Functional guitar skills and repertoire appropriate for use in music therapy practice.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students: Graduate students will have heightened requirements for class leadership and song demonstrations. The final project for graduate students will include a robust presentation on a musical genre studied in class and how it relates to the use of guitar in music therapy practice.
Athena Title
Guitar Skills Music Therapists
Prerequisite
MUSI 4330/6330 or permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will learn advanced functional guitar skills.
Students will have the ability to use advanced right-hand strumming and finger picking techniques.
Students will have the ability to accompany his/her voice and small instrumental ensembles using basic chord changes while adding bass note passages, and other ornamental musical elements.
Students will learn advanced left-hand techniques.
Students will have the ability to use alternate tunings.
Students will have the ability to sightread chord charts and guitar tablature.
Topical Outline
Right-hand, flat-pick, and finger-style techniques
Ear training for chord progressions and transposition
Improvisation
Chordal and melodic embellishments
Rock, folk, country, jazz, pop, R&B, and Latin styles
