Guitar Tutor

About the role

Join the Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform, where thousands of students nationwide seek online Guitar tutors. Enjoy the flexibility to set your own schedule, earn competitive rates, and make a meaningful impact on students' academic success—all from the comfort of your home.

Benefits

• Earn incrementally higher pay for each session with the same student, reaching up to $40/hour.
• Get paid up to twice per week for fast and reliable compensation.
• Set your own hours and tutor as much as you'd like.
• Tutor remotely using our purpose-built Live Learning Platform—no commuting required.
• Get matched with students best-suited to your teaching style and expertise.
• Our AI-powered Tutor Copilot enhances sessions with real-time instructional support, lesson generation, and engagement features, saving you prep time.
• We handle logistics—you invoice for sessions, and we take care of payments.

Responsibilities

• Teach progressive guitar technique, including fretting, strumming, fingerpicking, chord voicings, scales, and music theory for guitar.
• Explain barre chords, pentatonic and modal scales, rhythm patterns, and prepare students for performance, auditions, and music coursework.
• Guide students through proper hand positioning, open and barre chord mastery, scale pattern navigation, fingerpicking technique, and song learning approaches.
• Emphasize connecting technique to musical goals and teach practice strategies, music theory, songwriting, and ensemble performance.
• Adapt instruction using method books, popular song arrangements, and technique exercises tailored to student goals.
• Support learners from absolute beginners through advanced players in acoustic, electric, classical, or popular guitar styles.
• Identify and address common student challenges, such as finger strength development, barre chord difficulty, and reading standard notation versus tablature.
• Provide personalized instruction through 1-on-1 online tutoring or accept on-demand tutoring requests when available.

Requirements

• Deep knowledge of guitar technique, including tablature and standard notation reading, and repertoire across acoustic, electric, classical, and popular styles.
• Ability to explain concepts using multiple approaches and adapt instruction to individual learning needs and styles.
• Familiarity with guitar pedagogy methods and common student challenges.
• Strong communication skills and a friendly, engaging teaching style.

About the company

Varsity Tutors' mission is to transform learning by leveraging advanced technology, AI, and learning science to create personalized experiences. Through 1-on-1 online tutoring, students receive customized instruction tailored to their goals. Our platform matches students with the right tutors to foster better outcomes and a passion for learning.

Note: Varsity Tutors does not contract in Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, or Puerto Rico.