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Workshop Refresher: Warm Ups
Rob Pethel Warm Up Video In this video Rob Pethel demonstrates a warm up pattern for playing a major scale on a single string. Other benefits: • The scale pattern is the same on all six strings, so students will hear/play five major scales (and E major in twice)! •...
Sports Quotes for the Guitar Classroom
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,...
Slug Guitars
The internet is great for so many things, but its also where you find the weirdest stuff! Check out these guitar legends playing giant slugs courtesy of Slug Solos Jimi Slugdrix Jimi Hendrix + Slug - http://slugsolos.tumblr.com/ Purple slime or is it my hands.......
5 Ideas for Working with At-Risk Kids
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 them...
Students, Turn ON Your Devices!
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...
An Interview with Suzanne D’Addario Brouder, Director of the D’Addario Foundation
An Interview with Suzanne D'Addario Brouder, Director of the D’Addario Foundation Teaching Guitar Workshops - What's the mission of the D'Addario Foundation? Suzanne D'Addario Brouder - The primary mission of the D’Addario Foundation is to support community based...
New Sponsor: D&A Guitar Gear
D&A Guitar Gear recently signed on to support the Teaching Guitar Workshops and help music educators start great classroom guitar programs. D&A Guitar Gear began with a simple question: Why can’t there be music accessories that look great, work well and...
5 Acoustic v Electric Considerations
It's a little early, but you may have some parents asking you about guitars as gift ideas for the holidays. If you're faced with the question, "Electric or Acoustic?", what do you say? Here are a some considerations. 1. What Would You Prefer? It might sound...
4 Factors to Demystify Picks
I wish life was easy, but it's not...and the same holds for guitar playing and guitar picks! Guitar picks are cheap enough and they're ubiquitous, but how do you know which one to buy (your student asks)? Go to a store and you'll find thin picks, fat picks,...
Jason Venesky – TGW Success Story
Jason Venesky, Director of Bands, Ford City High School TRIBLive, a local paper in Western Pennsylvania, recently published a story about Jason Venesky, the Director of Bands at Ford City High School, and his school's purchase of $5000 worth of guitar products for...
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