Description

Teaching Guitar in a Classroom Setting Has Never Been Simpler. Chords, Rhythms, Guitar Basics and Music Principles to Get Your Students Strumming Their First Songs

Guitar for the Classroom – Instructor’s Edition lets you lead classroom learning of guitar skills and music fundamentals to get students started the right way.

Guitar for the Classroom will develop students’ basic guitar technique while they learn music fundamentals of pitch, time and rhythm. As they progress from learning individual notes to chords and then applying various rhythms to those chords, they will be ready to perform their first songs. A variety of classic holiday and popular songs and forms are included to get students inspired. Your class will learn to play:

• Jingle Bells
• Happy Birthday
• Amazing Grace
• Silent Night
• A Blues Song
• A Rock and Roll Song
• Rock and Roll with Minor Chords

High school, college and homeschool instructors will love this course.

If you have some knowledge of the guitar and music principles, you’ll be ready to lead your class. This Instructor’s Edition contains an entire course, prepared for the classroom. Chapter quizzes test student’s knowledge with questions including true/false, multiple choice, fill-in the blanks and performance.

Great for absolute music beginners or those with some knowledge, your students will gain confidence as they hear their first notes, strum their first chords and complete their first songs. And, with the Seeing Music method, students gain a foundation in music knowledge that lets them later easily progress to their next level. This course focuses on forming basic chords and applying strumming rhythms to them. It does not require knowledge of sight-reading staff paper melodies. Includes a large chord reference section for future song learning.

Learn the proper way to strum, form chords and find different and interesting rhythms.

Any time or age is a great time to begin guitar. This method has been tested with child and adult learners and proven to work. It focuses less on reading from musical staffs and more from traditional chord charts used by so many guitar songbooks.

AUDIO BONUS: 85 audio examples from the book for FREE download. Students can check themselves against the recordings. Go to seeingmusicbooks.com

Learn the fundamentals of music: chords, scales, note names and basic songs.

In Guitar for the Classroom, students will learn:

• How to Read Chord Diagrams
• Note Names Through the First 5 Frets
• Time Signatures
• Note Values (eighth, quarter, half)
• Major and Minor Chords
• Guitar Anatomy and Care
• Barre Chords
• Many Commonly Used Strumming Rhythms
• C Major and G Major Scales
• Traditional, Blues, and Rock and Roll Songs

Complete Chapter Listing:

• Get Ready, Get Set
• How to Use This Book
• Playing Single Notes
• The C Major Scale
• Playing Your First Chords
• Guitar Features and Care
• Playing Barre Chords
• G and C Major
• Learn the Fretboard (Part I)
• The D Major Chord
• New Strumming Patterns
• Learn the Fretboard (Part II)
• Minor Chords
• Play Your First Songs
• Chord and Note Reference

This is the Instructor’s Edition. The Student Edition and Left-Handed Student’s Editions are also available.

Save time preparing coursework and build your student’s skills with this fun, thorough beginner’s course for guitar.

120 pages, 8 ½” by 11” paperback. SeeingMusicBooks.com