Guitar for the Music Educator: Level II

Designed for music educators who have already taken the primer level course, Guitar for the Music Educator Level I, Level II continues to explore accompaniment styles, improvisation, reading music beyond the open and first positions, playing slurs, triad exercises and much more. This course will help teachers break out of their routines and integrate new instructional strategies with tools that will help inspire a lifetime of music in the lives of their students.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Play all major and minor triads in at least three positions on the neck.
• Read music notation in multiple positions including open, 3rd, 5th and 10th.
• Play barre chords.
• Play 7th and 9th chords.
• Integrate slurs in melodic interpretations and improvisations.
• Play strumming patterns that include 1/16 note subdivisions and staccato variations in the funk and rock idioms.