Introduction to Guitar Course Schedule
Quarter 3 2021-2022
Week 1 Jan. 5th - 7th
Quarter 3 2021-2022
Week 1 Jan. 5th - 7th
- Monday and Tuesday no school
- Unit 1A - Guitar Basics
- Posture and hand frame
- Left hand frame
- Left hand frame
- Parts of the guitar
- Tuning
- Tuning by ear
- Relative tuning
- Orchestral tuning
- Tuning by ear
- Warmup
- Going up
- Going up
- Posture and hand frame
- Unit 1A continued
- Left hand technique
- shifting
- shifting
- Right hand technique
- Picking
- Finger picking
- Picking
- Left hand technique
- Unit 1B - Chords, Reading Harmonies, Strumming
- Simple chords G7 and C
- Simple chords G7 and C
- Monday no school
- Unit 1B continued
- 4/4 time
- Reading harmonies over the staff
- Marianne
- Ex. 1-3
- Marianne
- A7 and D/D6
- Tom Dooley, He’s Got the Whole World
- Tom Dooley, He’s Got the Whole World
- G major
- 4/4 time
- Unit 1B continued
- Worried Man Blues, Saints, Amazing Grace
- Worried Man Blues, Saints, Amazing Grace
- Midterm Pass-off #1
- Wednesday parent/teacher conferences 3:30 to 5:30pm
- Unit 1B continued
- Our Land, Surfin
- Strumming from 4th,5th,and 6th strings
- Eighth note strumming, reading
- Our Land, Surfin
- Unit 1C - Syncopation, reading shape notes, muting, and tonality
- Bye Love
- Lesson #9
- 1,4,5 progressions
- Bye Love
- Friday no school
- Unit 1C continued
- Muting
- Palm mute
- Left hand mute
- Palm mute
- Latin strum
- Muting
- Monday no school
- Unit 1C continued
- Repeat measure sign
- Key od D major
- Key signatures
- Key of D major
- Key of G major
- Key of D major
- Lesson 20,21
- Repeat measure sign
- Thursday and Friday no school
- Unit 1C continued
- 1,4,5 in the key of G major
- Concert literature
- 1,4,5 in the key of G major
- Friday no school
- Course review
- Literature concert
- In class - parents welcome
- In class - parents welcome
- Literature concert
- Final Pass off #2