Guitar Level I - Grades 9-12

Performing

  • 1

    Maintain a steady beat.MU.AG.1.1

  • 2

    Demonstrate correct hand and body positions to play guitar.MU.AG.1.2

  • 3

    Show appropriate tuning techniques.MU.AG.1.3

  • 4

    Perform basic strumming and plucking techniques for chords and melodies.MU.AG.1.4

  • 5

    Perform chords in a variety of major and minor keys in I-IV-V progressions.MU.AG.1.5

  • 6

    Perform basic songs, including fingerpicking of melodies and appropriate chordal accompaniment of a melody, in meters of 2, 3, and 4.MU.AG.1.6

Exploring

  • 7

    Read a variety of notation to include chord charts, standard notation, and tablature, in a variety of keys and meters.MU.AG.1.7

  • 8

    Interpret a variety of symbols: repeat signs, multiple endings, D.S. or D.C. al fine, ties, dynamic abbreviations, fermata, and double bar.MU.AG.1.8

  • 9

    Play and sing melodies from a lead sheet while performing chordal accompaniment.MU.AG.1.9

  • 10

    Identify the parts of the guitar.MU.AG.1.10

  • 11

    Listen to and analyze a piece of music using appropriate vocabulary while examining form, dynamics, tempo, range, tonality, modulations, dynamics, and tone.MU.AG.1.11

  • 12

    Evaluate student performances.MU.AG.1.12

Creating

  • 13

    Improvise rhythmic and melodic variations.MU.AG.1.13

  • 14

    Improvise a chordal accompaniment up and down strokes.MU.AG.1.14

Relating

  • 15

    Identify prolific classical guitarists and discuss their technique using appropriate vocabulary.MU.AG.1.15

  • 16

    Research the global origin of the guitar and related instruments.MU.AG.1.16

  • 17

    Research and identify exemplary guitar technique across a variety of styles.MU.AG.1.17

  • 18

    Describe how sound is produced on a string instrument and relate this to the science of acoustics.MU.AG.1.18

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Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, and Grade 12

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