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Course Syllabus

MUSC 3556 Private Guitar III

  • Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
  • Department: Music
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 1; Lab: 0
  • Repeatable: Yes.
  • Prerequisites: Successful completion of the 2000 level jury
  • Semesters Offered:
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2025
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Fall 2029
  • End Semester: Fall 2030
  • Optimum Class Size:
  • Maximum Class Size:

Course Description

This course provides students with individual guitar instruction. Private instruction is required of music majors each semester during college. Music majors receive 12 50-minute lessons each week of the semester. This course develops and improves a student's technical, interpretive, improvisational, pedagogical, and sight reading skills as well as developing a student's understanding of the history and repertory of the specific instrument/voice. The course promotes synthesis of various types of musical knowledge. A jury is required at the end of the semester. Students must successfully pass the jury at the end of their second semester of 2000 level private instruction in order to register for 3000 level private instruction. An additional fee is required. This course is repeatable for credit.

Justification

As an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), Snow College is required to provide competent private instruction for music majors in all vocal and instrumental specialties. Private instruction is required of music majors in four-year music degree programs and must appear on student transcripts. Courses of this type are taught at all NASM accredited institutions in Utah.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will demonstrate technique acceptable for third year study.
  2. Students will demonstrate an understanding of fingerboard theory acceptable for third year study.
  3. Students will demonstrate an ability to construct four note chord voicings of extended harmonic structures at all positions on the neck.
  4. Students will demonstrate an ability to read from sight both melodically and harmonically from jazz standards.
  5. Students will demonstrate authentic performances in rock, country, rhythm and blues, folk, and jazz styles.
  6. Students will demonstrate an ability to create characteristic guitar tones.

Course Content

Content may be drawn from the following knowledge and skill building areas:
1. Technique
2. Fingerboard Theory
3. Harmonic Voicings
4. Sight Reading
5. Stylistic Accuracy
6. Technology Related to Guitar Tone