by Glen McCarthy | Feb 25, 2013 | Classroom, Education, News, Tips + Tricks
Bill Purse – Tip 2 Tip 2 – Steel strings exert a great deal of pressure on an acoustic guitar neck, whereas nylon strings exert less pressure. You should never place steel strings on an acoustic guitar made to utilize nylon strings.
by Glen McCarthy | Feb 18, 2013 | Classroom, Education, News, Tips + Tricks
Bill Purse – Tip 1 Tip 1 – You can usually tell the difference between nylon and steel string guitars by the way that strings are attached. Nylon strings are tied to the bridge, whereas steel strings are held to the bridge of the guitar with bridge...
by Glen McCarthy | Jan 20, 2013 | Classroom, Education, News, Tips + Tricks
A Day in the Life – Folk Song Revelation Most of the time, we get to the folk songs that are in our Essential Elements for guitar books, and I think, “There is no way the kids are going to like this song”, so many times I gravitate to the more rock oriented tunes....
by Glen McCarthy | Jan 16, 2013 | Classroom, Education, News, Tips + Tricks
A Day in the Life – An Ode to Week Two Week two in guitar class we concentrated pretty heavily on notation on strings one and two. Most all of my students learned the notes B,C,D,E,F, and G in sixth grade with their introduction to guitar. So theoretically this is...
by Glen McCarthy | Jan 11, 2013 | Classroom, Education, News, Tips + Tricks
A Day in the Life – Fretboard Test As 2013 started I was dealt a new batch of students in all my sections. I teach 4 sections of sixth grade general music (we do a 6 week unit on the guitar as an introduction to the instrument as a part of this class), and two...
by Glen McCarthy | Jan 10, 2013 | Classroom, Education, News, Tips + Tricks
A Day in the Life – Teaching Middle School Guitar John Lennon sings … “I read the news today oh, boy About a lucky man who made the grade” I start this blog today as a very lucky man. One who has been fortunate enough to have found a line of work that makes me truly...
