Questions & Answers with Neil Hogan -  #1.3

Q. I would like to get into guitar teaching because it looks like a lot of fun and I think I’d be fairly good at it. What steps can you suggest I take?

A. The first thing a teacher has to have is students so I suggest you find some people looking for music instruction if you intend to get into guitar teaching. You need to sit down with the student and find out as much about them as possible. One of the main things you are looking for is how they learn. This is really the absolute most important thing about guitar teaching.

I know that once I have figured out how a student learns best (this is a bit of psychoanalysis as it turns out) I am in the best possible position to instruct them.

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