MUSC 269:270
FRETBOARD SKILLS
MUSC 269:270 Fretboard Skills
Two hours laboratory (1:1).
Prerequisites: MUSC 268 and permission of instructor for non-guitar performance majors.
Basic skills in harmonization, transposition, position studies and improvisation, will be studied as they specifically apply to the fingerboard.
The purposes of these courses are, in priority order of emphasis is to inculcate competency with regard to the relationship between harmony and its application to the guitar fingerboard. The skills to be covered are as follows:
MUSC 269
1. Rhythmic and metrical melodic reading, in the first through 12th positions of the fingerboard.
2. Visualization skills are applied to sight-reading skills.
3. Dyad identification in each position.
4. Triadic reading and identification in each position.
5. Transposition applied to triad moveable chord families.
6. Improvisation with chord progressions.
MUSC 270
1. Multi-metered and compound rhythmic sight-reading
2. Four-voice harmonic theory as applied to the fingerboard.
3. Transposition applied to four-voice moveable chord families.
4. Visualization skills applied to chord inversions.
5. Intermediate to advanced chord progressions and improvisation.
The course will include both traditional techniques and technology in instruction including: Emphasis on student demonstration and performance. Music department. Music department lab resources will be utilized in drills and review through instructor designed software.
Students will develop proficiency with regard to functional skills necessary to teaching and performering. Students will be able to transpose, a necessary skill for accompanying singers and other instrumentalists. Further, students will be able to improvise; a skill that can be applied to performing and teaching.
Classroom participation, both oral and performance will be assessed daily. Attendance will therefore be considered part of the grade. Student lab work will be evaluate as well.
DATE ACTIONREVIEWED BY
February 2006 Reviewed E. Fellin, Chairman