A lesson plan that mirrors how guitar lessons actually run
The blank-piece-of-paper approach to lesson planning is what most tutors do — and what most tutors complain about. By the third or fourth lesson with a student you have nothing to compare against; by the third term you can’t remember what they worked on last May.
This planner solves that with a fixed structure: five blocks that map to the way one-to-one guitar lessons actually unfold. Warm-up to settle the hands, a focused technique segment, two repertoire slots (so the student isn’t playing the same song for the third week running), a short theory or ear-training block, and a homework section that sets the next week’s practice. A “prep for next lesson” box at the bottom captures what to open with next time — the most useful single line on the sheet.
Why pre-printing a stack matters
A planner only helps if you actually use it. The friction of opening a document, typing in a name, and saving it as a new file is enough that most tutors abandon planning altogether and improvise. Pre-print a stack of fifteen of these, keep them by the music stand. Grab one, write the student’s name at the top, you’re planning. The whole exercise takes two minutes.
Built for paper, designed for digital
The PDF is the default download because most working tutors print. The SVG alternate is for the smaller group who want to edit it — add a studio logo, change the accent colour, swap a section header. The file is plain vector geometry, so it opens cleanly in Figma, Inkscape, Affinity Designer, Illustrator, or any modern SVG editor. Both versions are A4 portrait at 100% scale; the SVG also scales up if you want a wall-print version for a teaching room.