Functional Guitar I.

Catalog description

This course serves as an introduction to the guitar for music therapy and music education majors. Through group classroom instruction, students will learn guitar skills specifically suited to accompanying themselves and others with the guitar while singing and leading songs. Techniques covered will include left- and right-hand independence, coordination of playing and singing, strumming patterns, right hand finger picking patterns, open position chords, power chords, bar chords, common chord progressions, common scale shapes, ornamentation, and percussive accompaniment techniques. Prerequisite: Admission into a Bachelor of Music degree program.