Meat and Pudding in a Guitar Curriculum Daniel Lee MEd (Adult & Tertiary), BMus (Hons), Grad Dip Ed, Grad Dip Research Introduction Pink Floyd, a Progressive-Rock ensemble from England, released their controversial musical statement about production line education, Another Brick in The Wall in 1979. The closing stanzas feature a school teacher yelling ‘If you don’t eat your meat you can’t have any pudding’ and follows bewilderingly ‘How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?’ This paper examines the roles of metaphorical meat and pudding in a modern contemporary guitar curriculum. In this analogy meat represents pedagogical value and pudding represents aesthetic value. The primary question this paper addresses is; What role does aesthetics perform in determining the pedagogical value of a musical composition? How does one measure the pedagogical value of a piece of music? Bartok found the need to compose piano pieces for his students as he found no musical value in the existing material (Bayley, 2001). He doesn’t specify details about musical value. However, without explaining why, he does make the claim that folk melodies have great musical value. In her thesis on the importance of incorporating contemporary world music in to a curriculum Orduz (2011) makes the following observation; ‘unfortunately much newly produced