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 incre

STG 136: Beginning Guitar Teacher Questions Answered

Sep 25th, 2014 41m 43s

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 mus

STG 132: Busting Some Common Myths About Teaching Guitar – Part 1

Aug 28th, 2014 42m 19s

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 according

STG 128: Cracking The Code – Interview With Troy Grady

Jul 31st, 2014 38m 10s

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 unr

STG 124: Guitar Advice From The Pros, Volume 1

Jul 3rd, 2014 45m 55s

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,

STG 120: 5 Must-Have Mobile Apps For Teaching Guitar

Jun 5th, 2014 32m 5s

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, comm

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

May 8th, 2014 37m 27s

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

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

Apr 10th, 2014 37m 24s

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.

STG 108: How NOT To Teach Guitar Lessons

Mar 13th, 2014 35m 9s

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! Ho

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

Feb 13th, 2014 34m 31s

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 stayi

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