Question

Most of my friends are wanting me too teach them how to play guitar. I keep telling them Im not good enough to teach and they and their parents as well say I am but I don't think I am ready too teach. For example my friend devin, he wants me too teach him how to gain speed, but i have no speed and he thinks i know what to tell him to make him faster, and i can teach him how to. Crap Im still trying to gain speed and I still can't get what I want. I don't want to be a dick too them but you know I can't teach what i don't know. If someone would like just reply and give my friends a message i will print it out and show them. Thanks alot everyone.

Try printing this out:

Guitar teacher available.
Rates: $50 per half hour lesson. Initial sign up fee $1000

That should shut em up :p

Satriani taught Vai how to play while he was still learning himself. I bet if you did start teaching, it would also help you out because it would make you look at the material you were teaching more abstractly.

I just realized my message didn't get you off the hook. Sorry bro. :( Are you worried about screwing your friends up by passing along bad info? Or is there another reason you don't wanna teach?

Teaching others is the best way to learn, plus you'd get paid.
How much sweeter can it get?

I hated teaching because most of those kids got their guitars for christmas and weren't dedicated, so every week we'd run over the same crap. you get paid true, but it was disheartening. if you've got a dedicated musician asking for help it's a blessed thing and teach him/her all you know even if you don't think it's much.

(on the other hand, you could be teaching him or her bad technique which will only result in injury and/or death. tell him that. he could die.)

Originally posted by daveasdf
I hated teaching because most of those kids got their guitars for christmas and weren't dedicated, so every week we'd run over the same crap. you get paid true, but it was disheartening. if you've got a dedicated musician asking for help it's a blessed thing and teach him/her all you know even if you don't think it's much.

(on the other hand, you could be teaching him or her bad technique which will only result in injury and/or death. tell him that. he could die.)

So thats why my guitar teacher likes me so much, besides my sexiness and all.

You've gotta be faster then him, if he's asking you to teach him how to be faster. My advice: tell him to just practice, and tell him you're not qualified to teach him (that'll shut him up).

Originally posted by Leedogg
I just realized my message didn't get you off the hook. Sorry bro. :( Are you worried about screwing your friends up by passing along bad info? Or is there another reason you don't wanna teach?

No I don't mind showing what I know but I mean Im no guitar god and that's how they think, I think I am decent but not to the best of what I want to be. I just don't want them thinking that guitar is easy coz it's not. I would teach what I know but they ask too much. Make any sense?

I think so. You're saying that your buddies are putting you up on a golden pedastol that you feel you don't belong on. I've been there. My one friend kinda latched on to me about a year after I started playing. I was still pretty lousy back then, but distorted power chords were enough to make my friend think that I was too a god, and that we should begin touring immediately. (He copped out and wanted to be the singer...bad...bad singer)

At any rate, just try leveling with your friend. Tell him that he's got you twisted, and that you'd be happy to show him what you know, but that you don't have all the answers, and that you feel you've still got a lot to learn too.

Quality instruction is important.
I think that's why this guy doesn't feel ready to teach.
And he's right,I must say.
It's abit like sex.The fundametnals are very basic.It's the technique is what really makes the difference.

Originally posted by kingdavid
Quality instruction is important.
I think that's why this guy doesn't feel ready to teach.
And he's right,I must say.
It's abit like sex.The fundametnals are very basic.It's the technique is what really makes the difference.

Yeah but sex is eaiser lol. But don't get me wrong it's not that I don't wanna teach it's just Im not ready like you said, I could show some chords and stuff but you know what I mean I think.

You could just say something lame (but believable) like, "I'm sorry, I just don't have the time." Say something about how you have a lot of schoolwork, or some BS. It may not be the most honorable way to get out of it, but it may be the only thing that this person might buy.

... or you could tell them the truth. It'd make things so much easier. I'm sure the person wouldn't be too offended.