The student pays the normal lesson fees in addition to tuition. Course may be repeated for up to 8 hours credit. A course providing basic instruction in folk and classical techniques on the guitar. Students acquire skills in chord progressions, major scales, strum and pick patterns, note reading, and arpeggio picking. Different styles of music are introduced through class presentations and recordings.
Students perform selections in class.
May be repeated twice for credit. Group instruction in singing for the nonmajor and the music major. Students gain knowledge of the basic concepts of vocal function and singing, including care of the voice, breathing, tone, diction, presentation, interpretation, and exercise practice. Topics include note reading, interpreting meter signatures and the corresponding rhythms found in that meter, developing finger control and hand independence, harmonizing using I, IV, and V chords, sight reading, improvisation, and pedaling technique. Continuation of MUSC 1290.