| General Guitar - Beginners | |
| Introduction to the guitar, simple chords, accompaniment using simple rhythms, playing simple tunes from standard notation, learning tabulature, basic keys, easy classical pieces, some popular songs. | |
| General Guitar - Intermediate | |
| Simplified versions of 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 | |
| General Guitar - Advanced | |
| 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 | American Guitar Styles including Bluegrass | Folk, Blues and Beyond |
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