Description: “The Level 1 Guitarist – Foundations” is a comprehensive guitar course covering all beginning concepts from both a pick style and finger style approach. The styles of music available for guitarists to learn and play are incredibly diverse. Mastery of the topics in this course will give students the foundation they need to confidently choose and learn the style(s) of guitar music they are passionate about. Students will learn about the instrument itself, proper right and left hand technique, simple chords, basic chords, power chords, melodies with tablature, strumming and picking patterns, basic music theory, transposition, and songs.
The course is designed in modules with a short quiz following many of the units in each module.
The modules are arranged on the following topics:
- Introduction (4 minutes)
- Parts of the Guitar and Purchasing a New Instrument (14 minutes)
- Important Accessories (9 minutes)
- Tuning the Guitar (2 minutes)
- Sitting, Left and Right Hand Positions (25 minutes)
- Tablature (22 minutes)
- Simplified Chords (18 minutes)
- Basic Strum Patterns (19 minutes)
- Basic Chords (59 minutes)
- The F Chord (20 minutes)
- The House of the Rising Sun (5 minutes)
- The Music Alphabet (14 minutes)
- Alternating Bass Patterns (66 minutes)
- Power Chords (22 minutes)
- Travis Picking (40 minutes)
- Chord Progressions in G Major (22 minutes)
- Chord Progressions in C Major (17 minutes)
| Component | Time |
| Total video instruction | 6 hrs 19 mins |
| Practice time (15 mins per module) | 4 hrs 15 mins |
| Quiz time (3 mins each) | 1 hr 30 mins |
| TOTAL expected time for course completion | 12 hours 4 mins |
| CMTE credits | 14 credits |
| Access time for course | 6 months |
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to identify the parts of their guitar, how to take care of it, important accessories, and the aspects of a successful foundation for a lifetime of learning and playing.
- Participants will demonstrate proper right and left hand technique in playing pick and finger style guitar.
- Participants will demonstrate ability in reading tablature, chord diagrams, and basic strum patterns, alternating bass patterns, and fingerpicking patterns.
- Participants will demostrate how to play melodies in tablature, simple chords, basic chords, power chords, quarter and eighth not strum patterns, alternating bass patterns, and travis picking patterns.
- Participants will demonstrate how to play and transpose basic chord progressions in the keys of C and G.
- Participants will demonstrate how to apply the concepts and techniques in this course to actual songs.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites are necessary. This is a course for the beginning guitarist.
Lessons: