by Glen McCarthy | Feb 2, 2024 | Classroom, Education, Tips + Tricks
Twitter remains one of the fastest, most effective ways of sharing information online. It’s a fantastic resource for music educators IF you know how to leverage its reach to the fullest. If you don’t, you can end up tweeting, flapping your wings, and not...
by Glen McCarthy | Oct 22, 2016 | Classroom, Education, Gear, News, Principles, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized
Classrooms should not be dreary places. They should be delightful, engaging, inspired and everywhere you look you should have a chance to learn and grow. That’s why we put together some ideas for essential posters for your classroom guitar program. Notes on the...
by Glen McCarthy | Oct 1, 2016 | Classroom, Education, News, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized
You’ve been drilling your classroom guitar students for two months; teaching them open chords and the notes on the strings. Well, it’s almost Halloween – time for a crash course in tritones! Halloween brings out the augmented 4th or diminished 5th in...
by Glen McCarthy | Sep 25, 2016 | Classroom, Education, Gear, News, Principles, Stories, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized
It’s a tradition at every Teaching Guitar Workshop to give attendees sticky notes so they can write down questions as they arise. When there is a critical mass of stickies the TGW Clinicians answer all of them. Not surprisingly lots of attendees ask questions...
by Glen McCarthy | Sep 11, 2016 | Classroom, Education, Gear, News, Stories, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized
Tech is everywhere…and not just in the hands of your students. Technology can augment your classroom, change the way you teach and in a lot of ways levels the playing field making music education more accessible to more students. We asked some of our TGW people...
