Free Guitar Teacher's Resources
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Guitar Music Theory:
Major Scales Explained PDF
When teaching music theory to guitar players Major Scales are just about the most important concept that any guitarist can learn
All other scales and modes are understood via their relationship (or otherwise) to the sequence of whole-step and half-step intervals that combine to make up any Major Scale
Get a free backing track and the handouts that go along with it
Although not suitable for a very first guitar lesson as the track moves a little too quickly and as a consequence the chord changes come along a little faster than most absolute beginners will be able to handle (and its important to make sure that the tasks given match up to the capabilities that they have already developed if you don't want to discourage your students) this material will familiarise you with what we're about and how the resources on this site can make your guiytar teaching easier, better and less stressful
By downloading this material you can also help ensure that our resources will download easily and efficiently to your phone, tablet or PC
Hear a short section of The FREE A-D-G-A Backing Track
Hear More of the Backing Tracks
There are over thirty more of the backing tracks and you can hear a snippet of just about all of them and take a look at the printed materials that go along with them by following the link to our backing tracks section of this website
You can download 20 free Giant Guitar Chord Grids as a freebie NOW!
The download also contains 100 Giant Chord Grids that you can use during group lessons or use to decorate your teaching studio wall and have what one of my students described as "the coolest wallpaper on the planet"
Follow the link below to get 20 of them FREE Now!
You can also email them one or two at a time to your students after the lessons that you give which first feature the chord shape concerned as a way of "adding value" to your guitar teaching product
Free Children's Guitar Teaching Resources
Here at teachwombat we have over eighty PDF's designed to help you to teach kids to play the guitar as well as a whole load of other stuff aimed at older kids and adults
Get a Free Certificate designed to go along with a child's first guitar lesson
Recognise achievement from the very first lesson!
Teaching advanced Guitar
Download the FREE advanced guitar teaching aids and teacher's notes that you can see below
More Advanced Guitar Teaching Resources
In addition to the materials aimed at beginners we also have a range of guitar teaching materials designed to help our students to realise that music theory is a tool to be utilised rather than an obstacle to be avoided or overcome. The freebie that you can get (shown in the illustration above) by following the link below this text helps demonstrate to our students that all keys are the same and how within each key there are a bunch of "useful" chords that can be identified quickly and correctly
Click the link below to download a PDF containing all of the material that you can see in the image above
There are a whole load of resources and teacher's notes/explanations in the PDF that are designed to provide insight into the way that effective guitar teaching works
Carry on down this page to download a whole load of free printable guitar teachers handouts and backing tracks to your phone, tablet or PC......
If you like you can go right to our page looking at teaching a series of guitar lessons to an absolute beginner or to our material dealing with how to teach kids guitar
Alternately you are very welcome to scroll on down this page to get a whole load of free tried and tested guitar teaching resources that you can print and/or photocopy and use at your leisure
You can download everthing on this site (thats over 450 PDF documents and 35 backing tracks and the handouts/chord charts that go with them) for a "one off" fee of $25.00
Even though we would say that you can't get much of a better deal than paying $25.00 for the guitar teaching resources that will last you a lifetime some folks just can't get enough of free stuff! so feel free to "scroll away!"
The download includes.......
(follow links below to find out more)
Childrens guitar teaching materials
Backing Tracks with Chord Charts
Music Theory Resources
Songwriting Resources
Teaching Intermediate/Advanced Guitarists
100 Giant Chord Grids
An introduction to teaching Jazz Guitar
Ukulele Teaching Materials
First Freebie Alert........!
First Six Guitar Lesson Plans
A set of incredibly useful FREE PDF beginners guitar lessons to download now
Download Free PDF Guitar Lesson Plans
You dont need to buy anything to download the free lesson plans which provide a tried and tested framework to take a beginner guitarist from a situation where they have no guitar playing ability whatsoever to a place where they can move comfortably between the eight chords that every guitarist should learn first
Lesson plans five and six look beyond this point andprovide a plan for a more intermediate stage where students can be encouraged to develop the ability to use bar chords and begin to nurture an understanding of useful Guitar Music Theory
This Video Explains It All!
A short video that lets you see the first five beginners guitar lesson plans in action
Below you can see how thousands of guitar teachers around the world take students from the point where they do not play the guitar at all to a place where they can move comfortably between the first eight chords that a beginner needs to learn in time to music
Download Everything you see on this website for
Only $25.00
More than 450 individual PDF documents and 35 Backing Tracks used by guitar teachers worldwide to ensure that they have a plan and are ready for whatever surprises a lesson may throw at them
Why are the teachwombat materials so inexpensive?
