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    May 13, 2024  
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MUSC 127 Intermediate Class Guitar (1 credit)



Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities with Performance; General Transfer Elective
Formerly MUSIC 127

Prerequisite MUSC 126  with at least a 1.5 grade.

Course Description
A performance course designed for the intermediate guitarist. MUSC 126 or the equivalent required. Students must furnish their own guitar.

Student Outcomes
1. Read treble clef notes, tablature, chord graphs, and identify them on the fret-board.
2. Strum and play melodies to intermediate guitar repertoire.
3. Interpret elements of intermediate music theory (e.g., time signatures, chord graphs, strum and picking patterns, dynamics).
4. Perform moveable chord forms with root notes on the fifth and sixth strings.
5. Perform intermediate chord progressions, riffs, and melodies on the guitar.
6. Play five moveable scale positions 1 through 10 at 200 M.M. (e.g., chromatic, major, minor, pentatonic, and blues).
7. Demonstrate intermediate guitar techniques (e.g., hammer on, pull off, tremolo, vibrato, double-time strumming, alternating root to fifth bass lines, bending strings down, down and up picking, slides, harmonics, finger-style).



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