Objective:  Each student will acquire the technical and music reading skills  that will allow them to learn and play classical guitar music that they love!

 

Instructions Book: The Aaron Shearer Method

                                  Andres Segovia: Diatonic Scales

 

 

Sample Lesson:

Lesson Five with a beginner Classical Guitar student:

 

The teacher will reenforce:

 

Physical positioning:

 

1) elevating left leg by means of

using a footstool  

 

2) learning names of the right and left hand fingers.(P,I,M,A,1,2,3,4)

 

3) applying the correct positioning for the right and left hands.

 

4)right hand rest stroke and free stroke: positioning, attack techniques, movement of right hand.

 

5)Maintaining nails: obtaining diamond file and grade 500-2000 sandpaper, review of filing technique

 

6)left hand finger placement, positioning of the thumb,position of hand in moving the hand to a new position

 

7)right hand thumb technique: free stroke, attack technique

 

 

Music Literacy: (utilizing the Kodaly Method)

 

 the student will:

 visualize and recite the following key musical terms:

 

• the treble or G clef    

• b) the staff : EGBDF; FACE    

• Basic rhythms quarternotes. half- notes, dotted half’s, eighth notes and whole notes (in addition, the respective rests)

• time signature

• measures or bars

• staff notes and their correlations on the guitar

 

Tuning the guitar

 

The student will become aware of the following resources:

• adjacent string resources

• free available apps

• becoming acquainted with correct utilization of the tuning pegs.

• piano