MUS 138 - Group Guitar - Intermediate

MUS 137  or equivalent experience.

Course Description: Enables students to create more complicated common style arrangements to folk, blues, and popular song styles by adding melody notes and bass runs to open chords. Students will also learn accompanying styles to a much broader range of song types, the use of more sophisticated chords and voicings, and the use of barre chords affording the guitarist the ability to play in any key. May be repeated up to six credits.

Course Learning Outcomes:

• CLO#1: Display the ability to accompany a broad range of song styles.
• CLO#2: Create more complicated guitar arrangements by adding bass runs and open chords. (ILO: Critical Thinking)
• CLO#3: Display intermediate music reading skills.