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If you are relatively new to guitar tutoring you may fall
into the trap of thinking that it's somehow important to show
your students just how good you are at playing the
guitar.
IT'S NOT!
When students come to us having already tried lessons with
other local guitar tutors, I always make a point of enquiring
tactfully about their reasons for discontinuing lessons with
their previous tutor.
Number 1 on the list of reasons for giving up on a particular
tutor goes something like this:
..."He was obviously a really good player, but I got
tired of him showing me what he could do on the instrument
when all I wanted was to learn to play it myself. .."
New tutors understandably feel a little insecure about their
lack of tutoring experience and so make the mistake of trying
to compensate by proving how well they can play guitar.
The truth is that you don't actually need a huge amount of
teaching experience to impress your students as long as you
can focus your efforts.
And the trick is to focus your efforts on impressing your
student with their ability to play.
Specifically: Make a point of ensuring that the student can
do one or two things on the guitar at the end of the lesson
that they know they couldn't do at the beginning of it!
And that will impress them no end!
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