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Rigor and Relevance: Guitar in the general music classroom.

Rigor and Relevance: Guitar in the general music classroom. davidphendricks.com. @davidphendricks. davidphendricks@gmail.com. Agenda. Class procedures Technique vs Concept Maximizing Learning Cooperative Learning. Answers to FAQ’s. I use picks.

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Rigor and Relevance: Guitar in the general music classroom.

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  1. Rigor and Relevance:Guitar in the general music classroom. davidphendricks.com @davidphendricks davidphendricks@gmail.com

  2. Agenda • Class procedures • Technique vs Concept • Maximizing Learning • Cooperative Learning

  3. Answers to FAQ’s • I use picks. • We all play right handed. (With some exceptions) • I keep the guitars on a rack, not in cases. • I start in third grade. • We play once a week, the other day is general music. (Orff, movement, etc.) • I do more chording than single note playing.

  4. An Unlimited Supply of Picks

  5. Before You Pass Out Guitars…

  6. How to Carry Guitars Two hands on neck, guitar in front.

  7. No Chords Needed.

  8. Things That Will Break Your Guitar Lay it on the floor! I’ve had one fall over, but I’ve never had one stepped on.

  9. More Things That Will Break Your Guitar • Letting your brother/sister/friend play your guitar. • Leaving it in the car on a hot day. • Letting your uncle/brother/friend tune it. • United Airlines.

  10. Technique/Concepts • What is your end goal? • What is your timeline? • How much time to you have per week?

  11. Technology Tricks • Use your webcam to make closeups of your hand. • Use the video out of your camcorder into your LCD projector to get a “players eye view”. • Powerpoint tricks.

  12. Single String Warmup

  13. D6 Em 1 2

  14. Use Your “Rotate Image” Feature

  15. Use Simplified Chords Use only strings 1,2,3,[4] (red fingers and strings) . Place painters tape on strings 4,5,6. Advanced students can use the blue fingers.

  16. 12 Bar Blues - Rhythm/Solo

  17. 12 Bar Blues

  18. 3rd Grade Vocabulary conductor ostinato posture unison timbre crescendo decrescendo pianissimo fortissimo Presto whole note whole rest dotted half note half note half rest measure bar line final barline

  19. What’s Missing? G C G C G C C C C G C G C VB \ \ \ \ | \ \ \ \ | \ \ \ \ \ w w w w w w w w q w w w w QQQ MetDemo and MusiSync Fonts

  20. Try it like this… G C G C G C C C C G C G C VB \ \ \ \ | \ \ \ \ | \ \ \ \ \\ w W w W w W W W W w w w w : MetDemo and MusiSync Fonts

  21. Form: ___________________________________ V=Verse, C=Chorus, B=Bridge, Intro, Coda Circle the dynamic marking: pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff Circle the tempo marking: Largo, Andate, Allegro, Presto Lead Singer: Bass, Tenor, Alto, Soprano Song Analysis Name ________________ Teachers Name ____________________ Song Name/Composer ________________

  22. Cooperative Learning • How to find a partner. • Games with chord cards. • Mini Ensembles.

  23. Card Games • Partner A picks card, partner B plays chord, partner A checks it. • Partner A arranges cards in any order, Partner B plays. • Sit back to back. Partner A arranges and plays. Partner B tries to guess what order cards are placed.

  24. Practice and Play for the Class Ways to take it to the next level: Switch Parts. Both partners play every chord. Add a quarter and eighth note rhythm. A / / / |A / / / | E / / / |E / / / | D / / / |D / / /:||

  25. Useful Resources MIMF – Musical Instrument Makers Forum. They’re really picky about following their posting rules in the forum, but it’s an enormous treasure trove of instrument knowledge. Any sort of stringed instrument, and even percussion and winds. From removing necks to changing tuners, whatever, someone there will know how to do it. Frets.com – run by California luthier Frank Ford, full of pictures of how to fix guitars, banjos, whatever. Very cool tricks, tips, and homemade tools. Guitar Attack – little bit of everything, guitar repair for the novice, repainting, playing tricks and tips, gallery of Saga guitar kits people have built. Guitar Nuts – Great electric guitar wiring site, and how to banish all hum from your guitar, single coils included! Backing Tracks, Tabs, Chords, Lyrics. Guitarbackingtrack.com – Just like it says, song tracks minus guitar, some have vocals some don’t but most are really good, some are just midi’s but most are spot on copies. Ultimate Guitar – One of the biggest tab sites online. How to Videos Three Chord Guitar – Lots of easy guitar lessons by Mojo, Three chord songs and how to play them, licks “in the style of”, simplified licks and songs. Check out his YouTube channel too. He sort of leans to the the Southern Rock/Country genre, but he’s got everything from U2 to Miles Davis. Justin Sandercoe, Justin on YouTube – hailing from Britain, this is one of the best series of YouTube lessons out there. Everything from rock to jazz, chords, scales, solos, techniques, and more. No matter what your level you can probably get something from this. Rock On Good People.  More good videos, some of everything here, much like Justin Sandercoe’s, but with many different instructors.

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