The Teaching Guitar Workshops Program, its Clinicians, and the teachers who have attended the program are BIG NEWS!
Check out all of the coverage about the program.
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Engage Your Students with Guitar
What can the guitar bring to your music classroom? NAfME hosts a Teaching Guitar Workshop at the National Center for Music Education in Reston, Virginia….More -
Rockin’ the Classroom
Guitars are no longer strangers to school music programs………More -
PickItUp-InTune
It’s a good bet that you are going to play a guitar sometime in your life…More -
Proof Positive
Student enrollment data from Fairfax County provides tangible evidence that guitar programs increase total participation in music programs and don’t sabotage band and orchestra….More -
Mark Propst article
“A couple of years ago two of my teachers took the Teaching Guitar Workshop, and when they returned they supported a course proposal for guitar. We decided schools could start offering a guitar curriculum if they wanted,” Propst said….More -
Reel Students in with Guitar
“Are your upper elementary and middle school students too cool for school?” asks MENC member Suzanne Shull. “Out-cool them by putting guitars in their hands.” Shull shares some tips to get students started on the most popular and versatile of all instruments..More -
The Guitar Has Taken Morris on Quite a Journey
Bob Morris took piano lessons, starting at about age 6 when he picked out tunes by ear. But it wasnʼt until he picked up a guitar as a teenager that he found his instrument, one which has given him opportunities to travel with bands as well as to introduce thousands of students to the joys of playing the guitar… More -
Envy of the District
“Leneah Maddox has hit the field of music with a bang – or should we say strum?… More -
Gates Pulls Some Strings to Add Guitars
Several guitars had been sitting unused at the middle school and Gates got permission from Chris Reed, vocal and music instructor at the high school, to use them. By donating a couple more guitars that her son once used when he took lessons, she had enough for two pupils to share…More -
Salina Journal – Matt-Gerry-1-6
Thanks to a video showcasing the students’ performance, Gerry was chosen grand prize winner of a contest co-sponsored by Weezer and State Farm Insurance. He will be flown to Chicago on Friday with three other contest finalists to attend a Saturday concert by Weezer, best known for its hit songs “Beverly Hills,” “Buddy Holly, “Undone (The Sweater Song),” “We Are All on Drugs” and “Pork and Beans.”..More -
Matt Gerry Teacher of the Year
“Matt Gerry, Secondary Teacher of the Year at USD 305, joined South Middle School in 2003 as music, vocal and guitar teacher. Gerry is a strong advocate for students and music…More -
Beverly Psomas_article
“In Greenwood School District 50 guitars have become a staple of the curriculum thanks to the overwhelming success of the Arts, Communication, Theatre School (ACTS) magnet program at Brewer Middle School……More -
How School Guitar Is Expanding Market
School music directors are turning to the guitar to attract more students and to insulate music departments from budget cuts…More -
GAMA Hosts TGW
Guitar instructors Shelley Brobst and Ed Prasse led the Fairfield University workshop, packing what’s defined as a graduate-level methods and pedagogy course into a five-day crash course…More -
TGW Broadening Teachers Skills
“The amount of children learning guitar is enormous and growing every year…..More -
The NAMM Foundation Presents Grant to GAMA at AARP Convention
“The NAMM Foundation presented a grant to the Guitar and Accessories Marketing Association (GAMA) Oct. 24 during the AARP conference….More -
Vonda Phillips Article
“I want my guitar students to leave my class with an appreciation and understanding of all styles of guitar playing and I want them to be able to read music. I focus on different styles… More -
Teaching Music Awards
“Romana Hartmetz, director of the guitar program at Harmony Intermediate School in urcellville, Virginia, is the winner of the 2009 GAMA Award for excellence in teaching Guitar…..More -
The Guitar Takes its Place in Education
It is 8:15am on Sunday, January 18th and hundreds of music industry insiders – advocates, retailers, manufacturers, publishers, performers – are filing into an immense hall, carrying their cups of coffee and plates brimming with the offerings of the breakfast buffet to the long tables that fill this cavernous conference room. On the stage, a tall man with flecked grey hair stands relaxed, slightly stooped even, smiling out at the audience; behind him, thirteen high school students, dressed in black, each holding an acoustic guitar, take their seats and assemble their sheet music on stands….More -
Hoping to Turn The Beat Around
Seventh-grader Jessica Dodson walked into class and yanked Eric Clapton from the wall — the guitar, not the guitarist. Classmate Corey Cook already had Carlos Santana….. More -
GAMA Celebrates 12th Year
It’s the Teaching Guitar workshop, and it’s about educating the educators, and then having them return to their schools and start guitar programs. A look at the numbers show it continues to be a big hit with those who participate…. More -
GAMA’s Quest
“Guitar association marks first decade of reaching out to teachers…. More