Dream @ work
I have an idea of what I want life to be like.
Hopefully getting a 9-5 job and a steady income monthly and have a harmonious family.
But one idea keep coming back to me from people around me and I'm starting to consider it as well. Not too sure how feasible it is, but I think I can see a blue print for now.
Teaching Acoustic Guitar.
It is a passion of mine to teach something that I'm passionate about, acoustic guitars. The definition of an acoustic guitar is a hollow guitar with steel strings and the last 4 strings are coated with bronze. Semi-acoustic are those with pick-ups installed to be plugged in to amplify the guitar sound.
I've been playing guitars for the past 6 years and was wondering whether are there people outside who are interested to play:
1. Songs - This includes chords mainly. Yes, you don't have to know how to read notes to play a song. One can strum chords and read tabs to do so (I find this the easiest and more interesting way to begin learning guitar. Yes, your pretty fingers will begin to hurt depending on the amount of practice you put in). You can opt to read notes as well. I can teach Gred 1 classical guitar. =D
2. Fingerstyle/plucking - A wide range of guitar dynamics can be expressed through fingerstyle.
3. For fun/personal pleasure
4. Performing - This is mainly playing and singing or playing for a singer or band.
5. Worship - Leading worship with the guitar or playing for the church band.
For now
It will probably start in my house or I'll start by traveling to my students house around P.J. for now. Which is fine. But hopefully in a year or two I may be able to get a base of students an a place to teach and sell guitars etc. Yes, you guessed, like a music shop.
And yes, like all parent's concern, and so is my concern, which is to finish my studies first. Currently a little busy with my dissertation for my final semester doing a Degree in Business Management Majoring in Marketing zzzzzz. Man! I would rather do a Degree in Ownage Guitaring Masterclass for Uber genius!!
Of course even if there is such a thing, I'll probably fail or get kicked out or both, after the first class. For those who want to know about me, (those few)... I'll be finishing my little degree in January...
Further in the Future
Also planning to target surrounding churches to have worship courses to teach/ground existing/future musicians in the worship band to firstly know the heart of God/worship and to play the guitar in a worship in song setting (and maybe to lead worship in song).
And to maybe go to smaller towns around Malaysia to conduct guitar workshops for the guitarist in those churches around Malaysia, probably with smaller churches that we can keep in relationship with and keep coming back and help in anyway we can.
Hopefully I can send some of my students to teach with me and down the road to conduct clinics by themselves to help the poorer churches around. (Maybe persecution may come more strongly and evidently then ;D I'm NOT prophesying. Don't shoot me!!)
Materials
I also want to come out with my own material to be used for my classes as well as combining materials from other good books that are relevant to conduct my classes. As for now, I teach according to what the students want to learn, ie Cool songs! emo songs, church songs, kiddy songs, RAWK songs, and all sorts of easy to advance fingerstyle technique in all those songs.
My students are from 9 years old, YES Keane, that's YOU I'm talking about, and my previous student age around 40++? Basically, there's no age limit when you.... no no, there IS an age limit as I'm not specialize to teach 1/2 month old baby or 92 years old granny when their fingers aren't really steady and firm to press on those semi-hard steel, bronze coated strings yea... yea...
Job Offer - Materials
I just went to Guitar Store yesterday the one in Hartamas and they offered me a job to be a guitar teacher there to teach acoustic guitar. I went in there (as usual trying to play some really good guitars only to 'crave' owning one myself) and picked up a "Farida" (a not so expensive and impressive piece of wood) and plugged it into an AER amp (an amplifier that's the best in the world for acoustic guitars) and played a few finger style pieces to tease myself with my limited skills before a gig in lepaq in Hartamas. After playing a few minutes, I'm off to eat dinner with Huey, so I handed the guitar back to "Lee" the guy that sold Kevin's guitar to Kevin... Yeah, that makes sense. And then he commented on my playing and ask if I wanted a job. In my heart I was like "ALRIGHTZ! Some one recognize UBER authentic rare talent!!" mmm.... Only to find out they just lack in guitar teachers *ego crushed, brought back to reality*. So I filled in some form and left.
Oh yea, the purpose of me telling you this story is so that I can comment on their material! yes! Getting to the point, they told me that I must follow strictly to their "materials" and Lady: "anything other than that you are free to do ie like using your phone to record video of me playing so students won't forget what they've just learn when they go home". By materials I mean books that, Same Lady: "we don't really have much acoustic guitar material as well, but you must follow our materials..." ???? Alright?? Basically all students are instructed to buy those books as material from Guitar Store when they opt to learn from the company. And I've yet to look at their materials but I can kinda guess it might be very stiff and not very fluid as other acoustic guitar materials I've seen before.
So with this understanding, I feel compelled to write my own materials where I find it relevant to what I teach my students. I suppose I'll drag-n-drop stuff from various books (with careful thought of copyright laws) to aid my materials. This is quite far in the future assuming that all goes well. And then I can also give the materials to other churches that will hopefully aid their guitarist if they have one.
Oh well, small plans, small dreams... It may just all be a dream after all. Which is fine. A man's allowed to dream yea?
For now the fees are:
Fees RM100 monthly - 45 minutes per lesson, 4 x a month
Location - For now I travel to my student's house. Next time hopefully I'll base myself some where.
Subject - Acoustic Guitar - This includes basic to intermediate strumming technique and fingerstlye (in other words, plucking). Yes, Chords are included. xD
Crash course - RM25 per lesson - up to 3 times a week (Mainly for students who are having year end holidays of breaks for a month or more). Not as effective but still workable.
Hopefully getting a 9-5 job and a steady income monthly and have a harmonious family.
But one idea keep coming back to me from people around me and I'm starting to consider it as well. Not too sure how feasible it is, but I think I can see a blue print for now.
Teaching Acoustic Guitar.
It is a passion of mine to teach something that I'm passionate about, acoustic guitars. The definition of an acoustic guitar is a hollow guitar with steel strings and the last 4 strings are coated with bronze. Semi-acoustic are those with pick-ups installed to be plugged in to amplify the guitar sound.
I've been playing guitars for the past 6 years and was wondering whether are there people outside who are interested to play:
1. Songs - This includes chords mainly. Yes, you don't have to know how to read notes to play a song. One can strum chords and read tabs to do so (I find this the easiest and more interesting way to begin learning guitar. Yes, your pretty fingers will begin to hurt depending on the amount of practice you put in). You can opt to read notes as well. I can teach Gred 1 classical guitar. =D
2. Fingerstyle/plucking - A wide range of guitar dynamics can be expressed through fingerstyle.
3. For fun/personal pleasure
4. Performing - This is mainly playing and singing or playing for a singer or band.
5. Worship - Leading worship with the guitar or playing for the church band.
For now
It will probably start in my house or I'll start by traveling to my students house around P.J. for now. Which is fine. But hopefully in a year or two I may be able to get a base of students an a place to teach and sell guitars etc. Yes, you guessed, like a music shop.
And yes, like all parent's concern, and so is my concern, which is to finish my studies first. Currently a little busy with my dissertation for my final semester doing a Degree in Business Management Majoring in Marketing zzzzzz. Man! I would rather do a Degree in Ownage Guitaring Masterclass for Uber genius!!
Of course even if there is such a thing, I'll probably fail or get kicked out or both, after the first class. For those who want to know about me, (those few)... I'll be finishing my little degree in January...
Further in the Future
Also planning to target surrounding churches to have worship courses to teach/ground existing/future musicians in the worship band to firstly know the heart of God/worship and to play the guitar in a worship in song setting (and maybe to lead worship in song).
And to maybe go to smaller towns around Malaysia to conduct guitar workshops for the guitarist in those churches around Malaysia, probably with smaller churches that we can keep in relationship with and keep coming back and help in anyway we can.
Hopefully I can send some of my students to teach with me and down the road to conduct clinics by themselves to help the poorer churches around. (Maybe persecution may come more strongly and evidently then ;D I'm NOT prophesying. Don't shoot me!!)
Materials
I also want to come out with my own material to be used for my classes as well as combining materials from other good books that are relevant to conduct my classes. As for now, I teach according to what the students want to learn, ie Cool songs! emo songs, church songs, kiddy songs, RAWK songs, and all sorts of easy to advance fingerstyle technique in all those songs.
My students are from 9 years old, YES Keane, that's YOU I'm talking about, and my previous student age around 40++? Basically, there's no age limit when you.... no no, there IS an age limit as I'm not specialize to teach 1/2 month old baby or 92 years old granny when their fingers aren't really steady and firm to press on those semi-hard steel, bronze coated strings yea... yea...
Job Offer - Materials
I just went to Guitar Store yesterday the one in Hartamas and they offered me a job to be a guitar teacher there to teach acoustic guitar. I went in there (as usual trying to play some really good guitars only to 'crave' owning one myself) and picked up a "Farida" (a not so expensive and impressive piece of wood) and plugged it into an AER amp (an amplifier that's the best in the world for acoustic guitars) and played a few finger style pieces to tease myself with my limited skills before a gig in lepaq in Hartamas. After playing a few minutes, I'm off to eat dinner with Huey, so I handed the guitar back to "Lee" the guy that sold Kevin's guitar to Kevin... Yeah, that makes sense. And then he commented on my playing and ask if I wanted a job. In my heart I was like "ALRIGHTZ! Some one recognize UBER authentic rare talent!!" mmm.... Only to find out they just lack in guitar teachers *ego crushed, brought back to reality*. So I filled in some form and left.
Oh yea, the purpose of me telling you this story is so that I can comment on their material! yes! Getting to the point, they told me that I must follow strictly to their "materials" and Lady: "anything other than that you are free to do ie like using your phone to record video of me playing so students won't forget what they've just learn when they go home". By materials I mean books that, Same Lady: "we don't really have much acoustic guitar material as well, but you must follow our materials..." ???? Alright?? Basically all students are instructed to buy those books as material from Guitar Store when they opt to learn from the company. And I've yet to look at their materials but I can kinda guess it might be very stiff and not very fluid as other acoustic guitar materials I've seen before.
So with this understanding, I feel compelled to write my own materials where I find it relevant to what I teach my students. I suppose I'll drag-n-drop stuff from various books (with careful thought of copyright laws) to aid my materials. This is quite far in the future assuming that all goes well. And then I can also give the materials to other churches that will hopefully aid their guitarist if they have one.
Oh well, small plans, small dreams... It may just all be a dream after all. Which is fine. A man's allowed to dream yea?
For now the fees are:
Fees RM100 monthly - 45 minutes per lesson, 4 x a month
Location - For now I travel to my student's house. Next time hopefully I'll base myself some where.
Subject - Acoustic Guitar - This includes basic to intermediate strumming technique and fingerstlye (in other words, plucking). Yes, Chords are included. xD
Crash course - RM25 per lesson - up to 3 times a week (Mainly for students who are having year end holidays of breaks for a month or more). Not as effective but still workable.
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