Latest updates and news

New lesson material: Practice session breakdown template

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A new resource has been added to the Lesson Materials Page to help you control how your student practices outside of lessons. The template allows you to specifically describe what your student should be practicing and how long they should spend on each area.

This gives you a way to make sure your student focuses on the right areas and to encourage them to practice regularly. The included instructions give you two examples on how you could use the template.

Access the lesson here: PRA-02 Practice Session Breakdown

There are other similar resources in the PRA series to help keep track of your student's progress. Check out the Lesson Materials Page to access these resources.

New business guides: Using Facebook as a marketing tool

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A new guide has been added to the Business Guides section that will help you use Facebook to promote your lessons and attract new students.

There are a number of ways you can use Facebook to attract new students. BMK-06 Using Facebook will explain the basics of Facebook and how you could use it as a free way to spread the word about your tuition service. BMK-07 Facebook Marketing Strategies will give you specific strategies you can easily implement to start attracting new students. They are easy to understand and even if you haven't used Facebook before you will appreciate how effective the strategies can be.

If you're trying to attract new students then these guides will give you a kick start without costing a cent.

Check out the guides here

BMK-06 Using Facebook

BMK-07 Facebook Marketing Strategies

More marketing strategies will be added to BMK-07 over time so keep an eye on the News Section to stay up to date with new strategies.

Special offers available to members

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A new page has been created under the member's menu called 'Special offers'. This page contains discounts and offers we have sourced from other websites on related products and tools to help you teach guitar. If we find something useful that will help make your job easier, then we will contact the site owners and try to arrange a discount for our members.

At the moment we have two specials from partner sites and more will be added when we find anything worthwhile for our members.

To check out the special offers, visit the new Special Offers page.

New lesson material: Finding new chords across the neck

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A new lesson has been added to the Lesson Materials Section to help you teach your student to find new chords across the neck. This is a great way to help your student expand their understanding of chords as well as help them break out of the habit of always playing standard open chords or barre chords.

Access the lesson here: INT-06 Finding new chords across the neck

Other lesson resources on tunings can be found at the Lesson Materials Section.

New Teaching Guide on Repetition

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A new guide has been added to the Teaching Guides section to help you use repetition in your lessons.

Repetition is an extremely effective teaching tool you can use in your lessons to help your students memorize important principles, concepts, theory and techniques. Using repetition isn't as straight forward as it sounds so check out the guide for a range of different ways you can use it.

Check out TTQ-02 Repetition here

You can access other teaching guides by clicking here.

 

New lesson material: Open G Tuning

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A new lesson has been added to the Lesson Materials Section covering Open G tuning. If you are looking at teaching something very different then this lesson will be worth checking out. Open G tuning works great with a slide as a full open chord can be played across all six strings.

Access the lesson here: TUN-04 Open G Tuning

Other lesson resources on tunings can be found at the Lesson Materials Section.

New lesson material: Picking exercises

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A new lesson has been added to the Lesson Materials Section covering picking exercises. These exercises range from easy to difficult so you can give your student (regardless of their current skill level) a challenge. Various picking techniques are explained so you can expand your students understanding of picking.

Access the lesson here: TEC-09 Picking Exercises 1

Other lesson resources on techniques can be found at the Lesson Materials Section.

Special offer for new members

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With the revamp of the Live and Teach Guitar website we have decided to run a special offer for new members. Register for membership and receive a massive lifetime discount on the membership fee.

You can save up to $10 every month by taking up this offer.

If you have been considering teaching guitar, this special offer will put you in the perfect position to start teaching guitar and earn money. As a member you will have unlimited access to professional lesson materials ready to print and give to your students. See how much you can save with this special offer at the Membership Pricing page.

Take advantage of this offer while you still can by registering here.

New lesson material: Tapping

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A new lesson has been added to the Lesson Materials Section to help you teach tapping. It includes simple exercises your students will be able to play straight away. The included lesson instructions will help you explain proper technique and issues to watch out for.

Access the lesson TEC-07 Tapping here

Other lesson resources on techniques can be found in the Lesson Materials Section.

New lesson material: Natural Harmonics

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A new lesson has been added to the Lesson Materials Section to help you teach Natural Harmonics to your students. Natural Harmonics can be used to tune the guitar so even if your student doesn't encounter them in music they can still use the technique.

Access the lesson TEC-05 Natural Harmonics here

There will be lesson material for the other types of harmonics so keep an eye on the News Section for more updates.