Guitar Lessons for Kids
Everybody approaches arranging guitar lessons for kids with some trepidation. If you don’t have a lot of experience with teaching kids guitar or giving guitar lessons in general, you need a few basic facts to calm you down.
The first job in giving guitar lessons to anybody is grabbing and holding their attention. When you are giving the guitar lessons to kids this is not something you do once and coast along for the rest of the lesson, you need to be constantly renewing the kid’s interest.
All kids have a favorite song so guitar lessons should contain some songs that they are familiar with and like. That way when you get to a snag like learning a chord that your student finds a little tricky, singing the section of the song to relate it to the chord will be a help. If you want to teach kids musical theory, a familiar song will also be a help in getting them to relate to the written music and musical ideas in a practical way.
One thing kids like is being treated like a grown-up, so the theme of your discussions during guitar lessons could be along the lines of telling your pupil about how the end result of the guitar lessons is his being able to teach himself to play his favorite songs.
Don’t give a kid songs that are too difficult for him to learn. If he wants to learn something that is too advanced for them, gently steer his attention over to something simpler. You also should have a few songs of your own as guitar teaching material. Two-chord songs like Iko-Iko, are great to ignite a kid’s interest. Here’s a few old folk songs that might also be of some help: Tom Dooley, Puttin’ On The Style, He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands, Skip To My Lou and My Darling Clementine. When it’s time to move onto three chord songs, a web search will yield a whole range of latin, rock and country songs.
As far as the theoretical side of guitar for kids goes, it is best to give it in small doses. Guitar lessons for kids should never stop being fun. Not necessarily laugh out loud hilarity kind of fun, but at least interesting. So a kid can take plenty of theory as long as it is linked to a song or an idea that interests him. It’s the same principle for getting the kid’s motor skills moving – keep him interested and don’t let him go too fast.
Gyorgy Huba
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6 Responses to “Guitar Lessons for Kids”
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November 4th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
how much should i get payed an hour for teaching guitar lessons?
i just got a job teaching a 10 year old kid guitar lessons but im not sure how much i should get paid an hour
how much is it usually an hour?
thank you!
November 4th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
if you are teaching all of the basics and even songs then you should get paid mabey 3 to 5 dollars an hour and how old of kids are you going to teach
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November 4th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
teaching a child is very difficult. about my knowledge ,u should charge 30 or more , depends on the childs parents pocket. and depends on ur situation, And U ,
I guess this is ur answer
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November 4th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
15 bucks an hour
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November 4th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
I’d say 10 bucks..that’s a good cost,keeps them coming..because its not expensive,..BUT you still get paid
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November 4th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
$15-20/hr depending on your experience and the difficulty of the songs.
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