Mr. Joey Vierra is a guitar teacher at Baldwin High School. He has been teaching in Hawaii's public schools for over 20 years. He is a self taught musician whose passion is recording and producing music. He started his teaching career in 1996 at Paia School.
joey.vierra@k12.hi.us
Band 1
Band 2
Band 3
Band 4
Directed Study in Music: Marching Band
Jazz Band 1,2,3,4
Orchestra 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A
Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4
The Guitar 1 course is designed to help students develop basic guitar performance skills that address the DOE music standard and benchmarks. Students develop basic guitar techniques such as picking and strumming accompaniments to popular music. They may perform in ensembles while integrating a variety of national music standards that include analyzing, singing, listening to, and evaluating music.
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