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So You Want to Be a Full-time Guitar Tutor?
Author(s): Al Summers (Author)
- Publisher: Luniver Pr
- Publication Date: December 15, 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 56 pages
- ISBN-10: 1905986025
- ISBN-13: 9781905986026
Book Description
A number of books have written aimed at music teachers. Most centre on classroom tuition; a few cover general instrumental teaching but, again, the emphasis is often on working in schools and/or in group contexts. This book is a practical look at being a full-time, privately-based guitar tutor delivering lessons on a mainly one-to-one basis. The text is not about lesson content but about the business and day-to-day running of a tuition practice and the considerations a tutor needs to keep in mind. The book will be useful to those considering taking this step, those new to the profession and to those stepping up from part-time tuition as well as being full of insights and helpful tips for those who are already full-time guitar teachers. Indeed, any private or peripatetic music tutor will find something of benefit within these thoughtful pages, based upon over three decades of experience.
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About the Author
Al Summers is a composer, project leader and music education consultant but sees himself primarily as a music tutor working on a one-to-one basis. He gave his first guitar lesson in the early 1970s and has taught ever since.
He has also operated as a performer and session musician playing on a number of instruments and covering many styles. His preferred instruments are guitar and lute.
He is currently involved in a long-term Youth Music project as a community composer and as a composer for London College of Music examinations.
While he has written over a dozen books on music theory, this is his first on guitar tuition.
