Rock Dojo Teaches Your Child The Rock Essentials If you’re looking for an enriching activity for your child and have a kid who’s really into music, consider signing them up for Rock Dojo! With lessons from Rock Dojo, your child will learn the basics of guitar playing in no time and soon become a black belt level guitarist! To get your […]
Category: Guitar Teachers
Why Portland Kids Are Signing Up For These New Award-Winning Guitar Lessons
Portland, Oregon is no different when it comes to loving music. Portland also does not have a shortage of kids who want to learn guitar. What Portland does have are unique guitar lessons that are exclusively taught at 10 local Portland schools. Children who learn and graduate through the Rock Dojo method graduate with skills […]
The 4 Greatest Challenges Facing Guitar Teachers
The music education industry is rapidly changing. Online learning tools like YouTube are reshaping the industry. In the coming years, independent guitar instructors unable to adapt to these changes will be out of business while those teachers savvy enough to adapt to the changing landscape will win big! In this article, I’ll overview the greatest […]
The Guitar Can Save the World: A New Type of Hero is Born
The guitar can save the world. I know this because the guitar saved me, and it can save you or members of your community too. A Kid Without a Guitar I grew up in Exeter, PA, a modest coal miner’s town nestled on the banks of the Susquehanna River. While the winters were frigid, springtime brought the […]
The Guitar Can Save the World! Here’s How.
“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” ― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter It’s no secret the world is in some trouble. Climate change. Inequality. Mass shootings. The rise of neo-fascism and the threat of nuclear war. These days, the headlines read like a recipe for the apocalypse. As a result, people are […]
Grow Your Teaching Studio with Group Guitar Lessons
If you’re a guitar instructor interested in leveraging your time, reaching more students, and maximizing your impact, then this article is perfect for you! Private Lessons: A Flawed Business Model When I first started teaching guitar, I followed the usual path filling my schedule with private lessons. As my reputation grew, my student roster quickly ballooned. […]
The Guitar is a Vehicle for Success
Learning to play the guitar is about much more than mastering a few chord grips, memorizing some music theory concepts, or playing popular songs. Rather, I believe the guitar is a vehicle which can teach anyone learning to play it the skills he/she need to be successful in music or in life. This belief […]
80/20 Guitar Part Two: Minimal Practice for Maximum Results
I. 80% of your practice time leads to 20% of your total progress on the guitar. & II. 20% of your practice time leads to 80% of your total progress on the guitar. Believe it or not, you can get more results playing the guitar with less effort in the practice room! I know […]
Harness the Power of Leverage to Grow Your Teaching Business
When I first launched my guitar teaching business as a student in 2012, I was just like every other private guitar instructor. I filled my schedule with one private lesson after another. I buckled under the pressure of my students’ requests and subsequently spent all my time learning songs I didn’t like for students who […]
Apply These Three Secrets from Project Management to Get Crazy Sick at the Guitar
A few weeks ago, I picked up a copy of Dan Roam’s The Back of the Napkin, and it blew my mind. In it, Roam provides a complete toolkit for solving complex business problems. So I did what any guitar geek would do, I immediately borrowed the lessons I learned from The […]
