As guitar instruction increases in popularity in secondary schools, many band, choir, and orchestra teachers are asked to teach guitar. In one helpfully concise volume, Teaching Beginning Guitar Class: A Practical Guide provides all of the practical tools that are necessary to teach guitar in the classroom, especially for music instructors who are not guitar specialists. Formatted to follow the school year from summer planning to opening weeks of the fall semester to a week-to-week timeline for the full school year, Teaching Beginning Guitar Class encompasses all possible needs for a non-guitar playing music instructor navigating the world of guitar instruction in a classroom setting. In twelve expertly organized chapters, author and veteran guitar teacher Bill Swick gives hard and fast guides for instruction, providing reassurance alongside invaluable tips for novice guitar educators. This book addresses questions such as 'I Do Not Play Guitar, Why Do I have to Teach Guitar?'; 'What is the Classroom Lifespan of a Guitar?'; and 'New Students in January?' while also providing practical solutions including basic setup, how to select the correct method book, and equipment maintenance.

About the Author
Bill Swick currently teaches guitar for the twelve-time Grammy award winning Las Vegas Academy of the Arts and is the guitar task force chair for Clark County School District. Swick has served as faculty of Drake University and University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

Reviews
"Bill Swick is one of the leading pedagogues in the world of guitar education. His accomplishments, experience, and expertise are incredibly diverse and it is a privilege to share in his unique wisdom through this new publication. This book is an important guide for the classroom music teacher and a much needed methods book for collegiate guitar education."-Matt Denman, Director of Guitar Studies at Oklahoma City University, Director of Education at the Guitar Foundation of America, and Director of the Celedonio Romero Guitar Institute "Bill Swick is the acknowledged master of guitar program development and pedagogy. It is a gift to classroom guitar teachers that he has written and preserved his knowledge in this new book. I read each page with great interest towards improving my own classroom teaching. I recommend it as a desk reference for all guitar teachers."-Steve Eckels, author of Teaching Classroom Guitar



Book Information
ISBN 9780190661922
Author Bill Swick
Format Paperback
Page Count 226
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 481g
Dimensions(mm) 213mm * 277mm * 18mm