[TBman]

I've never been the teacher, but I remember being a 9 year old going to guitar lessons with this old guy as a teacher who had me learning single note songs from a guitar book (Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) as opposed to the Beatles songs my friends and I were teaching ourselves from someone's big brothers song book.

The lessons didn't get far.

It was a case of ignoring the wants of the student and underestimating the student's current skill level.

The question asked was "Gee can you read the C scale and play it" instead of "How many barre chords did you teach yourself so far?" and "What songs can you play and what do you want to play?"

Moral of the story - Music theory is not necessary to learn how to play the guitar and to have fun with it. The fun keeps the student interested in the instrument.

You don't have to teach Newton's theory of gravity to have a catch with a kid.