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.
Course Content
A. Intermediate guitar repertoire.
B. Intermediate guitar skills (e.g. five scales, moveable chords, strum patterns, finger-style accompaniment, improvisation skills)
C. Intermediate music theory (e.g. scales, chords, and song patterns).
D. Lead and rhythm guitar.
E. Musical interpretation.
F. Elements of guitar timbre
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).
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
Lecture Contact Hours 0
Lab Contact Hours 20
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20
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