Sensible Guitar: For Teachers: Technique

This website is a companion to the book Sensible Guitar, an instructional method book for all guitar students...written primarily with teachers in mind. Most of the site is dedicated to providing supplemental material for students and teachers using the book. All of the material is provided by the book's author, Chris Cass, a long-time music educator who teaches guitar in Southern Connecticut. Any subjective viewpoints or recommendations are the author's own. Your questions, responses, or differences of opinion are welcome via email. (Click on the "contact" button at left.)

Teachers: If you find the following information useful, helpful, informative or well presented, please consider using Sensible Guitar with your students.

I'm using the pages designated "for teachers" to offer some tips and ideas about guitar teaching. There are also links to a few recommended resources, and an opportunity to submit your own comments. I hope you'll find this material useful, and that you'll use my method book, Sensible Guitar . It's written with teachers in mind, and I'm sure it will help you run your lessons more efficiently. ~C.C.

Technique
Thoughts on avoiding bad habits and
developing proper form

Coming Soon

Here's what you'll find within the sections of this website designated "for teachers":

My thoughts about assigning practice material;
A list of 10 bits of advice I feel are important but sometimes overlooked
A discussion of recommended books, and some tips on using them effectively
(CURRENT PAGE)A few words on the teaching of technique; avoiding formation of bad habits
Some thoughts on teaching young beginners
Links to some other websites I feel are helpful
An invitation to submit your own comments, thoughts, ideas or opinions

Please remember: Playing and teaching the guitar are art forms which have many "right" approaches...even to the extent that what's best for one student or teacher may be contradictory to what's best for another. I'm offering my own opinions and observations here, which I feel may be beneficial to the broadest number of "typical" students and teachers. Alternative viewpoints may be equally correct. I welcome input from any guitar instructors, and will keep any correspondences confidential, or post them on this website at your discretion. Please feel free to submit your thoughts via email. (Again, it's chris@sensibleguitar.com).