Full Description
The first comprehensive teaching manual for guitar, Teaching Classroom Guitar will help you engage your students with relevant content. Designed to get the most out of your chosen method book, it can easily serve as a college textbook or as a desk reference for teachers at all levels. Written by a master classical guitarist with fifteen years of classroom guitar teaching experience, the book provides outlines for daily, weekly, and semester planning. An outgrowth of Steve Eckels's summer seminars for teachers, the book covers it all—from planning, assessment, and music reading to chords and music theory, jazz harmony and improvisation, remedial techniques, and more. Reproducible templates for assessment, grid and staff paper, and worksheets make it easy to implement the instructional strategies. The extensive listing of popular songs by grade level make choosing repertoire easy. Discover the excitement of teaching this popular and motivating instrument.
Contents
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Effective Planning
Chapter 3 Assessment Techniques
Chapter 4 Applying the National Standards for Music Education
Chapter 5 Your Strengths as an Educator
Part 6 Preliminaries
Chapter 7 Preparations
Chapter 8 Quick Start: Your First Week
Chapter 9 Hand and Body Positions: Learning How to Learn
Chapter 10 The Right Hand: Using the Thumb and Pick
Chapter 11 The Left Hand
Chapter 12 Strength and Motion
Chapter 13 Teaching Individual Tuning
Chapter 14 Group-Tuning Techniques
Part 15 Music Reading
Chapter 16 The Natural-Note Scale
Chapter 17 Music Reading
Chapter 18 Ensembles
Part 19 Chords and Accompaniments
Chapter 20 How and Why to Teach Power Chords
Chapter 21 Playing Bass
Chapter 22 Teaching Chords
Chapter 23 Strumming
Chapter 24 Chord Progressions
Chapter 25 Finger Picking
Chapter 26 Teaching Songs
Chapter 27 Teaching Singing and Playing
Chapter 28 Barre Forms and Transposition
Part 29 Intermediate Skills
Chapter 30 Improvisation
Chapter 31 Student Combos
Chapter 32 Teaching Music Theory
Chapter 33 Teaching Jazz Chords
Chapter 34 Teaching Solo and Classical Guitar
Chapter 35 Tablature
Chapter 36 Hammering-On, Pulling-Off, and Two-Handed Tapping Techniques
Chapter 37 Reference Frets and the Entire Fretboard
Part 38 Remedial Techniques
Chapter 39 Remedial and Artistic Uses of the Capo
Chapter 40 The Benefits of Teaching Melodies on One String
Chapter 41 Using Riffs for Educational Purposes
Part 42 The Guitar Room, Guitars, and Independent Study
Chapter 43 Setting Up the Guitar Room and Equipment
Chapter 44 Guitars and Accessories
Chapter 45 Independent Study
