Below is a small selection of the hundreds of slides, demonstrations and areas of study contained within the 4.5 hour video course Be A Guitar Teacher.
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Be A Guitar Teacher - A complete home-study course on how to be a successful guitar teacher.
Pros and cons of storing your teaching material digitally or physically.
How to keep your guitar teaching material organised as it grows over time.
Guitar teaching material - teaching moveable chords.
Introducing and demonstrating different chord types and their character to students.
Minor pentatonics and their effect over different chord types.
Demonstration to student of effects produced by minor pentatonic phrases with different ending notes.
Demonstration to student of the clash between b3 of the minor pentatonic scale against the natural 3 of a dominant 7 chord.
Demonstrating variations of licks to create coherent solos.
Comparing the minor modes with each other and minor pentatonic, to highlight their differences.
Hypothetical case study of a student. Assessment, first lesson content and areas of study for future lessons.
Demonstration of Dorian, Aeolian and Phrygian phrase variations.
Harmonising keys, on paper and during lesson, into diatonic seventh chords.
Demonstration of A major arpeggios CAGED shapes 1-5 along the neck.
Teaching pinched harmonics with reliable technique.
Teaching arpeggios on guitar and how to practise using them.
Demonstrating I vi ii V chord progressions on the guitar fretboard.
Teaching geometry of intervals on guitar.
Handout for student showing diatonic chord root notes on the guitar fretboard.
Introducing modes to students using CAGED shape 1
Examples of chord progressions to teach students for use with modes.
Teaching students extended chords.
Teaching extended chords and voicings to students.
Teaching students to practise the harmonic minor scale in context.
Teaching students good left hand thumb position.
Teaching guitar students pinched harmonics with consistency.
Teaching diatonic thirds on the guitar, to use as an improvisational resource.
Teaching diatonic sixths on the guitar, to use as an improvisational resource.
Tension created with 2nd and 4th notes against D chord.
Teaching stacked fourths on the guitar.
Teaching diatonic tenths on the guitar.
What solos to teach students.
Case study of hypothetical student with future lesson suggestions.
Using Mixolydian in blues soloing.
Using intervallic approaches in improvising.
Teaching the fundamentals of guitar technique.
Teaching guitar students non diatonic chords in context.