MUSC 2020 - Beginning Group Guitar

Credits: 2
Hours/Week: Lecture 2Lab None
Course Description: Group instruction for students with little or no previous guitar instruction. Basic skills in chords, strumming, finger picking, harmony/theory, improvisation, music reading and guitar technique. Practice outside class is necessary for completion of this course. Students must provide their own guitar. Offered F, S. Restriction: Students already proficient in the areas listed in the course description should register for individual instruction.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content

Students learn basic twelve-bar blues and pentatonic scale as an introduction to improvisation.
Students learn chord progressions to simple songs in several keys, which allows students to understand chord diagrams, basic harmonic analysis, and transposition, as well as to practice left hand technique and strumming.
Students practice finger picking solos, in order to understand guitar tablature and how to use proper right hand technique.
Students practice listening and participate in student performances throughout the course.
Students practice simple melodies in order to read standard musical notation and experience ensemble playing.

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

To develop basic skills in chording/harmony, strumming, finger picking, improvisation, music reading and guitar technique.

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MUSC 2020 - Beginning Group Guitar