This part of the download contains well over a hundred professionally produced letter sized guitar teaching handouts that you can simply print or photocopy. Chords, Scales, Fingering Exercises (such as the three featured in the video at the bottom of this page) and each of the seven diatonic Guitar Modes. Its all there, presented neatly and professionally.
In addition the teachwombat guitar teacher's toolkit features a comprehensive range of tab, blank fretboard, and notation sheets in a whole range of combinations as well as loads of guitar chord grids and diagrams that any guitar teacher needs on a daily basis.
The resources are designed to complement our materials (also included in the $25.00 Deluxe Download) that set out to help a teacher to get children to play the guitar "properly" from a standing start
During the beginners phase of guitar playing a student should learn to move smoothly between the eight open chords (shown on the handout above) that any novice should learn first. Running alongside this they may also enjoy working with single note patterns (riffs, tunes etc) themed around music with which they are already familiar
There are a whole load of resources designed to help guitar teachers to help beginners to "really" play the guitar ranging from sheets containing the best chords for a novice to work with through to blank neck and tab sheets and material relating to the first scales that any beginner should learn to work with
When a beginner is comfortable moving between the eight most useful open chords in time to music they are ready to move on to the "intermediate" stage of guitar playing when their fingers will be ready to take on new challenges such as power/bar chords and beginning to work with common scales (such as the Pentatonic Minor and the Blues Scale)
Our comprehensive range of resources (just some of which you can see above) are designed to help ensure that a guitar teacher spends their lesson time actually teaching rather than constantly having to "improvise" hastily prepared teaching aids
Above you can see some of our materials designed to help guitar teachers to work with players who are looking to move beyond the intermediate stage. We have a series of resources dealing with all seven modes and a whole load of stuff that gets students thinking about how music works rather than just where to put their fingers in order to get a nice noise
An important part of helping students to master this phase of learning the guitar is to encourage our students to "play the guitar with their brains rather than with their hands During the earlier beginner and intermediate stages of playing it is desirable that music theory takes a back seat while our students develop a physical capability on the instrument but it is equally important that when the time is right they are encouraged and enabled to understand what they are playing and why rather than just where we (or a youtube video) told them to put their fingers
Playing (and teaching) guitar is not all about the technical approach. We also have materials designed to allow guitar students to explore and understand some of the more creative and artistic elements of becoming and effective musician
Follow the link below to see more about helping our students to understand how to construct chord sequences that work every time
We provide guitar and bass guitar teachers all over the world with the professional quality resources that they require in order to remain one step ahead of the competition. We also offer you invaluable and direct help with marketing and promoting your guitar or bass teaching business with our simple but remarkably effective guitar teacher's business card designs.
Teachwombat also offers aid to guitar and bass instructors by featuring a wide range of articles relevant to particular situations in which guitar or bass teachers might face during the course of a normal working day such as the provision of guitar instruction to young children or small group work etc..
The site also provides advice centred around teaching a first guitar lesson and many other related areas. Another positive feature of our of material is that they do not feature our logo stuck all over them. Because of this your customers (and your competition!) won't know where you found us.
The picture above features just some of the sheets that form part of the guitar teacher's toolkit
The Guitar and Bass Teacher's Toolkits contain a huge variety of blank necks, chord grids, tablature and standard notation sheets. These products are designed so that you can use them as you go or even better, they allow a guitar or bass teacher to prepare favourite or often used lessons and examples in advance.
The picture below shows just a few of the blank resources. You will find guitar teaching sheets that combine chord grids and necks with tablature and notation. You can be sure that that you will always be able to impress your customers with a professional looking handout to help them understand the concepts that you need to get over to them.
Any experienced guitar or bass instructor knows the value of excellent preparation and by making use of a scanner or photocopier these "blank" elements of the toolkits allow you to build up a library of favourite or often used guitar teaching content as you go.
Above you can see just a few examples of the blank guitar and bass teacher's handouts .
In addition to the paper based products that we make teachwombat has just introduced a "Backing Tracks and Handouts Package" designed to dovetail smoothly with our existing materials.
