Beginner's 2
Advanced Beginners
Requirements:
knowledge of:
knowledge of:
- basic chords in open position
- rhythmic reading
- music notation and TAB
Advanced Beginners Class Outline
Week 1: Review
Week 2: The Blues
Week 3: Scales and improvisation
Week 4: Fingerpicking styles and using a pick
Week 5: Accompaniment styles
Week 6: Barre chords
Week 7: Improvisation
Week 8: putting it all together, preparing for the final concert
Week 1: Review
- Basic chords
- Left and right hand exercises
- Reading notes
- Strumming rhythms
- Tuning the guitar
- Begin classical ensemble piece
Week 2: The Blues
- 12 bar blues form
- Melodic structure (sentence form)
- Review the C major scale
- Scale exercises
Week 3: Scales and improvisation
- The minor pentatonic scale
- The Blues scale
- Improvisation in blues
Week 4: Fingerpicking styles and using a pick
- Basic fingerstyle patterns
- Travis picking
- Using a pick: technique and patterns
Week 5: Accompaniment styles
- Jazz/blues Freddie green comping
- Travis pick variations
- Fingerstyle block chord
- Bossa Nova basic pattern
- The major pentatonic scale
Week 6: Barre chords
- The circle of fifths
- The 4 basic shapes
- CAGED system
Week 7: Improvisation
- Melodic arpeggios: the Dom 7 arpeggio
- Alternating major and minor pentatonics
- Blues phrasing
Week 8: putting it all together, preparing for the final concert