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Vandercook’s Day of Guitar
The 10th annual Day of Guitar, High-School Guitar Ensemble Festival was held at VanderCook College of Music November 15, 2016. Directed by Julie Goldberg, VCM Assistant Professor of Guitar and Teaching Guitar Workshop Instructor, Day of Guitar celebrates the...
Mike Molenda — Editor In Chief: Guitar Player; Editorial Director, Bass Player, Electronic Musician, Keyboard
by Dan Daley Mike Molenda has been the guitar’s editorial anchor almost as long as the instrument has been the category anchor of MI sales. In his youth he spent more time than might have been healthy at Bay Area music venues like the Fillmore, Winterland,...
GAMA Grantee – Guitars 4 Vets
For just $200, Guitars for Vets can provide one Veteran with 10 weeks of individualized guitar instruction, a new acoustic guitar and a complete guitar accessory kit. A recent grant of $6,000 from GAMA will enable Guitars for Vets to launch six new chapters over...
Essential Posters for Your Guitar Class
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...
Reverb.com’s David Kalt
Reverb.com founder and CEO David Kalt came to MI retail with the same passion for music and guitars that most in the business do, but leavened with a tech entrepreneur’s instincts. Kalt, who was co-founder and CEO of online brokerage optionsXpress, which he took...
7 Halloween Songs for Guitar Class
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 music like no...
Capo Q&A
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 about...
Technology in the Classroom
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
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...
School Is In Session – Better Get In Shape
It's been a long summer - thank goodness - but now you've got to teach guitar again. If you need a little refresher, you're not alone. No worries! We'll get you in shape for your new crop of eager guitar players. Let's get down to some fundamentals. Strings Let me...
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