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Intermediate Guitar for Adults

Ruth & Travis

Expand your technical and reading skills, gain experience playing with others, and explore new music styles in our year-long intermediate guitar class. Open to adult students with a working knowledge of the guitar.


Instructor: Kurt Huget
Saturdays at 11:30
Maximum Enrollment: 6
Price per session: $360
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The Acoustic Guitar Method: Complete Edition is the text used in this class.

Book/CD by David Hamburger



Class topics for the current session
  • Warm-ups and finger strengthening: the diagonal
  • Chords: major and minor sixth, seventh, and ninth
  • Rhythm: quarter-note triplets
  • Strumming: muting techniques
  • Music theory: the relative minor
  • Fingerstyle basics
  • Major Scales
  • Transposition, continued
  • Improvisation, continued
  • Songwriting, continued
  • Class performances
  • Pop and folk songs

Class topics for the next session
  • Warm-ups and finger strengthening: finger independence
  • Chords: arpeggios and ornaments
  • Rhythm: sixteenth notes
  • Strumming: creating original patterns
  • Music theory: II-V-I
  • Odd Meter
  • Minor Scales
  • Improvisation, continued
  • Songwriting, continued
  • Fingerstyle 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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Featured Events

/ at 4:00 pm

Song Workshop

05/19 at 12:30 pm.

  • Sleepwalk - Santo and Johnny
  • Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Howard/Arlen)
  • Amazing Grace - Trad


Electric Blues Jam

05/20 at 3:00 pm

What songs will you be playing? Our instructor calls the tunes and also takes your requests.

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