Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Effective Planning Chapter 3 Assessment Techniques Chapter 4 Applying the National Standards for Music Education Chapter 5 Your Strengths as an Educator Part 6 Preliminaries Chapter 7 Preparations Chapter 8 Quick Start: Your First Week Chapter 9 Hand and Body Positions: Learning How to Learn Chapter 10 The Right Hand: Using the Thumb and Pick Chapter 11 The Left Hand Chapter 12 Strength and Motion Chapter 13 Teaching Individual Tuning Chapter 14 Group-Tuning Techniques Part 15 Music Reading Chapter 16 The Natural-Note Scale Chapter 17 Music Reading Chapter 18 Ensembles Part 19 Chords and Accompaniments Chapter 20 How and Why to Teach Power Chords Chapter 21 Playing Bass Chapter 22 Teaching Chords Chapter 23 Strumming Chapter 24 Chord Progressions Chapter 25 Finger Picking Chapter 26 Teaching Songs Chapter 27 Teaching Singing and Playing Chapter 28 Barre Forms and Transposition Part 29 Intermediate Skills Chapter 30 Improvisation Chapter 31 Student Combos Chapter 32 Teaching Music Theory Chapter 33 Teaching Jazz Chords Chapter 34 Teaching Solo and Classical Guitar Chapter 35 Tablature Chapter 36 Hammering-On, Pulling-Off, and Two-Handed Tapping Techniques Chapter 37 Reference Frets and the Entire Fretboard Part 38 Remedial Techniques Chapter 39 Remedial and Artistic Uses of the Capo Chapter 40 The Benefits of Teaching Melodies on One String Chapter 41 Using Riffs for Educational Purposes Part 42 The Guitar Room, Guitars, and Independent Study Chapter 43 Setting Up the Guitar Room and Equipment Chapter 44 Guitars and Accessories Chapter 45 Independent Study

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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*