The course is for guitar players who wants to improve their techniques. We will focus on instrumental techniques such as proper posture, right-hand as well as left-hand techniques like picking and left-hand speed, coordination and strumming.
We will get around:
- Right hand technique: picking; finger style, strumming with a basic understanding of rhythmic subdivisions and playing to a metronome.
- Left hand technique: learning scale patterns (major scale, minor scale, pentatonic scales), learning chord positions (major triads minor triads, open chords and four-note seventh chords across the neck of the guitar), speed exercises.
- Fretboard knowledge: training the recognition of the position of the notes on the fretboard through simple exercises.
- Sight reading on guitar: understanding notation in terms of duration, intensity and height of the pitches on the staff to then transfer on the guitar’s fretboard through the reading of simple tailored etudes
- Rhythm practice: understand the different rhythmic subdivisions and being able to execute them on the guitar along with a metronome.
Course Materials: The teacher will give hand-outs to the students each week according to their progress and area of interest. The course and materials will be in English.
Online activities are conducted through the video meeting platform Zoom. You can download and use Zoom for free. Once you have enrolled, you will receive an email containing a short user guide of Zoom including a unique link, which will give you access to your course.
