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Garrett Cruz
Teaching Guitar
What is most important to teaching guitar?
Make a song
It's important to write songs and improv things to show case what you're teaching them can do so writing a song helps with this.

Interview 4

1. how do you deal with a student who is struggling/ not progressing?
2. how do you teach (lesson plan, make it up as you go)?
3. how do you judge your students abilities?
4. how do you know what to teach?
5. what should a guitar teacher know?
6. is there a wrong way to teach? why or why not
7. is teaching songs good/ necessary?
8. will a student improve overall by practicing exercises?
9. how do you get students good at improvising?
10. what keeps you as a teacher going?
11. are there some things that shouldn't be taught? if so what?
12. have you ever run out of things to teach? if you did what did you do after?
13. what do you need to do to be a good teacher? a good student?
14. is it important to be able to relate you your students? how do you do it?
15. do you get better at teaching the longer you do it (like facing new situations the students bring)?
16. are you still learning today? if so what?
17. when you teach different students is there something that you teach all of them like a song or something?
18. do you generally teach the same exercises or do you change them depending on the type of music you teach?
19. how does your teaching change with the students ability?
20. whats most important to teaching guitar?
Extra
21. is it good to teach only songs or is there an alternative meaning a way to teach were songs arent mentioned.