Curriculum Course Guide Beginning Guitar

APPENDIX Q Item: Curriculum Course Guide – Beginning Guitar Dept.: Instruction Background/Historical Context: Holly Shelter Middle School has estab...
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Curriculum Course Guide – Beginning Guitar

Dept.: Instruction Background/Historical Context: Holly Shelter Middle School has established a reputation for maintaining a very successful performing arts department within its five years of existence. The Orchestra program alone has grown from 30 total enrolled students to over 130 since the school’s opening in 2010. One particular challenge the performing arts department has faced is the inability to educate beginning music students in the eighth grade. A beginning guitar class has been suggested from members of the arts team and from the students themselves. Several instruments have been donated to the school to make this idea as a way to serve this part of the population. Recommendation: The Administration and the performing arts department of Holly Shelter Middle School recommends the addition of Beginning Guitar to our middle school curriculum offerings for the 2015 – 2016 school year. Rationale for Recommendation: Beginning instrumental music classes are only available to sixth grade, and in some cases seventh grade, students at Holly Shelter. Beginning instruction in the instrumental arts has not been possible for eighth grade students up to this point. The Beginning Guitar class would make music education, which is now considered a core subject, available for eighth grade students. Class sizes are also increasing at Holly Shelter Middle School. The addition of another music elective would give students more variety to choose from and cut down on the elective department’s class sizes as a whole. Supporting Documentation: Brief Course Description, Standard Course of Study and Syllabus Board Action:

_____ Recommendation Accepted _____ Recommendation Rejected _____ Tabled for Further Study _____ Other

    Beginning Guitar Description  Holly Shelter Middle School      Beginning Guitar (No prerequisite)    Beginning Guitar course is a step‐by‐step, user friendly, interactive approach that is fun, yet  challenging. Students perform music immediately. The Beginning Guitar course is designed to  accommodate each student’s aptitude with different options within a unified set of goals. It  includes reading standard notation, intro to chords and solo pieces using finger style and  classical techniques (plucking with the fingers instead of a pick). The style of the music ranges  from classical to pop.     Materials    The method book “Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1, Second Edition, By Will Schmid and  Greg Koch” can be purchased at Music and Arts, Finkelstein’s, or an online music supplier.    Goals    1. To introduce foundational music skills of reading, rhythm, chord strumming and picking  styles.  2. To develop confidence playing simple solos and group pieces.  3. To provide performance and listening opportunities from both aural and standard  notation traditions.    Beginning Guitar is meant for those that have:    1. Never had any formal training on the guitar reading standard notation  2. Only played with a pick and have had no finger style or classical technique  3. Not played the guitar at all  4. Had no experience on any instrument  5. Had training on other instruments, but not guitar                     

      North Carolina Essential Standards   Eighth Grade Music    Musical Literacy  8.ML.1: Apply the elements of music and musical techniques in order to sing and play  music with accuracy and expression  8.ML.1.1: Use characteristic tone and consistent pitch when performing music alone  and collaboratively, in small and large ensembles, using a variety of music.    8.ML.1.2: Integrate the fundamental techniques (such as posture, playing     position, breath control, fingerings, and bow/stick control) necessary to sing     and/or play an instrument.    8.ML.1.3: Interpret expressive elements, including dynamics, timbre,       blending, accents, attacks, releases, phrasing, and interpretation, while     singing and/or playing a varied repertoire of music with technical accuracy.    8.ML.2: Interpret the sound and symbol systems of music.    8.ML.2.1: Interpret standard musical notation for whole, half, quarter,       eighth, sixteenth, and dotted note and rest durations in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 3/8,     and all breve meter signatures.    8.ML.2.2: Interpret, through instrument and/or voice, standard notation     symbols in two different clefs, using extended staves.    8.ML.2.3: Use standard symbols for pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo,       articulation, and expression to notate musical ideas.    8.ML.3: Create music using a variety of sound and notational sources.    8.ML.3.1: Produce simple rhythmic and melodic improvisations on       pentatonic or blues scales, pentatonic melodies, and/or melodies in major     keys.    8.ML.3.2: Construct short pieces within specified guidelines (e.g., a       particular style, form, instrumentation, compositional technique), using a     variety of traditional and non‐traditional sound, notational, and 21st century     technological sources.    Musical Response  8.MR.1: Understand the interacting elements to respond to music and music  performances.    8.MR.1.1: Interpret the gestures of a conductor when singing or playing an     instrument.  8.MR.1.2: Identify principles of meter, rhythm, tonality, intervals, chords,  and  harmonic progressions using appropriate music terminology in analyses of music.    8.MR.1.2: Evaluate performances, compositions, and musical ideas using a     specified set of criteria (such as tone quality, intonation, blend/balance,     technique, musical effect, interpretation, and diction). 

      Contextual Relevancy  8.CR.1: Understand global, interdisciplinary, and 21st century connections with music    8.CR.1.1: Understand the role of music in North Carolina and the United     States in relation to history and geography.    8.CR.1.2: Understand the relationships between music and concepts from     other areas.    8.CR.1.3: Understand laws regarding the proper access, use, and protection     of music.                                                                       

    Beginning Guitar      Beginning Guitar (One Semester)    Week 1 – Introduction to Guitar class, identify parts of instrument     Week 2 –Begin study of simple rhythms and pitches, begin learning standard notation, tuning        practices    Week 3 –First two strings ‐ Hal Leonard method book    Week 4 – Standard notation and aural learning     Week 5 – Next two strings ‐ Hal Leonard method book    Week 6 – Standard notation and aural learning    Week 7 – Final two strings ‐ Hal Leonard method book    Week 8 – Standard notation and aural learning    Week 9 – Traditional finger plucking versus using a pick    Week 10 – Beginning of chord construction/performance instruction    Week 11 – Reading chords and standard notation using sheet music and TABs    Week 12 – Choosing solo pieces and group pieces for private/classroom study    Week 13 – Solo pieces and group pieces    Week 14 –Solo pieces and group pieces    Week 15 – Presentation of solo pieces and group pieces during winter concert    Week 16 –Learning various genres of music on guitar using aural training