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Course Syllabus

MUSC 1556 Private Guitar I

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Music
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 1; Lab: 0
  • Repeatable: Yes.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Corequisites: None
  • Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2019
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2024
  • End Semester: Fall 2024
  • Optimum Class Size: 1
  • Maximum Class Size: 1

Course Description

This course provides students with individual guitar instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive one-hour lessons each week of the semester. The course is repeatable for credit. This course develops a student’s technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedagogical and improvisational skills as well as developing a student’s understanding of the history and repertory of the guitar.

Justification

This course is required for music majors, specializing in guitar.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will demonstrate a basic understanding of strumming patterns.
  2. Students will demonstrate a basic knowledge of finger picking technique.
  3. Students will understand basic theoretical concepts as they relate to the guitar fingerboard.
  4. Students will demonstrate mastery of basic chord voiceings and shapes, including barre chords.
  5. Students will demonstrate an ability to play major and minor scales and modes.

Course Content

1. Basic Fingerboard Theory.2. Pick and Fingerpicking Technique3. Chord Voiceings and Shapes4. Major and Minor Scales and Modes5. Genres and Styles