Guitar

Guitar

Group Guitar Lessons- starts in June!

Guitar Lessons

Beginning guitar is offered in the summer to students going into 3rd grade and older.

Students may bring either acoustic or electric guitar (bring your own amp).

Introduces the student to basic fundamentals of guitar playing:

correct posture, note reading, aural skills, flat picking, strumming, singing songs, rhythmic patterns,

chord study, finger picking styles, musical forms, and tablature reading.

Please read the Equipment page as well as all the other pages.

Student Guitar Size Chart- important to have the correct size

Height: 5' or taller/ 4/4 size

Height: 4'6" to 4'11"/ 3/4 size

Height: 3'10" to 4'5"/ 1/2 size

Height: 3'3" to 3'9" / 1/4 size

Guitar 1 will cover:

Correct posture: sitting, standing and holding pick

Identify the parts of the guitar

How to tune guitar by pitch matching with CD or tuner

How to change a string and guitar care

Playing with beautiful tone

Rhythm and feeling the beat

G treble staff reading for string 1, 2, 3 single notes in 1st position

Play melodies using strings 1,2,3 in 1st position

Basic notation and theory

Full Chromatic Scale in 1st position up to A

G scale on strings 1,2,3 in 1st position

3 String Chords & how to read chord charts

Symbols indicating up and down strokes

Flat Picking

Basic strumming patterns with proper right hand motion

Beginning chord progression in key of G, C, & D

Switching chords smoothly while strumming

How to read tablature using rock songs

Guitar 2 will cover:

Review of Guitar 1 & building on those skills

Tuning guitar by ear using 5th method

G treble staff reading for string 4,5,6 single notes in 1st position

Play melodies using all 6 strings in 1st position

Power chords using roots on open sixth, fifth and fourth strings

Play arpeggios in a finger-picking style as an accompaniment

Identify and use p-i-m-a

Ear Training

6 String Chords using chord charts

More chord progressions building smooth chord changes

Playing guitar for church