929 Guitar 

 Gr 9 - 12 | 3 Credits |  Semester-Long | 5x per Cycle

Guitar Class is for students with little or no prior musical experience, who are interested in learning to play guitar in a moderately-paced and comfortable environment. Students will learn basic chords and strumming patterns on the guitar. We will gradually add more chords as students progress, including bar chords, as well as common scales used for soloing. Students are encouraged to bring their requests for songs they want to learn; and as we are ready, we will research the chords, rhythms and riffs required to play them.

Essential Skills

The Wellesley Public Schools Performing Arts Program offers a comprehensive program of experiences for all students. Courses offered through the Performing Arts are grounded in the Massachusetts State Arts Framework Essential Skills and Standards; Creating, Performing, Responding, and Connecting. 

Creating:  Imagine. Generate musical ideas for various purposes and contexts.

• Generate musical ideas for various purposes and contexts.

• Describe how sounds and short musical ideas can be used to represent personal experiences, moods,

visual images, and/or storylines.

• Assemble and organize sounds or short musical ideas to create initial expressions of selected experiences,

moods, images, or storylines.

•  Identify and describe the development of sounds or short musical ideas in drafts of music within simple

 forms (such as one-part, cyclical, or binary).

Performing: Present. Share creative musical work that conveys intent, demonstrates craftsmanship, and exhibits originality.

• Share creative musical work that conveys intent, demonstrates craftsmanship, and

exhibits originality.

• Share music through the use of notation, performance, or technology, and demonstrate how the elements

of music have been employed to realize expressive intent.

Responding: Select. Select varied musical works to present based on interest, knowledge, technical skill, and context.

• Select varied musical works to present based on interest, knowledge, technical skill,

and context.

• Identify and select specific excerpts, passages, or sections in musical works that express a personal

experience, mood, visual image, or storyline in simple forms (such as one-part, cyclical, binary).

Connecting: Analyze. Analyze the structure and context of varied musical works and their implications for performance.

• Analyze the structure and context of varied musical works and their implications for performance.

• Analyze how the elements of music (including form) of selected works relate to style and mood, and

explain the implications for rehearsal or performance.