A beginning guitar course, meant for individual or small-group lessons with an experienced instructor. After completing this course, the student should be ready to begin serious study in any guitar style.
This module demonstrates how we use Matlab to determine if a guitar player is playing single notes or chords.
No matter what style of music the beginning guitarist wishes to play eventually, a good home practice session will include practice reading standard notation and tablature as well as practice strumming and picking chords.
In this class, students learn about physics principles by examining the physics responsible for producing music with electronic stringed instruments, while building, testing, and playing their own electric guitar. Students will design their own Guitar bodies, construct their own pick-ups, assemble their own guitars, tune them using a chromatic tuner, and use them to play a simple song. While the instructions here give enough detail that an independent learner could construct their own guitar, please note that this activity should only be attempted with proper adult supervision, whether at home or at school.
An introduction to a project on guitar distortion.
Introduces major keys and scales and high notes on the E string.
Introduces barre chords, compound meters, and the concept of intervals.
Continues Lesson 11's study of barre chords and intervals, and introduces tied notes.
Introduces sixteenth notes and chord name notation for bass notes, and continues study of intervals.
Introduces syncopation in common notation and in strumming, and simplified chord strumming notation on a staff.
Introduces picked chord accompaniments, triplets, and the concept of building chords from triads.
Introduces dotted-eighth-sixteenth figures, continues working on recognizing triads as basis of chords, and works on concept of movable barre chords.
Introduces swing rhythm and the theory behind added-note chords.
Introduces slurs, rhythm notation in tablature, and the concept of harmonic analysis.
Introduces power chords, blues scales, and the circle of fifths.
Introduces the notes of the high E string and the three most common types of notation for the guitar: common notation, tablature, and chord diagrams.
Introduces "D tuning", dynamic and tempo markings, and transposition.
Introduces harmonics and articulation markings.
Introduces the B string and the concepts of measures, bar lines, and time signatures.
Introduces the G string and notes of varying time lengths.
