by Glen McCarthy | Oct 21, 2014 | Classroom, Education, News, Principles, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized
Being a classroom guitar teacher is a great! You get to play music, think music, and breathe music, but the day-to-day can be challenging. Fortunately, when you are trying to motivate and help a classroom full of kids become a classroom full of awesome guitarists, you...
by Glen McCarthy | Oct 14, 2014 | Classroom, Education, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized
Tough kids, bullies, trouble makers, at-risk kids. We’ve all heard these names before and every teacher teacher has their horror story. However, year after year our teachers tell us that classroom guitar both attracts at-risk kids and is effective in turning...
by Glen McCarthy | Oct 14, 2014 | Classroom, Education, Gear, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized
Students, turn on your devices! Does that sound counterintuitive or unproductive? You normally tell your students to turn their devices off in your class, so that they can focus. What if their devices made them focus on music more?!?!? Here are 6 apps you can use to...
by Glen McCarthy | Sep 22, 2014 | Classroom, Education, News, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized
There has been a lot of talk about TAB on this site – is it legit or not? Your students are using it irrespective of TAB’s legitimacy, so we checked out a bunch of TAB sites to see who is for real and who’s not. UltimateGuitar.com Boasts...
by Glen McCarthy | Sep 22, 2014 | Classroom, Education, Gear, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized
Your guitars are being played 6-8 hours a day, they are being taken in and out of storage every day (hopefully), they are being handled by numerous hands, and the weather just went from 90 with humidity to a dry 75. If this sounds like your classroom, I’m...
by Glen McCarthy | Sep 14, 2014 | Classroom, Education, Gear, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized
Introduction SmartMusic provides a solid guide for the beginning guitarist to personalize computer-assisted guitar instruction with practical materials they will use for a lifetime. All of the exercises, examples, and approaches in Alfred Music’s Sound Innovations for...
