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Learn to Play the Guitar  with   Guitar for Everyone

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Beginning Guitar Complete

June 19, 2014 by hobbitgp

Students expand their knowledge beginning with the introduction of basic skills including single note play, various strumming patterns as well as numerous open position chord forms. Students journey from reading tablature to standard notation.

Level 2 begins with open position chords and progress to movable power chords. Improvisation is introduced, based on movable pentatonic scales. Reading skills are further developed with eighth notes, syncopated rhythms, key signatures, flats, and standard notation on all six strings. Techniques expand with the introduction of hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides and syncopated strum patterns. Music theory is introduced in an innovative way, utilizing the cycle of 5ths and key related major & minor chords to provide the basis for transposition, song transcription, and composing original chord progressions.

L-1 Course Repertoire includes:
includes 9-duo, trio, and four part ensemble arrangements as well as numerous exercises, musical examples, solo pieces and lead sheets.
L-2 Course Repertoire Includes:
8 new original ensemble pieces in styles ranging from swing, funk, reggae, to klezmer. Ensembles are supplemented with numerous exercises, musical examples, solo pieces and lead sheets.
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What’s Included:

Workbook

Beginning Guitar Student Workbook – L-1 & L-2

Subscription

12-month subscription to the Consonus Online Learning Site with related online course content.

Every exercise, solo, and ensemble piece is presented in its own review and/or practice video, demonstrated by the author and utilizing rhythmic audio backing to develop student timing and ensemble playing skills.

Online content mirrors the Course Lesson Plans and Student Workbook. Non-lesson related videos cover topics such as stringing and care for the guitar.

Instructor development and teaching aids:

Full Lesson Plans

Videos suitable for classroom demonstration and instruction

Supplemental teacher training videos which will help you get  your class started right and progressing with topics including:

  • How to teach a blended learning course;
  • Layered learning techniques for differentiated learning;
  • Ensemble rehearsal techniques and more.

Optional teacher training workshops.

Attend a  CMI summer teacher training workshop taught by Mike Christiansen and CMI staff instructors. You’ll learn the same key concepts and techniques that Mike has developed and taught for over 30 years in his university guitar pedagogy courses.


Sample Ensembles!

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About CMI

Welcome to the Consonus Music Institute and the Guitar For Everyone online guitar lesson site. You’ve come to the best place to learn to play the guitar online. Our roots are in the science of guitar instruction. The courses you’re about to study have been developed by Mike Christiansen – Author of over 40 top method books for company’s such as Mel Bay and Warner Bros. As an educator Mike is the teacher’s teacher founding and directing the nations top guitar pedagogy program for 30 years at Utah State University.

Most online guitar lesson sites offer brief courses, which teach a few stylistic licks and songs, but they’re mostly incomplete at best.

Guitar For Everyone approaches learning differently by presenting a complete course of study covering core guitar and music skills -essential to develop not only as a guitar player, but as a musician.

All material is presented in the correct sequence using step by step video instruction and audio practice tracks. Both group and solo guitar playing are emphasized using minus tracks that allow a self-study learner to be part of the ensemble.

Guitar for Everyone is also the ideal resource for private, group and home-school guitar and ukulele studies.

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