Folk and pop guitar 3C
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Location: Keeley Street
- Course Code: ME618C
- Dates: 20/04/24 - 29/06/24
- Time: 12:00 - 13:30
- Taught: Sat, Daytime
- Duration: 11 sessions (over 11 weeks)
- Location: Keeley Street
- Tutor: David Harrison
Course Code: ME618C
Duration: 11 sessions (over 11 weeks)
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What is the course about?
Enjoy a good general overview of contemporary guitar technique, including finger picking and strumming patterns, scale and melodic playing, and rhythm work.
What will we cover?
Each week a piece will be chosen to highlight a specific area of guitar technique at this level, building a varied repertoire. Musicianship pertaining to the subject is taught, e.g. to help you transpose songs, or improvise.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
- Play in any key
- Work out chords for songs
- Demonstrate an understanding of the way chords interrelate
- Improvise over simple chord progressions
- Provide effective accompaniment, including bassline figures.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
You should be able to play all major and minor chords, have experience of bar chords, and a working knowledge of music theory. Ideally you have completed guitar 3a and 3b.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
You will be taught through group work, playing together,with individual attention where appropriate and some solo presentation. Practice between classes is essential to your progress.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
All music materials will be provided for class and lodged in the Google classroom. Play your own acoustic guitar in class.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
Blues guitar,Jazz guitar, folk and pop guitar advanced.
David Harrison studied at Oxford Brookes university before taking a post-graduate diploma in saxophone performance at Guildhall School of Music & Drama. David has been teaching at City Lit since 1994. In 2004 he wrote a guitar player’s guide for Collins and joined Music Sales in 2005 to update the famous A Tune A Day tutor series, eventually producing over 40 titles as series editor of the relaunched A New Tune A Day books, which has since become the biggest-selling music tutor series worldwide. Since 2010, David has worked freelance writing, editing and producing mainly educational titles, including Abracadabra Beginning Theory (Collins Music); The Complete Ukulele Player (Music Sales) and most recently the Bob Dylan Complete (Hal Leonard), the authorised collection of every Dylan song, together with an extensive introduction covering Dylan’s acoustic guitar technique, his song-writing and Dylan’s place in the American folk music revival. Aside from his guitar and saxophone classes, David runs a course in song writing. a series of talks on the music of The Beatles, and a series on the songs of Bob Dylan’s 1960s albums.
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