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The SBL Podcast

80 - So you wanna be a bass teacher (and earn more money)

The SBL Podcast

Scott's Bass Lessons

Bass, Electric Bass, Sbl, Education, Music Interviews, Online Bass Lessons, Music, Bass Guitar, Scott's Bass Lessons

4.8522 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

If you’re a bass player and you feel ready to earn some extra cash by passing on your skills to others, setting up as a teacher could be a really good move. But how do you become a bass teacher? What credentials do you need? In this episode, we walk you through the minimum requirements for teaching as well as some steps to get you started. In this episode you’re going to learn: Why you should become a bass teacher.Do you need a qualification?How do you get students?What’s the first thing you ...

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0:00.0

What's up and welcome to another episode of the Scott and Ian show on the SBL podcast.

0:06.7

Today, Scott and I are talking about a subject that we are very passionate about.

0:11.7

I remember saying at some point, into my sunset years, I think I'm really going to focus on education.

0:19.2

What a thing to say, but I remember saying that, and it's sort of like surprised me.

0:23.2

I'm like sunset years.

0:24.9

Probably heard someone say it and just like parroted it back.

0:28.1

But I love education.

0:30.3

For me, seeing that light bulb go off for somebody, it's a big deal.

0:34.5

And obviously it is to Scott too.

0:37.1

So this episode is all about teaching.

0:40.4

We're going to talk about how to be a better teacher.

0:43.1

We're also going to talk about how to get more students, right?

0:48.2

Even if you want people to come into your space, get more students one-on-one,

0:52.7

or even go past that and think about your business,

0:56.5

your teaching business as a business, because it is. I encourage you to think about it that way

1:01.6

and think about growing it in a way like Scott did with an online business that can actually

1:06.4

scale. I used to not know what that word meant. It just meant you can be in one more than one

1:12.1

place at the same time. I sometimes say like, God, I wish I had a cloning device. Well,

1:18.1

if you scale an online business, you don't need one because people can study with you at the

1:22.5

same time asynchronously all over the world. So this pertains to you if you want to get better at teaching,

1:30.4

if you want to make more money teaching, if you want to get more students, if you want to scale

1:34.5

a business, we talk all about it. And we are passionate, passionate educators. And hey, segue

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