TIPS for teaching a beginner in guitar.

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Hi, I'm a guitar teacher from where I live. I just want to share some tips that may help fellow teachers teach their students on how to teach the guitar or any other craft in general. Especially the beginners, which are always the hard ones to teach. 1. Know your student. Always identify what type of music your student wants to learn. May it be pop, rock, alternative or perhaps GANGNAM STYLE. 2. Don't intimidate students by showing off and making themselves feel good about their teacher's playing and mastery. Rather, make the students feel good about their playing. It is their stage and that's why they are in that classroom to learn and become a spankin' guitar player. 3. Teach an easy song at first, like, Happy Birthday. 4. Make sure the students understand the idea of chords and how moveable these chords are in any shape possible. I usually teach the regular E and A shaped barred chords before going through some advanced stuff like CAGED and chord spelling. 5. Make your students feel good about any accomplishment they make. 6. The teacher is in charge and is in control of the flow of the lesson. Not the student. 7. Do not let students memorize all the scales. They don't work. Instead, let them play it and let them feel it. I hope any of these will help any fellow teacher out there who's struggling with a student or something. Cool!!