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    Beginner Rhythm Guitar Course Level 1

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    This 4-week beginner rhythm guitar course teaches students 16 open position chords, basic strumming and rhythm techniques, and how to play rhythm guitar to folk songs. The course costs $50 and meets for 1 hour weekly. Students will learn open major, minor, and dominant 7th chords, counting in different time signatures, and playing with increasing tempo. The goal is to give complete beginners or those needing a review the fundamental skills for playing rhythm guitar.

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    This 4-week beginner rhythm guitar course teaches students 16 open position chords, basic strumming and rhythm techniques, and how to play rhythm guitar to folk songs. The course costs $50 and meets for 1 hour weekly. Students will learn open major, minor, and dominant 7th chords, counting in different time signatures, and playing with increasing tempo. The goal is to give complete beginners or those needing a review the fundamental skills for playing rhythm guitar.

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    This 4-week beginner rhythm guitar course teaches students 16 open position chords, basic strumming and rhythm techniques, and how to play rhythm guitar to folk songs. The course costs $50 and meets for 1 hour weekly. Students will learn open major, minor, and dominant 7th chords, counting in different time signatures, and playing with increasing tempo. The goal is to give complete beginners or those needing a review the fundamental skills for playing rhythm guitar.

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    Beginner Rhythm Guitar Course Level 1

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    montycraig1
    This 4-week beginner rhythm guitar course teaches students 16 open position chords, basic strumming and rhythm techniques, and how to play rhythm guitar to folk songs. The course costs $50 and meets for 1 hour weekly. Students will learn open major, minor, and dominant 7th chords, counting in different time signatures, and playing with increasing tempo. The goal is to give complete beginners or those needing a review the fundamental skills for playing rhythm guitar.

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    Beginner Rhythm Guitar Course – Level 1

    Instructor: Professor Monty Craig


    Who should take this class?
    This class can be taken by complete beginners by itself or as an addition to private guitar lessons. This
    class is also for anyone who has played guitar and wants a complete review of open chords and basic
    rhythms.

    Goals of Class:
    1) Learn 16 basic open position chords
    2) Basic strumming and rhythm
    3) Learn to play in time
    4) Learn to play rhythm guitar to basic folks songs

    Ages: 10 to adult
    Cost: $50 for 4 weekly classes
    Class Duration: 1 hour

    Required materials:
    Guitar – Electric or acoustic
    Beginner Rhythm Guitar Course Book – Level 1 - $10 download from link given:
    Guitar Picks
    Guitar Strap
    3 ring notebook for downloadable book
    Metronome

    Recommended Extra Materials:


    Chromatic Tuner
    Music Stand – solid black style
    Guitar Stand
    Guitar Capo

    Week 1 – Materials covered:

    1) Name of the 6 open strings


    2) Name of the left hand fingers
    3) How to hold a pick and how to make a downward strum
    4) Understanding frets and fretting chords
    5) How to read chord girds
    6) Open position major chords: E, A, D, G, and C
    7) Using the metronome BPM 40
    8) Counting in 4/4 time
    Monty Craig Music Productions
    www.montycraig.com
    monty@montycraig.com
    (864)349-6500
    Beginner Rhythm Guitar Course – Level 1
    Instructor: Professor Monty Craig
    9) Basic strumming between the 5 major chords
    10) Rhythmic musicality

    Week 2 – Materials covered:

    1) Review of Week 1
    2) Open position minor chords: Em, Am, Dm, Gm, and Cm
    3) Basic strumming between all major and minor chords
    4) Increasing speed of chord changes - BPM 40 to 60
    5) Basic rhythms – whole notes and whole rests, half notes and half rests, quarter notes and
    quarter rests

    Week 3 – Materials covered:

    1) Review of previous classes


    2) Open position dominant 7th chords: E7, A7, D7, G7, C7, and B7
    3) Basic strumming between all 16 chords
    4) Increasing speed of chord changes: BPM 60 to 80
    5) Counting in ¾ time and 6/8 time
    6) Basic Rhythm – dotted half note
    7) Basic music theory: I, IV, V and V7 chord progressions in the keys of E, A, D, G
    8) Strumming the chords to basic folk songs:
     Amazing Grace
     America
     America The Beautiful
     Aura Lee
     Blue Danube Waltz and Du Du
     Bury Me Beneath The Willow
     Can Can
     Come To Sea
     Dixie
     Flow Gently, Sweet Afton
     Green Grow The Lilacs
     Greensleeves
     Gypsy Dance
     Hatikvoh

    Monty Craig Music Productions


    www.montycraig.com
    monty@montycraig.com
    (864)349-6500
    Beginner Rhythm Guitar Course – Level 1
    Instructor: Professor Monty Craig

     Home On The Range


     I’ve Been Working On The Railroad
     Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier
     Lonesome Valley
     My Horses Ain’t Hungry
     Oh Mary Don’t You Weep
     Oh Susanna
     Peace Like A River
     Poor Boy
     Red River Valley
     Santa Lucia
     Swing Low Sweet Chariot
     The Birds Return
     The St. James Infirmary
     The Wabash Cannonball
     The Yellow Rose Of Texas
     This Land Is Your Land
     What Wondrous Love
     When The Saints Go Marching In
     Wildwood Flower
     Worried Man Blues

    Week 4 – Materials Covered:

    1) Review of previous classes


    2) Continue strumming the chords to the folk songs
    3) Increasing speed of chord changes: BPM 80 to 100
    4) Final Review

    Monty Craig Music Productions


    www.montycraig.com
    monty@montycraig.com
    (864)349-6500

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