Teaching Beginners Guitar

Hello,

I've started teaching guitar lessons not too long ago and I've got a few students who are absolute beginners with no musical background whatsoever. They're learning on the acoustic guitar and I'm having trouble figuring out fun lessons to teach them.

I was wondering if anyone had any good songs for beginning guitarists.

Something popular and recognizable.

I'm pretty okay with teaching basic music theory, but if you have any advice for that I'd be happy to hear as well.

Anyway thanks for the help it's greatly appreciated.

-Drew

there is "Fanny solo " Marc Khalifa very easy to learn (and teach ) there is also "skip to my lou" an american folk and "L'eau vive" Guy B

Classical guitar or "popular guitar"?

May want to begin with asking them what kind of music they like or a song they would like to learn. For classical, my guitar teacher usually gives them a popular melody to learn. I think age plays a big factor in teaching beginners.

there is a book I think it's called GUITARAMA really useful !

yeah, I should have specified,

I'm teaching them popular guitar not classical

there is Katioucha (M.Blanter) and Vidalita (Argentinian Folk ) really nice tempo very nice to learn, (the songs i've mentioned before can be useful too even for popular guitar players )

Any "chordy" song will do. Throw in a melody line here and there, and it's golden...

Why not ask your students what songs they want to learn, and then apply the techniques to those songs?

leaving on a jet plane, when September ends, that are some of the songs could easily be played by a guitar. hope i can help ;)