Guitar Class 1 Syllabus

Syllabus

Week 1.

Introduction. Course Materials Handout (Apps-Practice Tools-Guitars) Posture, Technique (Right and Left Hand) Picking 8th notes with Down, Up, Alternate Picking. Chromatic Scale on 1 string with correct posture. Open Position C scale.

Week 2.

Read pg. 1-12. First Chords: C - G7 & D - A (D6 - A7). Play through Marianne, He's Got the Whole World. In Class: Singing and Playing, Right Hand Strum Patterns (Hand out 32 ukulele strum). Solo Performance: C Scale Open Position

Week 3.

Practice/Learn (Chords & Rhythm) Saints & Amazing Grace or Adding G (Full and Simple), the IV Chord with strum rest exercise. In Class: Faster Chord Switching, 1 Octave Scale and LEGATO playing. Performance: Double stroke C scale. Sing and play - Whole World in His Hands.

Week 4.

Read 14-17. Practice Our Land with Basic strum. Pg. 52 - Bass Notes. Root and 5th. Folk Strum Pattern (D DU UD) Solo Performance: Saints or Amazing Grace.

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Week 5. EXAM 1.

C major scale ﬁrst position. ( Grade on memorization, posture, legato, tone) Sing and Play: Saints or Amazing Grace. Key of D or G.

In Class: Read 18-20. Slap Strum (Guantanamera) pg. 19. Basic Theory (I IV V). 12 Bar Blues. Brown Eyed Girl

Week 6.

Read 21-25. Discussion of Swing/Shufﬂe (Triplet based) time feel. Solo Performance: Shufﬂe in A pg.31 Brown Eyed Girl

Week 7.

EXAM REVIEW Assignment: Read pg. 26-32. Power Chords. Solo Performance: Brown Eyed Girl, Some Blues (Kansas City etc…)

Week 8. EXAM 2.

1.) Play Sing Brown Eyed Girl - Slap Strum in G. 2.) Play Sing Shufﬂe in A (Kansas City)

Assignment: Chords (C, F, A Minor, E) Read pg. 62-65 - Beginning Reading - Tuning Methods Finger Picking (I-M) Scales.

Week 9.

Assignment: Read pg. 44-47 also pg. 86 (P-I-M-A) Arpeggios. Claw. Come Away With Me, F chord. Solo Performance: Chelsea pg. 68 - Easy Rock pg. 70

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Week 10.

In Class: Arpeggios ( You Are My Sunshine, Amazing Grace) Transposing. G Major Scale

Week 11.

In Class: Banjo Roll. Banjo Roll version of You Are My Sunshine. Sequence with scales (3 Note with quarter rest) Solo performance: G Major Scale

Week 12. EXAM 3.

1.) G Major Scale (Memorized, Legato, Tone, Technique)

2.) Folk Song pg. 78

Week 13.

Exam Review. Demonstrate Tuning Methods. Play You Are My Sunshine in 5 keys.

Week 14. *FINAL EXAM

11.) You Are My Sunshine - Sing and Play in 5 keys.

2.) Accompaniment Patterns: Folk Strum, Arpeggio, Banjo Roll, Country Strum, Slap Strum.

3.) Demonstrate Guitar Tuning ( Fretted singing, Harmonic, Chord Check)