How Do You Make A Living From Teaching Guitar?
• Start teaching immediately. Teaching is a skill best learned by experience and the sooner you start the better. Depending on your experience level, either start with friends and family members; teaching them for free, or offer to teach beginners for a modest rate (such as £10 per hour in the UK or $15 in the US). The classic mistake that many would-be guitar teachers make is to think that they have to “complete” learning the guitar themselves before they will feel ready to teach. The fact is that you can never complete learning the guitar – it’s just too big a subject. • During this time, you should put together some teaching materials, like a list of beginner songs you can teach, along with print-outs of tabs and scales and exercises that your students can practice at home. • Study all you can on the subject of teaching guitar, all the while continuing to teach so that you build concrete experience that will help you make sense of what you are studying. This is by far the single mos
