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Course Syllabus

MUSC 1556 Private Guitar I

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Music
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 1; Lab: 0
  • Repeatable: Yes.
  • Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2025
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2029
  • End Semester: Fall 2030
  • Optimum Class Size: 1
  • Maximum Class Size: 1

Course Description

This course provides students with individual guitar instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive one-hour lessons for 12 weeks of the semester. The course is repeatable for credit. This course develops a student’s technical, interpretive, sight reading, pedagogical and improvisational skills as well as developing a student’s understanding of the history and repertory of the guitar. Repeatable for credit.

Justification

As an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), Snow College is required to provide competent private instruction for music majors in all vocal and instrumental specialties. Private instruction is required of music majors in four-year music degree programs and must appear on student transcripts. Courses of this type are taught at all NASM accredited institutions in Utah.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will demonstrate a basic understanding of strumming patterns.
  2. Students will demonstrate a basic knowledge of finger picking technique.
  3. Students will understand and demonstrate basic theoretical concepts as they relate to the guitar fingerboard.
  4. Students will demonstrate mastery of basic chord voicings and shapes, including barre chords.
  5. Students will demonstrate an ability to play major and minor scales and modes.

Course Content

Content for this course may be drawn from the following
1. Basic Fingerboard Theory.
2. Pick and Fingerpicking Technique
3. Chord Voicings and Shapes
4. Major and Minor Scales and Modes
5. Genres and Styles