Are you a kick-ass guitar player? Are you an experienced guitar teacher?
Do you love Ultimate Guitar? Do you want to get paid to do what you love? If so, read on!
Editor: Guitar Lessons
Ultimate Guitar is looking for experienced guitar teachers to author lesson plans for the company's guitar instructional products. Applicants must have substantial knowledge of guitar techniques, music theory and song transcription.
Editors will be responsible for authoring video lessons according to the company's defined standards and formats. You will be responsible for writing the script/copy for on-camera talent, printable lesson descriptions as well as transposing musical notation/tablature. In addition to being an experienced guitarist, you must be a writing superstar with superior writing and editing abilities.
This position is not located in a traditional office environment and requires someone who is an independent worker and self-motivated. This is a part-time position with flexible work hours.
Required Experience
Advanced-intermediate to advanced guitar-playing abilities Substantial knowledge of guitar techniques and music theory Ability to transcribe music by ear into guitar tablature Superior writing and communication skills.
Desired Experience
Masters degree in Music and/or Music Education
Published Author or on-camera teacher of guitar instructional product
Guitar-teaching experience
Ability to transcribe music by ear into standard musical notation
Editor-in-Chief: Guitar Lessons
Ultimate Guitar is looking for an experienced guitar teacher to design and author lesson plans for the company's guitar instructional products. The selected teacher must have substantial knowledge of guitar techniques, music theory, song transcription, lesson plan development and demonstrable experience in teaching beginning to intermediate guitar players.
The successful candidate will be responsible for defining and implementing the standards used to create company's video lessons, including general lesson structure, on-camera instructor's script, printable lesson instruction and musical notation/tablature. The Editor-in-Chief: Guitar Lessons will also be responsible for writing the guidebook that will be used as an outline for other guitar teachers as well as reviewing and editing instructional product created by other teachers to ensure that submitted product is in line with published standards. Accordingly, superior writing and editing abilities are a must.
This position is not located in a traditional office environment and requires someone who is an independent worker and self-motivated. It will start out as a part-time position with flexible work hours.
Passion for guitar and teaching others is a must.
Required Experience
8+ Years of guitar-playing experience
4+ Years teaching beginning to intermediate players
Substantial experience in lesson plan development
Knowledge of guitar techniques and music theory
Superior writing and communication skills
Desired Experience
Masters degree in Music and/or Music Education
Published Author or on-camera teacher of guitar instructional product
Management of editorial staff
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How To Apply
Please send the following information for consideration:
01. Cover letter explaining your experience
02. Resume/CV
If sent electronically, please send information to: jobs [at] ultimate-guitar [dot] com
If sending hard copies, please send to:
Ultimate Guitar USA
ATTN: Editor-in-Chief: Guitar Lessons
268 Bush Street, #3044
San Francisco, CA 94104