I have been told on more than one occasion by folks who understand the way online marketing works that I should split the resources on this site into a series of $25.00 packs covering kids stuff, adult beginner's, intermediate/advanced and jazz guitar materials, music theory resources and ukulele teaching stuff and that way I would get to earn more money from professional guitar teachers and "repeat customers" '
The folks who tell me this are probably right but to be honest I just don't want to do it
I'd rather give somebody a bargain than a feeling that they spent twenty five bucks on the "wrong" package and to get absolutely everything that would be useful to them they have to stick their (digital) hand in their (actual) pocket again and again
This may change in the future but at the moment I love the buzz that I get when somebody who bought my stuff gets in touch to say that they can't believe how much material there is included in the download'
Download Absolutely Everything you see on this website for
Only $25.00
The Download Contains....
Beginners Guitar Teaching Materials
Childrens Guitar Teaching Resources
Printable Guitar Teaching Aids
Backing Tracks and Chord Charts
Blank Guitar Necks, Tab and Chord Sheets
Guitar Music Theory Resources
100 Letter Sized Giant Printable Chord Grids
Teaching Song Writing Skills to Guitarists
An introduction to Jazz Guitar Teaching Materials
Ukulele Teaching Materials
The main difference in lesson content between the early stages of teaching children to play guitar and the same stage for adults is that kids sometimes find stretching their fingers across the entire width of the guitar neck a bit too challenging in the early stages. To solve this problem guitar teachers introduce their younger students to "reduced" (one finger) versions of three of the eight chords that any beginner should learn first
Above you can see some of our guitar chord shapes especially prepared for younger guitar students and below you will see a link that will allow you to print the poster for the C chord
There are two more free posters to print that kids can colour and stick on their bedroom walls on our teaching kids guitar page
On this site we have a set of pages dedicated to a series of first guitar lessons for children. Each of the first five kids guitar lesson pages pages features a free to download certificate of achievement for your younger students. You can see the certificates in the illustration above. Go to the
Kids Guitar Lesson Number 1 page and then visit the next four pages to get this series of very useful guitar teaching resources
Each of the first four kids lesson pages (lesson 5 is a recap session) also has a free "at a glance" full page lesson plan that you can print (or "screenshot") to give you access to a ready reminder of the activities to be carried out during the course of the lesson
Use this link to Download the Full Backing Track that you can hear a short snippet of above and then visit our Backing Tracks Page to download the four handouts illustrated above (covering open chords, kids chords, bar chords and solo lines) that accompany the track
See all of the resources in the download
Teaching Jazz Guitar to intermediate and advanced students
Download Everything you see on this website for
Only $25.00
The Download Contains....
Beginners Guitar Teaching Materials
Childrens Guitar Teaching Resources
Printable Guitar Teaching Aids
Backing Tracks and Chord Charts
Blank Guitar Necks, Tab and Chord Sheets
100 Letter Sized Giant Printable Chord Grids
Teaching Song Writing Skills to Guitarists
An introduction to Jazz Guitar Teaching Materials
Encourage your students to practice more
A common situation that I find myself in is that sometimes my students are obsessed with guitars to the extent that they can seem more like collectors than players. They can spend a whole lot of hard earned money convinced that by buying more and better guitars they somehow become a better player. They often spend hours on the internet becoming becoming ever more knowledgable about guitars but in many cases that does not seem to translate into a huge improvement to their playing. This sheet is a fun and satisfying way way of getting them to play more and to play better by not allowing themselves to buy a new guitar until they have "earned" it.
All they need to do is decide upon a budget and pay themselves an hourly rate to practice. When they have practiced enough then they can "allow" themselves to buy the new guitar. The "rate of pay" can be varied in accordance with their personal circumstances and the price of the new guitar that they wish to own but fifty hours or real practice should see an improvement in the player who then feels good about awarding themselves a $500.00 guitar as the reward for the progress that they just made. It seems a bit silly but in some cases it has proved to be VERY effective.
For some students this can make all of the difference. Suddenly they have a clearly defined goal with a reward at the end of it. All thet you need to do is to remind them what practice is.
Practice is not.....
Noodling around on the guitar and going through things they can already play (usually riffs, the beginning bits of solos and introductions)
Practice is.....
The study and repeat of scales and arpeggios and extending a students repertoire of techniques songs and styles. In short it is working on things that they can't yet do. Learning a new song (all of the way through- with an ending, not just the intro). Applying themselves to music theory or working on the basics of a new style (eg Jazz, Country, Funk, Folk, Fingerpicking, Blues etc) with which they are unfamiliar. Practice is that which makes them a better guitar player and not just something to distract them till its time to log on to the internet in order to argue with some other plonker about the best kind of pickup magnets
Click the link below to download and print the practice log in the graphic above
Blank Bass Necks - Guitar Tab and Chord Grids
One from our Bass Guitar Teacher's Toolkit.
