Beginning Guitar for Kids
If you are between the ages of 8 and 11 and you have little or no music experience, this class introduces you to both playing the guitar and reading music. You start with easy-format chords, single notes in the first position, and simple melodies and songs. By the end of the year, you are playing blues and rock tunes in a class band and even writing your own songs.
Instructor: Kurt Huget
Wednesdays at 3:15
Maximum Enrollment: 6
Price per session: $288
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Book/CD by Travis John Andrews & Ruth Parry
Class topics for the current session
- Warm-ups and finger pattern exercises
- Note reading in first position, continued
- Rhythms: eighth-note triplets
- Chords: min7 and maj7 chords
- Strumming: alternating root and fifth
- Palm muting
- Shifting from first to fifth position
- C major and A minor scales
- Minor pentatonic scale
- Basic improvisation
- Performing for others
- Rock songs
Class topics for the next session
- Warm-ups: the diagonal
- Reading in fifth position
- Rhythms: sixteenth notes
- Chords: barre
- Strumming: arpeggios
- Minor pentatonic scales
- Rock riffs
- Improvisation
- Basic songwriting
- Playing in a band
- Blues rock songs
View details for other upcoming sessions
Summer 2012 - 06/18/2012 to 09/02/2012
View details for past sessions
Fall 2011 - 09/05/2011 to 12/04/2011
Winter 2011 - 12/05/2011 to 03/18/2012
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