We have produced a set of TWENTY downloadable guitar backing tracks with accompanying handouts featuring the easy guitar chord diagrams to go along with them. These materials have been especially designed to be used not only for novice guitar players learning open position chords but also for intermediate standard students who need to work on bar chords and guitar soloing techniques etc. You can simply drop the tracks onto CD's for your pupils or even email them to your customers safe in the knowledge that they won't just be practicing the chord shapes but will be working towards playing them in time to the music.
The chord sequences featured on the Backing Tracks are largely based around the CAGED Guitar system which is used by teachers around the World as a way of developing novice musicians. The Chords in open position are C A Am G E Em D and Dm (hence CAGED).For absolute beginners this means that they are exposed to a set of open position chords generally regarded as the easiest and most useful to learn.
The backing tracks and handouts in the package are directed not only at total beginners but at the intermediate level players who need to develop skills with relation to bar chords/knowledge of the neck etc. To this end some of the handouts feature bar chord root finders as well as the relevant chord diagrams.
The backing tracks encourage a student not only to learn the shapes and change from one to the other but more importantly to make those changes in time with the music.
Its the distinction between awareness of the chords and familiarity with them. In educational terms this makes a huge difference to a guitar student's progress
The backing track can be used to help students develop the ability to play open chords, bar chords or to solo (maybe using the Am pentatonic scale?)
In the backing tracks and handouts package we have sheets that you can distribute to your students for each of these outcomes
"The Big Grids" have developed to have another life all of their own.
The situation was that guitar students from the group sessions began to request copies of the grids to stick on their own walls at home. It then turned out that students who took individual lessons were just as keen to have access to what one of them called “The Big Wall Of Knowledge”
Many guitar teachers choose to line the walls of their teaching studios with the big grids (they look great printed out on high quality paper) as an aid to teaching. It looks fantastic and pointing at a giant chord shape on the wall can be preferable to squinting at a diagram three feet away on a music stand?
Part of the guitar teacher's toolkit are a selection of guitar themed business card designs that you can just import into any photo editing package and then from there its simple to add your own text.
The files are presented in ordainary jpeg format allowing you to originate the professional looking material required to promote your business . they can also be used to provide the basis for "camera ready" artwork for any publications or websites that you may use for advertising purposes
Another handy feature of the teachwombat.com materials is that they don't feature our logo all over them. That way your customers (and your competition!) won't know where you found them.
There is an extremely useful guitar teaching diary and accounting system that comes with both the guitar and bass teaching toolkit. The teacher's diary and appointment sheets allow you to record details of daily or weekly income and expenditure as you go.
Say goodbye to that sinking feeling that you get when you open the door to a lesson you forgot that you booked or worse still opening it and finding two students that you accidentaly told to come at the same time!
The diary and accounting systemtakes the hassle out of booking appointments and doing the annual accounts.
The flexible system gives you a choice of"day to view" or "week to view&" diary form and it also contains separate sheets so that you can record details of expenditure etc if required.
It's the boring stuff and not the reason why we teach guitar and bass guitar but since it has to be done we might as well make it as easy and stress free as possible?
The picture above shows the elements of the guitar teacher's diary and appointments system
The Bass Teacher's Toolkit is made up of over more than sixty handouts (that's why it's less expensive than the guitar one). It covers just about everything that you need to teach bass guitar for a living.
The kit contains printable handouts featuring Chord Arpeggios, Scales and Modes along with a range of Blank Bass Guitar necks and Bass Tab Sheets that you can fill in as required. Like the guitar package the material presented will guarrantee that you are ready for any teaching situation.
This allows any bass teacher to free up the time that they spend preparing and get on with the profitable and enjoyable part of teaching bass guitar
Heres a picture of just a few of the teachwombat bass guitar teacher's handouts
They take care of the payment side and you can be sure that we never get to see your credit card detailsYou can pay with a credit card (via PayPal) or with a PayPal account if you have one.
