Course Syllabus

Course: MUSC 1556

Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
Department: Music
Title: Private Guitar I

Semester Approved: Spring 2019
Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2024
End Semester: Fall 2024

Catalog 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.

Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 1; Lab: 0
Repeatable: Yes.


Prerequisites: None

Corequisites: None


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


Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will demonstrate a basic understanding of strumming patterns. Students will demonstrate mastery of this outcome through weekly class participation, playing tests, and juries.

Students will demonstrate a basic knowledge of finger picking technique. Students will demonstrate mastery of this outcome through weekly class participation, playing tests, and juries.

Students will understand basic theoretical concepts as they relate to the guitar fingerboard.  Students will demonstrate mastery of this outcome through weekly class participation, playing tests, and juries.

Students will demonstrate mastery of basic chord voiceings and shapes, including barre chords.  Students will demonstrate mastery of this outcome through weekly class participation, playing tests, and juries.

Students will demonstrate an ability to play major and minor scales and modes.  Students will demonstrate mastery of this outcome through weekly class participation, playing tests, and juries.


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

Key Performance Indicators:
Participation 30 to 40%

Playing Tests 30 to 40%

Jury 30 to 40%


Representative Text and/or Supplies:
Materials as selected by the instructor.


Pedagogy Statement:
This course is delivered via a a combination of direct instruction, coaching, mentoring, and modeling.

Instructional Mediums:
Lecture

Maximum Class Size: 1
Optimum Class Size: 1