10 episodes
The Start Teaching Guitar Podcast Donnie Schexnayder
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4.9 • 23 Ratings
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The Start Teaching Guitar podcast is your one-stop resource for learning how to be a successful guitar teacher. Focusing on both the teaching and the business aspects of offering guitar lessons, STG will teach you how to you attract more new students, keep your existing students from quitting and get paid what you're really worth.
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STG 140: G4 Guitar Network – Interview With David Hart
David Hart has become a friend of mine in recent months, and we meet together via Skype on a regular basis. David has been teaching guitar in Australia since the early 1990’s and he grew a large music school with multiple locations that increased by over 3,000 students in a single year. He eventually […]
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STG 136: Beginning Guitar Teacher Questions Answered
There are lots of guitar players out there who would love to turn their love of music into a source of income, and maybe even do music as a career some day. Teaching is one of the more rewarding and more lucrative ways to have a career in music, but many people who would […]
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STG 132: Busting Some Common Myths About Teaching Guitar – Part 1
There are lots of common myths about teaching guitar lessons floating around out there. They sound logical, so most people who’ve never experienced anything different just accept them at face value and operate their teaching studios accordingly. The problem is that when you operate based on wrong information, the results you produce are usually […]
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STG 128: Cracking The Code – Interview With Troy Grady
Troy Grady has spent years researching, studying and unraveling the secrets of the world’s fastest professional guitar players and has recently created and released an amazing video series called “Cracking The Code”. In it, he attempts to unravel the mysteries of how famous virtuoso-level guitar players developed their technique, why the average person has […]
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STG 124: Guitar Advice From The Pros, Volume 1
I recently discovered a great podcast called The Guitar Channel, hosted by Pierre Journel. He has hundreds of episodes of his show, mostly containing interviews with famous guitar players including Nuno Bettencourt, Steve Vai, Steve Lukather, Paul Gilbert, Al Di Meola, Guthrie Govan, Tommy Emmanuel and Lee Ritenour. In each interview, he asks the […]
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STG 120: 5 Must-Have Mobile Apps For Teaching Guitar
Mobile devices are one of the coolest innovations of the 21st century. Never before in the history of the world have we had so much power and access to so much information in our back pockets. Now you can run your entire teaching studio, communicate with your students, do your marketing and even teach […]
Customer Reviews
Great Business Advice
We teachers usually have no trouble passing on our passion for music but when it comes down to the business side of things, we could usually use a little guidance. This podcast gives you a ton of great advice from how to run your studio, to how to handle teaching the students. And 99.9% of the content is applicable to teachers of other instruments as well. I highl;y recommend it.- Stefano Ashbridge (DrumLessonsInLA)
I teach guitar, great info and episode
I’m a teacher in the Boston area - starting up a new business and found the info really interesting. Especially for those who are entrepreneur’s and trying to do something different.
Do it Right
If you’re serious about teaching guitar, then you’re not going to find anyone more helpful than Donnie Schexnayder. He is well-spoken, informative and engaging. He has done the research and planning for you. He provides the tools and encouragement you need to be successful.