2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Jul 04, 2025  
2025-2026 Pierce College Catalog
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MUSC 164 Private Instruction: Percussion (1 credit)



Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities with Performance; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
An individual instruction course advancing student music performance in percussion. No audition required. Course is repeatable for additional credit up to 3 times in the degree.

Course Content
a.) musical literacy (e.g.pitch, rhythm, tempo, articulation, dynamics, phrasing)
b.) conventions of percussion playing technique  (e.g. balance, intonation precision, pitch, tone production, rhythm, tempo, articulation, dynamics, phrasing)
c.) musicality (e.g. timbre, stylistic expression)

Student Outcomes
1. Demonstrate, through performance, improvement in literacy, technique, and musicality

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

Potential Methods
A. Juried Performance 
B. Instructor observation 
C. Instructor feedback 
D. Self-evaluation 
E. Peer review



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