GUITAR CLASS 1 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. 1 GUITAR CLASS 1 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 2 GUITAR CLASS 1 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) 3.