Teaching Classroom Guitar

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The first comprehensive teaching manual for guitar, Teaching Classroom Guitar will help you engage your students with relevant content. Designed to get the most out of your chosen method book, it can easily serve as a college textbook or as a desk reference for teachers at all levels. Written by a master classical guitarist with fifteen years of classroom guitar teaching experience, the book provides outlines for daily, weekly, and semester planning. An outgrowth of Steve Eckels's summer seminars for teachers, the book covers it allfrom planning, assessment, and music reading to chords and music theory, jazz harmony and improvisation, remedial techniques, and more. Reproducible templates for assessment, grid and staff paper, and worksheets make it easy to implement the instructional strategies. The extensive listing of popular songs by grade level make choosing repertoire easy. Discover the excitement of teaching this popular and motivating instrument.

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This is a much-needed approach for guitar educators since it will assist both experienced and novice guitarists teaching popular styles in the classroom. For any musical style, there are many good tools to manage class progress in this book, delivered in a sensitive and very positive way. -- Michael Quantz, education director, Guitar Foundation of America
Teaching Classroom Guitar is full of great tips for guitar teachers at all levels of teaching, tips that you don't find in standard methods books. -- Suzanne Shull, MENC guitar education team clinician and career classroom music teacher
A complete education should include music education, shown to improve performance in both math and science. Education is for life, teachers who continue to educate themselves improve their ability to engage students and pass along the skills relayed in this book. -- Brian Schweitzer, governor, Montana
An impressive collection of a wide array of tools useful for general classroom guitar education. Steve Eckels demonstrates that he is an educator of experience, breadth, and depth. The information is accurate and methodology well thought out. A veritable treasure trove for the general classroom guitar teacher. -- Gregg Goodhart, chair, Music Department, and director of the classical guitar program, Servite High School, Anaheim, California
I've been teaching a one semester generic guitar course at the University of Maine and the University of Southern Maine for 25 years. The course has morphed into guitar course for music education majors. Your book has been instrumental in furthering this gradual transformation. It is a formidable text! Every idea I've ever had or stolen about teaching this course is in your book plus many more. As a classical guitarist I appreciate the inclusion of good posture and sensible use of the hands etc. Congratulations on such a thorough and no nonsense book. There is absolutely no fat in it! -- Keith Crook, classical guitar instructor at The School of Music at the University of Southern Maine

Author Bio

Steve Eckels is a National Board-certified guitar instructor at Flathead High School, Montana, the author of over twenty guitar books for MEL BAY publications, and a master guitarist.