by Glen McCarthy | Jan 7, 2015 | Classroom, Education, News, Principles, Stories, Success Stories, Tips + Tricks
I was reading a post on Edutopia about using principles from video games to engage students. I was struck by how much classroom guitar programs resemble video games. Douglas Kiang, the author of the article, points out that in video games we: – Fail early and...
by Glen McCarthy | Dec 9, 2014 | Classroom, Education, News, Principles, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized, Videos
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...
by Glen McCarthy | Oct 28, 2014 | Classroom, Education, News, Principles, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized
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)! •...
by Glen McCarthy | Oct 21, 2014 | Classroom, Education, News, Principles, Tips + Tricks, Uncategorized
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, you...
