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General Guitar - Beginners |
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Introduction to the guitar, simple chords,
accompaniment using simple rhythms, playing simple tunes from standard
notation, learning tabulature, basic keys, easy classical pieces, some
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| General Guitar -
Intermediate |
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popular classics, Celtic rhythms 6/9 and 9/8, dropped ‘D’ tuning, Irish
jig - finger style, Blue Grass - flat picking, correct use of phrasing
and attack, Blues - early Delta styles, Rock and Pop, Effects in modern
guitar music |
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| General Guitar - Advanced |
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For those who can already
play. A certain amount of listening and discussion is an integral part
of the course.
Jazz - Django Rheinhart, Charlie Christian and Martin
Taylor, Chord substitutions and improvisations.
Classical - More advanced
pieces from notation and tabulature, all major and minor scales, brief
history of musical development from the middle ages to the present day.
Folk - Rhythmic variations, alternative tunings, use of counterpoint, fingerstyle and plectrum work.
Rock & Pop - Early styles of rock - Chuck
Berry, Eddie Cochrane. Later styles -Shadows, Beatles, Hendrix to Oasis
Blues - Styles of Broonzy and Hurt, later Chicago styles of B.B.King to
Muddy Waters, introduction to slide guitar |
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General Guitar |
Classical Guitar |
British and Celtic Acoustic Guitar
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American Guitar Styles
including Bluegrass |
Folk, Blues and Beyond |
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