Group Guitar for the Beginner

3 credits · Undergraduate

This undergraduate course is open to non-music majors with no prior training in music or guitar. Students will learn the basic skills to many aspects of the classical/folk guitar that includes chording and picking. Students will experience the solo acoustic guitar format utilizing repertoire from a wide range of genres from North America, South America, and Europe. Students will gain the knowledge of basic theory through performance and learn to play through aural and visual modelling, to read tablature notation, chord and strum, and pick in the proper style of the music studied.