MMED 623 Play Guitar, Teach Guitar & Ukulele

3 credits 42.0 hours
600 level graduate course

This course is designed to illuminate various approaches and techniques of playing and teaching guitar and ukulele.
Guitar concepts learned will include, but not be limited to: Fretboard Basics, playing single-note melodies, basic chord shapes in the open position and in “Barre” form, picking techniques, strumming techniques, and how to strum rhythms in different styles and grooves. Students will learn basic songs with simple chord progressions, including: folk songs, Blues, three-chord rock. From the teaching lens, students will learn how to teach guitar to visual, cerebral, and conceptual learners. Songs studied will include idioms of rock n roll, RnB, folk, Blues, American standards, Reggae, and Latin-flavored guitar.
Additionally, students will explore the basics of playing ukulele, including basic chord shapes and simple melodies. Learn how to transfer guitar techniques to the ukulele, so you can play and teach your favorite songs on both instruments. Students are responsible for bringing a guitar to the course each day that is in quality working order to best facilitate learning. The course fee includes a ukulele that students will receive in class.

This course is not repeatable for credit.