- Loudoun Valley High School
- Year Objectives
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Beginning Guitar
• Guitar Care and Maintenance
• Guitar Posture/Position
• Tuning
• Picking and fingerstyle patterns
• Notes of First Position
• Open position major scales
• Beginning movable scales
• Open position simple and full chords
• Introduction to barre chords and power chords
• Chromatic Scale
• Execution of slurs, ties, articulations, and dynamics
• Beginning improvisation
• Music Theory – note naming, key signatures, time signatures, basic rhythms, symbols and terminology
• Compose melodies, rhythms and chord progressions
• Introduction of Classical and Rock Literature
• Second Position/fifth position pending development
Intermediate Guitar
• Guitar Care and Maintenance
• Guitar Posture/Position
• Tuning
• Advancement of right and left hand technique including picking, free stroke, rest stroke, and arpeggios
• Second, Fifth, Seventh Positions
• Open position one octave major scales
• Open position natural minor scales
• Open position and movable chords
• Movable major, pentatonic minor, and blues scales
• Chromatic Scale
• Beginning improvisation
• Music Theory - Major scales and key signatures, Chords and Triads, Harmonic Progressions
• Compose melodies, rhythms and chord progressions
• Explore music technology resources
• Solo Repertoire
• Ensemble Repertoire
Advanced Guitar
• Guitar Care and Maintenance
• Refinement of Posture/Position
• Refinement of right/left hand technique and tone quality
• Performance of natural and artificial harmonics and effects
• Musical phrasing and stylistic interpretation
• Second, Fifth, Seventh and Ninth Positions
• Open position 2 octave major scales and diatonic chords
• Natural minor scales
• Movable major and minor scales and chords
• Improvisation, the Pentatonic Scale, modes
• Two Octave Chromatic Scale
• Chord voicings
• Performance in mixed and asymmetrical meters
• Music Theory - Major scales and key signatures, Chords and Triads (major, minor, diminished and augmented), Harmonic Progressions
• Compose melodies, rhythms and chord progressions
• Explore music technology resources
• Solo Repertoire
• Ensemble Repertoire
Artist Guitar
• Guitar Care and Maintenance
• Refinement of Posture/Position
• Refinement of right/left hand technique
• Refinement of tone quality through the use of nails
• Refinement of economy of motion
• Refinement of natural and artificial harmonics and effects
• Refinement of advanced articulations such as trills and mordents
• Musical phrasing and stylistic interpretation
• Mastery of the fingerboard
• Closed position 2 octave major scales and diatonic chords
• Natural, harmonic and melodic minor scales
• Movable major and minor scales and chords
• Improvisation, the Pentatonic Scale, modes
• Two Octave Chromatic Scale in sixteenth notes
• Chord voicings
• Perform extended chords
• Performance in advanced mixed and asymmetrical meters
• Octave transposition on sight
• Music Theory - Major scales and key signatures, Chords and Triads (major, minor, diminished and augmented), Harmonic Progressions
• Compose melodies, rhythms and chord progressions
• Explore music technology resources
• Solo Repertoire
• Ensemble Repertoire