Beginning+Guitar-Code+905

Course Scope:
 * BEGINNING GUITAR ** ** No Experience Necessary ** ** Varsity 1 ** ** #905- 5 day full year ** ** #903- 3 day full year ** ** #902- 2 day full year ** ** #900- 1 day full year **
 * This one-year course is designed for students with no previous guitar experience. Students may take this class more than one time. **

Students will receive guidance and direction in solving problems related to playing the guitar on a beginning level and will learn many of the different styles, skills and techniques required to become a successful guitarist. Areas of concentration include: correct posture, note reading, aural skills, flat picking, singing songs, rhythmic patterns, chord study, finger picking styles, musical forms, improvisation and performing experiences. This elective course for high school may be repeated for credit.

U2 "Sunday Bloody Sunday" guitar lesson

Course Goals: 1. perform using correct sitting posture and appropriate hand positions 2. play a sixteen measure melody composed with eighth notes at a moderate tempo using alternate picking 3. play on all six strings in first position 4. play melodies in the keys C, Am, G, Em, D, Bm, F and Dm 5. have a tonal range which extends to the A above the staff 6. play major, minor and dominant seventh chords in first position in the keys of C, G, D, A, Am, E, & Em 7. strum rhythms to include whole, half, quarter and eighth notes including simple syncopation 8. play power chords using roots on open sixth, fifth and fourth strings 9. read and understand symbols indicating up and down strokes 10.play arpeggios in a finger-picking style as an accompaniment 11.identify and use p-i-m-a 12.identify and name the parts of the guitar 13.identify basic musical symbols 14.tune the guitar by pitch matching
 * YEAR ONE - ** At the completion of year one, students will be able to:


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