A Blank five string bass neck that you can print or photocopy before using as the basis for your own tuition.
Use this blank to make your own handouts (scan or photocopy them for repeated use).
This is just one of the many blank necks, chord grids tab and notation sheets that can be found in the teachwombat Guitar and Bass Teacher's Toolkits the material allows you to make up your own professional looking teaching aids themed around the songs,scales or chord progressions that you want to teach.
Guitar Scales for Teachers
Another one from the Guitar Teacher's Toolkit this time featuring the A (natural) Minor Scale through one and two octaves along with a scale formulae and a suggested fretting hand fingering. .
Feel Free to use this sheet in the course of your guitar tuition.
Smooth running for your Guitar Teaching business
Another sheet taken from the Guitar Guitar Teacher's Toolkit.
The second sheet of a Simple Musicians Accounts system that is designed to help you to make the boring but neccesary paperwork associated with any business as pain free as possible.
Its not the reason that any of us choose to teach guitar or bass for a living but it has to be done.
The musician's accounts sheets have space for income and expenditure relating to tuition and gig income as well as an easy to use diary and appointments system.
Guitar Chord Grids: Giant "Letter Sized Study Aids"
Click the image to the left to get Just one of the giant guitar chord grids that you can distribute to your students and/or stick up on the walls of your teaching studio.
If you like what you see then go to the BIG GRIDS page where you can download a file with more than twenty of them completely free of charge.
The charts are ideal for guitar teachers involved in group teaching (just stick them up where the whole group can see them). These diagrams are also a great resource to distribute to your guitar students. Your customers can stick them on their own walls at home as a cool looking study aid. There are many posters that you can get displaying tiny versions of hundereds of guitar chords but the problem is that you have to get up real close and squint at a tiny diagram. the BIG GRIDS turns that idea on it's head. Your students can study guitar chord diagrams without even getting out of bed if they want to.
A recent addition to our download (and remember that you get everything that you can see on the website for a single payment of $25.00) are the Ukulele Teaching Resources.
Ukuleles are becoming ever more popular in the modern music classroom and as well as having the advantage of being cheap and portable they sound great and are easy to play on a rudimentary level. They are wonderful things in their own right but it is also possible to regard a ukulele as the ideal "gateway drug" to guitar playing
Get All of our Resources in a Single $25.00 Download?
Over 400 printable Sheets and 35 backing Tracks in a single Download.... All of the teachwombat products
The "Deluxe" Package contains......................................................................
The Guitar Teacher's Toolkit
The "nuts and bolts of any guitar teaching business?
Scales, Open Chords,Power Chords, Bar Chords, Blank Necks, Empty Guitar Tab Sheets as well as Chord Grids and Fingering Excercises.
More than 100 handouts featuring Scales, Open Chords, Bar chords, Power Chords, Major, Minor, Pentatonic and Blues Scales plus loads of blank neck, chord and tab sheets to ensure that you are never stuck for the materials that you need to get your message over?You also get the business card designs and the guitar teacher's appointment/accounts pages to help you to administrate and promote your business
You also get...........
The Guitar Backing Tracks and Handouts Package
(great for teaching kids and adults alike!)
Drop them onto CD's or email them to your Guitar Students
An invaluable aid for teaching both rhythm and lead guitar." If they can't play in time then they can't play?"
Plus 100 Giant (letter sized) Guitar Chord Grids
Above you can see just some of the 100 "GIANT" (letter sized) Chord Grids along with some "reduced" guitar chord shapes for use in kid's guitar lessons that you can come as part of the "Deluxe Download". Laminate them for display during group guitar lessons, or distribute them as "mini posters" to your guitar students (kids love them!). Alternatively you can just stick them up on your teaching studio wall?
The "Coolest Wallpaper on the planet?"
Also included as a "freebie" in the "Deluxe Download" is.........
The Bass Guitar Teacher's Toolkit
Over 60 Handouts for anyone who already teaches (or who wishes to teach) bass guitar covering Scales, Chords, Fingering Exercises etc
Thats Over 400 Sheets and 35 backing tracks to Download and use TODAY!
Teaching guitar sure beats a day job?
The teachwombat guitar teaching toolkits give you just about everything you need to start or improve a guitar teaching business!
All of the resources that you see on this site for only $25.00
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Cheers! Rob!