach them what they 'need' to learn?

In my lessons I often alternate teaching them things they 'want' to learn with things they 'need' to learn.
I explain that what they need to learn 'is' what they want to learn because it directly relates to the student's own goals.
I teach my students whatever they 'want' to learn. They are paying for the lessons, therefore I should only teach them what they want to learn.
I make a deal with my students. I tell them that I will teach them what they 'want' to learn after they learn and practice what they 'need' to learn.

6. When is the best time to teach guitar students to apply what they have learned to real music?

Before the student has mastered the music that he/she is learning.
After the student has mastered the physical ability to play what has been learned.
After the student has mastered the theoretical and mental concepts behind what has been learned.
After the student has mastered the physical ability, theoretical and mental concepts behind what has been learned.

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