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Burnout

by Glen McCarthy | Mar 15, 2024 | Classroom, Education, News, Principles, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized

I was cruising Edutopia and found a great post about a tough topic – Burnout! Burnout can be especially hard during the holiday season with so many obligations – concerts, grading, personal, etc. If you wake up and find yourself asking, “Why did I...

Essential Posters for Your Guitar Class

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...

7 Halloween Songs for Guitar Class

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...

Capo Q&A

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...

Technology in the Classroom

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...

Sweet Student of Mine

by Glen McCarthy | Sep 5, 2016 | Classroom, Education, News, Principles, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized

Have you been in this situation? A new student shows up for the first day of guitar class and he can play the riff from, Sweet Child of Mine flawlessly! He impresses all the other students…and you. You might even wonder if this kid ought to be teaching your...
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