Riley Clendenin started a business giving guitar lessons to beginners as a senior project. They spent over 20 hours promoting and selling their guitar lessons, as well as giving lessons to students. Their goals were not only to teach guitar but also to help students become musicians. Starting the business was challenging, such as finding students and promoting it, but Riley learned a lot about teaching and business. They hope to continue giving guitar lessons as a career.

1. 1550 Owens Store Road
Canton, GA 30115
Date
Judges, Senior Project
Creekview High School
1550 Owens Store Road
Canton, GA 30115
Dear Judges:
My name is Riley Clendenin and I started a business selling guitar lessons to
beginners. This was a challenge for me to promote, and sell my product as well as
stretching my skills in able to teach them to students. I spent up to 20 hours on this
project not included all the guitar lessons I gave. I learned many knew things doing this
project and enjoyed doing it too.
Although I teach guitar, my main goal was not to create guitarists, but musicians.
However, they would have to be my student for a considerable amount of time. For now I
just start them off with 10$ for a 30 minute lesson a week. For my research paper I talked
about some of my biggest inspirations on music and guitar and where most genres of
music came from. Challenges I over came were finding students, promoting my product,
and adapting to my students.
Starting a business always starts of pretty slow. Right now I don’t have a set
location in which I’m teaching, but I plan to pursue selling lessons as a career and
hopefully find a place I can give them at. I learned that it takes much more knowledge to
teach something successfully than it does to learn it.
I had a lot of positive experiences during this project. I learned many new songs
to teach to students, many new affective teaching methods, and it pushed me to becoming
a better guitarist/musician. My senior project has been a positive experience for me all
the way through. I hope you enjoy my presentation!
Sincerely,
Riley Clendenin