How do I teach about the guitar in 15 minutes?
GuitarFreak101 asked:
I have been playing guitar for around ten years, and I have an assignment in school where I have to teach about a passion of mine. I have a fifteen minute time span to do so. I am not trying to teach the rest of the class how to play guitar. I just want to teach them about it. Any ideas. Outlines would be enjoyed.
THANKS!
I have been playing guitar for around ten years, and I have an assignment in school where I have to teach about a passion of mine. I have a fifteen minute time span to do so. I am not trying to teach the rest of the class how to play guitar. I just want to teach them about it. Any ideas. Outlines would be enjoyed.
THANKS!
I will not give you an outline, but I will give you suggestions.
You can teach them about how you learned about the guitar. What got you interested in it? Maybe how you learned to play and where you learned. What kind of teachers you had. How you learned the notes and the strings and frets and all those things. Show them how much you love it.
You can bring in music and have them try to pick out lead and rhythm guitars. Teach them how to tell the difference.
Try the following ideas. What you want to include is up to you:
Why you started playing?
Why you enjoy playing?
Why are you still playing?
Were you inspired to pick up the guitar?
A histroy of the guitar.
Talk about the different styles of guitar.
Talk about some of your favourite players and their techniques.
Why you think guitar is the best instrument.
Talk about basic music theory.
You could even perform a song on your guitar for your class.
What you include is up to you
Hope this helps.
There’s a lot of history of how guitar took off when it was finally amplified. Guitar used to be regulated as a side instrument…mostly for rhythm playing in the big band era…simply because it couldn’t compete “volume-wise.”
Also..early bands like the Ventures “Walk Don’t Run,” Hawaii Five-O” popularized the guitar, and production took off. All of this was before the “British Invasion” which also was ‘instrumental’ (nice pun, huh?) in the rise of popularity of the guitar.
Manufacturing techniques also changed during this era, allowing companies to make decent affordable instruments.