MUSC 125 - Class Guitar Level 1

2 Credits

Group instruction for beginners; correct hand position and fingerings; rudimentary music theory including melodic, harmonic and rhythmic notation.

Course Note Previously MUSIC 125. Recom: Spanish guitar with nylon strings and wide neck and foot stool.
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Designed to Serve Any student with a serious interest in guitar.
Active Date 20220330T15:34:25

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 15
Contact Hours: Lecture 22
Total Contact Hours 22
Degree Distributions:
AA

Humanities Area II
Performance

Course Outline

Tuning, strings, frets, fingers.
Elements of music: melody, harmony & rhythm.
Notes of the open strings on the musical staff.
RH/LH exercises & patterns.
Free strokes and rest strokes.
¾ patterns and simple chord progressions.
Greensleeves.
Open 4th, 5th & 6th strings.
Visualizing notes on the fingerboard.
4/4 time and whole notes.
Notes on the 1st, 2nd & 3rd strings.
Simple scale passages.
Canon in D.
Notes on the 3rd and 4th strings.
Notes on the 5th and 6th strings.
Harmonic intervals.
Individual coaching.

Student Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate basic guitar skills including proper hand coordination with fingerboard positions, techniques, and sight-reading.

Play and harmonize melodies using written notation as well as chord symbols.

Demonstrate the ability to transpose melodies by sight and read in multiple keys.

Correctly play the major and minor scales and identify their key signatures.

Correctly identify melodic and harmonic intervals, triads, and their inversions.

Demonstrate proficiency performing rhythmic patterns and syncopation.

Demonstrate advanced fingering and legato/staccato articulations.

Perform early master literature.

Perform publicly in class recital.