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Learn How To Teach Guitar Today

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Many people who decide to learn how to play the guitar eventually end up thinking that they would now like to teach the guitar. There are many people interested in taking guitar lessons, so if you curious about whether or not people would pay you for the lessons, there should be no doubts as to whether someone would pay you to teach them guitar playing and be happy to do it. There are not enough guitar teachers available but are so very many people interested in learning to play. It would be a fantastic idea if you are just now considering possibly pursuing this job.

First thing is first, now you will have to try and decide on how much you are wanting to charge your students for your guitar lessons. The average fee for guitar lessons, if someone plays for 30 mins, is about $20. So you can choose to go with that amount or possibly even a little bit higher just to see if you could actually get that amount for your guitar lessons. It would not hurt to atleast try going with that amount first. Try it a few times and if it does not work, stick with $20 for every thirty minutes.

Once you begin teaching guitar lessons and earning money by doing so, you will have to pay the store that helped you to get students in the first place, they will get 30% of what you earn, you get 70% of this income. The split between you the teacher and the store that helped you get the students will really just depend on what terms you are both going by. If the teacher collects the payments from his students then he will get the full 70%, however, if the store is the one collecting all of the payments, then the store will receive 30%, no less.

Remember an important thing when you begin teaching your students guitar lessons, always keep in close communications with the parents of any kids that you may be teaching guitar to. The parents are the one paying the fees for the guitar lessons, they always just really want to know if they are getting their moneys worth by paying you for guitar lessons for their kid. If they think you are not putting in all that you have for their kid they will more than likely choose to pull the kid out from your lessons.

Word of mouth gets around really fast, if you get a bad reputation right at the beginning, then you can probably be prepared for a not so good clientele. It is important to prove yourself in the beginning so that the word will get out there, that you are the teacher they should be coming to, in order to learn how to play the guitar. Your reputation is everything, especially when it comes to business and people being interested in paying you for your services. So, do all the homework before you begin teaching guitar lessons, so that you will be a reputable, honest, sincere much loved, guitar teacher.

Source: http://www.floweradvisor.com.sg/lifestyle/interests/music/55139/learn_how_to_teach_guitar_today/

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What is Organic and Fairtrade Tea and Coffee?

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Most of us dont realise that this tea is often grown on tea plantations in the developing world where the crops are sprayed with many chemicals and pesticides and the workers that pick the leaves are not only exposed to this danger but are often paid a pittance of a wage as well.
Organic and Fairtrade tea, coffee and cocoa are growing in popularity as people realise the benefits of spending those extra pennies per box and the payback in both health and human terms.

Why buy organic tea, coffee or cocoa?
Consumers usually decide to buy because production is carried out using sustainable farming practices, specifically not allowing deforestation to occur as part of plantation farming techniques.
Some producers go down the Fairtrade route, which gives the consumer further altruistic benefit in terms of assurance that the workers on the tea or coffee plantations have been working under improved terms and conditions, giving them a better quality of life and reducing exploitation. You can now buy organic, Fairtrade tea which is not much more expensive then just organic tea. I buy Morrisons own branded organic, fairtrade tea bags as its cheaper than the branded products such as clipper teas.

What exactly is organic I hear you ask?

Tea or coffee qualifies as organic only when environment-friendly techniques are employed in its production. An organic unit should essentially be a self-sustaining one, designing the farm at the time of establishment of new organic tea or coffee plantation is crucial for optimum utilization of resources within the plantation itself.

In order to establish organic tea fields or coffee plantations, it is necessary to build up inherent nutrient levels and neutralise the chemical residues left in soils from past cultivation. This requires an interim period – called the conversion period. Based on the agro-ecological conditions, this period may vary from 3 to 5 years. If plantation is taken up before conversion period is over, chemical residues may show up in the product. These processing techniques are sufficient to make it highly unusual for any pesticides to be present in the end product.

Insect pest and disease management

Insect and disease management in organic farming systems rely on the inherent equilibrium in nature. This includes using natural enemies of pests to keep their numbers in check.

There are many varieties of organic herbal teas now available also. Some of these have the added benefit of possessing medicinal properties. For example, peppermint tea aids indigestion and chamomile can soothe and relax you.
Find companies that sell organic tea in GuideMeGreen.com

Source: http://www.floweradvisor.com.sg/lifestyle/interests/organic_products/130/what_is_organic_and_fairtrade_tea_and_coffee_/

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The Species of Rose

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Manipur Wild-tea Rose, the beautiful species, was discovered by Sir George Watt in Manipur in 1882. As the botanical name implies, this is a huge species of rose, infact the largest. Shade tolerant and once blooming, 5″ light yellow single, very fragrant flowers.

An extensive climber, running over trees and forming at first straight unbranched stems, as thick as the arm, younger ones with a soft grey-brown bark and here and there short sharp hooked prickles; above completely ramified until it envelopes the trees on which it is found.

It thus produces a truly superb effect, and, when seen from a distance, causes the trees to appear like magnolias, with large yellow flowers. The leaves when young have a rich brownish green tint; when older they become pale shining green; leaflets 5-7, ovate-oblong, acuminate, shortly and sharply serrate, the terminal one on a long petiole (1 in.), the others almost sessile; stipules very long, linear, adnate throughout their length (except their spreading terminal arms) and thus extending along the greater portion of the leaf-stalk.

The fleshy hip or fruit is eaten by the Nagas, becomes as large as a small apple, and is smooth, glabrous, yellow (certainly never’ red, as has been said of the species grown in Europe) and sweetly scented.

 

Source: http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/fragrant.html

 

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