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5 Songs to Play with Barre Chords
You've seen Rob Pethel's videos on how to teach Barre Chords, now how do you make it musical for your students? We put some song recommendations together for you and your classroom guitar program that involve barre chords, mixing open and barre chords, and barre...
5 Holiday Songs for Guitar Class
It's that time of year again: Everyone is busy shopping and making plans for the holidays. Meanwhile, you forgot to plan out some holiday songs for your guitar class! Don't worry! We've got you covered with 5 songs that are easy to learn and teach. Frosty the...
When Guitar Is Not Your First Instrument: 5 Teaching Tips
Part of my responsibility as the Guitar Task Force Chair in Clark County is to pay attention to the challenges that guitar teachers are facing. Currently, 60% of our classroom guitar teachers do not play the guitar or did not play the guitar before teaching their...
Guitar-Class Utility Belt
Batman's utility belt had all sorts of little gadgets that helped him save the world. There were bat cables, bat ropes...even bat-shark repellent (think Adam West). Well, what happens when disaster strikes your guitar class? Keeping your guitar class running...
Guitar Ensemble Book Sampler
The other day we published a piece by Bill Swick about the benefits of classroom guitar ensembles. Ensembles build teamwork, musicality, open opportunities for performances and helps the class bond. Beyond why ensembles are great Suzanne Shull had advice on how to...
Rob Pethel – Video Learning: Building Barre Chords
In these videos TGW Clinician, Rob Pethel takes us through finding the bass note, power chords, major chords, and barre chords. These videos can easily be turned into 6 weeks of lesson plans. Add a song or two and you're golden! Bassline Scavenger Hunt A great and...
5 Thanksgiving Songs for Guitar Class
Source: Giphy It's getting dark earlier, you're tired, your throat is sore...well look on the bright side. What do you have to be thankful for? 1. You're a guitar teacher. 2. You have admiring and adoring students. 3. There's tons of great music out there that is...
10 Benefits of Ensembles for Classroom Guitar
By Bill Swick 1) Teamwork The profile of a typical guitar student is a person who does not spend a lot of time playing sports, does not participate in scouts, does not belong to a youth group at church, etc. The guitar ensemble may be the first time a guitar...
5 Easy Songs You Can Play with Power Chords
Power Chords are one of the greatest things about guitar. Just put your index finger on a bass note on the low E string then put your ring finger down on the A string two frets over (or use the A and D strings). Done! You can use power chords as a proxy for any...
5 Awesome Videos on How to Strum
Nothing looks easier than strumming, but that's because great players make it look easy. In reality it takes a some work to sound great when you strum a guitar. You have to have rhythm, a good sense for patterns, and good form. Reasons to learn strum patterns and...
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