The objectives of this phase are to:

- Analyse the role and opportunities for guitar teachers in the wider cultural and professional context.

- Explore the advances in the field of psychology and cognitive neuroscience which inform contemporary music education. 

- Examine teaching strategies and approaches that emerge in modern educational debate and thinking.

- Review and recognise the main music teaching methodologies and interrogate comparative and ethnomusicological principles.

- Investigate the relationship between the physiology of instrumental playing and health-related issues.

- Discuss the business procedures and ethical conduct that surround the professions.