The Start Teaching Guitar Podcast

Donnie Schexnayder
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The Start Teaching Guitar Podcast

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.

Episodes

  1. 10/23/2014

    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 […]

    47 min

  2. 09/25/2014

    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 […]

    42 min

  3. 08/28/2014

    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 […]

    42 min

  4. 07/31/2014

    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 […]

    38 min

  5. 07/03/2014

    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 […]

    46 min

  6. 06/05/2014

    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 […]

    32 min

  7. 05/08/2014

    STG 116: 5 Methods For Mastering Money In Your Guitar Teaching Studio

    Many guitar teachers have a love/hate relationship with money. It’s awesome to get paid for doing something you love, but it’s no fun working hard doing something you love and not getting paid what you should be. Too many guitar teachers have hangups about money, are getting paid less than they’re really worth and […]

    37 min

  8. 04/10/2014

    STG 112: Growing Your Teaching Studio $5 At A Time

    There are a lot of cool websites out there, but the coolest site for small business owners has got to be fiverr.com. There’s no place else on earth where you can get almost anything done that you could imagine and only have to pay $5 for it. There are LOTS of valuable services on […]

    37 min

  9. 03/13/2014

    STG 108: How NOT To Teach Guitar Lessons

    I’ve done lots of podcast episodes about how to become a better guitar teacher; today I want to take a look at this from a different angle and talk about how NOT to teach guitar lessons. There are tons of teachers out there doing it WRONG! Hopefully you aren’t one of them, but regardless, […]

    35 min

  10. 02/13/2014

    STG 104: 7 Guitar Teaching Excuses I Never Want To Hear Again

    If you’ve been thinking about taking the plunge into teaching guitar lessons but you haven’t found the motivation to actually get started, then this episode is for you. There are lots of excuses we’ve all made at one time or another for staying on the bench, but today is the day to face them […]

    35 min
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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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