rock-lobster
not a n00b anymore
I've been thinking of becoming a music (well, guitar mostly) teacher for a while now. I think I have enough knowledge of music theory to pass on to others. I've taught people before but it's always been the type of teaching where you teach people to play songs over and over. I'm very interested in taking on students who are interested in studying music theory, ear training and compositional and improvisational techniques. I fear that it might be hard to find people that are both beginner or intermediate enough that it is still worth their time for me to teach them, and also interested in the fundamentals and the abstractness of music theory.
I also don't really know a good approach as of yet to starting this kind of teaching. I know that if someone has at least a rudimentary understanding of what a major scale and minor scale are, that I could teach them theory and application of that theory up until a good jazz-harmony level, but I don't know exactly how to start doing that, if that makes sense.
Basically I'm looking for advice from people who have taught music with that kind of approach. Learning about music theory has been a great experience for me that I want to share. I'd love to take on a beginner student and make them one day be able to half-ass a Giant Steps solo. It would take a lot of patience but the result as a teacher would be pretty rewarding.
I also don't really know a good approach as of yet to starting this kind of teaching. I know that if someone has at least a rudimentary understanding of what a major scale and minor scale are, that I could teach them theory and application of that theory up until a good jazz-harmony level, but I don't know exactly how to start doing that, if that makes sense.
Basically I'm looking for advice from people who have taught music with that kind of approach. Learning about music theory has been a great experience for me that I want to share. I'd love to take on a beginner student and make them one day be able to half-ass a Giant Steps solo. It would take a lot of patience but the result as a teacher would be pretty rewarding.