BEGINNING GUITAR BUNDLE for Middle and High School Music Classes

This Bundle contains everything you need to teach a beginning guitar class to middle or high school students. Topics covered in this curriculum include chords, tuning, strumming, fingerpicking, and reading tablature. Get your students playing in no time!

Each lesson includes a PowerPoint presentation with all pertinent information, tips, and songs, as well as PDF handouts, projects, assessments, and more!

External song links are included, but icons are editable. So you can link your own MP3 copies of the songs if you prefer to avoid ads.

Also included is a suggested course outline for incorporating the supplemental materials into the larger beginning guitar unit.

What you will need to provide:

♦️  Guitars

♦️  Capos

♦️  Tuners or tuning apps

♦️  A projector for presentations

♦️  A stereo to play along with the linked songs

CONCEPTS COVERED IN THIS BUNDLE:

BEGINNING GUITAR for Middle and High School Music Classes

♦️ The Parts of the Guitar

♦️ Holding the Guitar and Pick

♦️ Reading a Chord Chart

♦️ Common Chords for Beginners

♦️ Playing Chord Progressions 

READING TABLATURE for Beginning Guitar Classes

♦️  What is tablature?

♦️  Reading tablature

♦️  Finding tablature online

♦️  Performing beginning song written with tablature

GUITAR TUNING for beginning guitar classes

♦️  What does it mean to be "in tune?"

♦️  What do you need to know to tune your guitar?

♦️  Various methods of tuning

♦️  Relative tuning on the guitar

♦️  Tips for successful tuning

STRUMMING PATTERNS for Beginning Guitar Classes

♦️  Tips for strumming on the guitar

♦️  Common strumming patterns

♦️  Playing along with recordings using various strumming patterns

FINGERPICKING for Beginning Guitar Classes
♦️  What is fingerpicking?

♦️  Specific fingers used for picking and their names

♦️  Common picking patterns

♦️  Performing picking patterns on familiar chords

TYPES OF GUITARS: a Unit for Beginning Guitar Classes

♦️  Basic Styles of Guitars and what sets them apart from each other

♦️  Acoustic, Electric-Acoustic, Semi-Acoustic, Resonator and Bass Guitars

♦️ Includes link to demo videos of each style of guitar.

This bundle does not currently include a unit on reading music notation, and I intend to create one shortly.

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