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Need guitar help.?

I need a lesson plan for beginning guitarists, I'm not quite sure what to do. I'm a classical guitarists, and I need some sort of foundation or outline or something!!!! I want to teach classical guitar, but I think I'd have to teach music, but for beginning guitarists do I just teach them chords and the string names? how do I teach beginners to read music? should I teach how to read music? What sort of songs do I teach? What if I don't really have any materials? What do I do to make materials? ie: sheet music, chords, songs. What songs do I teach? AHHHHH!!!!!!!


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: For ANY instrument the basics must be taught first.
You will need to begin with a beginners guitar method course (Mel Bay, etc.) that can be found at any music store. This will teach the string names, how to read and some basic (1st position) chords.
Once the student has shown that they are capable of reading and playing you can move to a more specific study of genre based pieces.
The common problem with music students is compelling them to practice between lessons. I've found that the students who don't are learning for the wrong reasons.
Teaching music is very challenging. If your students have 'the knack' and really embrace the instrument, it can be extremely rewarding!