Dave Wirth
This is tip #32 of my new book, How to Learn Guitar and Have Insane Amounts of Fun:
Teachers with anger issues are people with anger issues. Those who teach with anger will structure how they teach in a way that suits their anger. For example, a teacher who uses anger in her lessons is far more prone, subtly or not, to chastise her students for not being good enough. Some of these teachers make it seem like their students are stupid if they do not understand something. Most of these teachers have very little empathy for where their students are, and that is incredibly sad.
Conversely, a teacher who challenges his own feelings of anger when he is teaching will be far more open to you objecting to learning scales if you don't want to touch them. A teacher who is more empathetic will not be upset if you no longer have space in your life for guitar lessons. A teacher with compassion cares about you and the situation you are in as a human being first and a guitarist second.
Compassion and anger are polar opposites. Avoid the teacher with too much anger-ness.
If you had the entire book, you could find out the reasons why guitar teachers charge too much, or too little for their services. Want to check it out?
