Artistic Guitar 5

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Artistic Guitar

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• Creative Guitar 4
• Artistic Guitar 5
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Artistic Guitar 5

The student upon completion will be able to:

Reading

• Sight read in positions: 7, 8 and 9.
• Read rhythms and melody from Paul Hindemith: pages 30 to 45.
• Perform Berklee Modern Method for Guitar Volume 2: pages 1- 50.

Composition

• Using number notations compose two 32 bar modal compositions.

Transcription

• Transcribe and memorise a 32 bar improvisation.

Arpeggios

• Play all diminished and augmented 7^th in two octaves .

Scales

• Play all major scales in all keys with patterns: 6, 7, 8.

Chords

• Drop 3 chords all inversions, major , minor, diminished , augmented.

Solo piece

• Play solo guitar piece of their choice.

Ensemble Work

• Perform two songs to choose from the following styles: Jazz, Rock, Blues, Folk, Latin Flamenco (developing melody and accompaniment).

Improvisation

• Create variations of melody, augmenting and shortening time span.
• Play the melody with more than one note a a time with:
  • Three note voicings for vertical harmonisation.
  • Triads or upper structure triads on selected targeted areas.
• Talk about the chords as a soloist and not as the accompaniment with:
  • Ostinatos
  • Motif soloing, multi motif soloing, motif development variation, extension, fragmentation.
  • Play rest approach.
  • Rhythmic displacement , augmentation and diminution.

Accompaniment

• Play chords in a manner where we help define the groove and enhance the rhythmic harmonic variety and excitement, with triads of opposite harmonic function to create movement.
• Define chords and groove with melodic lines as:

• • • Guide tone lines.
    • Low register melodic lines: ascending or descending lines.
    • Thinking of the whole background as one new melody line with motifs.