 NEW: TEACHING CLASSROOM GUITAR
Text Book & Desk Reference -
262 pages
"The first comprehensive teaching manual for guitar, Teaching Classroom Guitar will help you engage your students with relevant content. Designed to get the most out of your chosen method book, it can easily serve as a college textbook or as a desk reference for teachers at all levels. Written by a master classical guitarist with fifteen years of classroom guitar teaching experience, the book provides outlines for daily, weekly, and semester planning. An outgrowth of Steve Eckels's summer seminars for teachers, the book covers it all - from planning, assessment, and music reading to chords and music theory, jazz harmony and improvisation, remedial techniques, and more. Reproducible templates for assessment, grid and staff paper, and worksheets make it easy to implement the instructional strategies. The extensive listing of popular songs by grade level make choosing repertoire easy. Discover the excitement of teaching this popular and motivating instrument."
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GUITAR ESSENTIALS
Level One, Two, Three and Four
(Weekly Proficiency Skills for Classroom Guitar Instructors)
Steve Eckels' custom teaching materials (in the author's handwritten
notation) are available for your use for a one time fee of $75.00 plus
shipping.
The fee entitles you to reproduce the materials for use in a single classroom
for as many years as you wish.
Shipping is $5.00 per total order. (So in other words, to order all 7
volumes, the total would be $525.00 plus $5.00 shipping.)
Guitar Essentials Level One
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Covers the fundamentals of guitar in a way that is sequentially planned
for classroom guitar purposes (18 Weeks of skills and seven additional
skills for accelerated students).
Skills covered include: Understanding the Neck, The Seventeen Natural
Notes, Chord Progressions with Accompaniment and Rhythm Figures, Power
Chords, Barre Chords, The 1-3-5-3 Arpeggio/Bass Line, Pentatonic Scale
Study, Improvisation using "Riffs", Hammering On, Chord Reference
Chart based on "Relative Fingerings" and A Sing Along Song List.
Guitar Essentials Level Two
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Covers the fundamentals of guitar in a way that is sequentially planned
for classroom guitar purposes (18 Weeks of skills and four additional
skills for accelerated students).
Skills include: Notes on all Six Strings, Pentatonic Scale Review, Capo
Use, Contemporary Moveable Chords, Triads, Diatonic Chord Progressions
using "Slash" Chords, Intervals and Chord Formulas, Bass Runs,
Banjo Style Frailing, Travis Picking, Slur Patterns, Major Scales in all
12 Keys.
Guitar Essentials Level Three
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Covers the fundamentals of guitar in a way that is sequentially planned
for classroom guitar purposes (18 Weeks of skills and four additional
skills for accelerated students).
Skills include: Advanced Slur Study, Sixteenth Note Rhythms, Intervals,
Natural Notes Using Three Notes Per String, Contemporary Harmony Using
Major and Minor Blues, Triads, Moveable Chord Forms Based on the Fifth
String.
Guitar Essentials Level Four
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form
Covers the fundamentals of guitar in a way that is sequentially planned
for classroom guitar purposes (18 Weeks of skills and four additional
skills for accelerated students).
Skills include: Chromatic Octaves, Interval Study in Second Position,
Moveable Chords Based on the Sixth String, Arranging for Solo Guitar,
Modes, Improvisation Using Riffs and Triplets, Natural Notes in the Fifth
Position, and Playing in Two Parts. |
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GUITAR ENSEMBLES
Volume One, Two and Three. Features:
Beginning and Intermediate Level.
May be used as Duets, Trios or Quartets.
Formatted on One Page.
Reading "Warm Ups" Review Knowledge of Staff and Rhythmic Figures.
"Jam Sessions" Provide Reading Warm Up plus Background For Improvisation.
Chordal Accompaniment Suggestions Provided.
Historical Sources Provided.
Holiday Songs.
Three Separate parts provide practice with Treble, Middle and Bass Range.
Repertoire Selection of Outstanding Beauty.
Rehearsal Suggestions Provided.
Guitar Ensembles Volume One
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Warm Ups and Jam Sessions
1. Blues Jam in E
2. Blues Jam in G
3. Blues Jam in D & C
4. My Cat Toby Jam in A minor
5. Pachelbel Canon
Traditional
Music
6. Amazing Grace
7. Ash Grove
8. Aura Lee
9. Celtic Melody
10. Danny Boy
11. Down by the Sally Gardens
12. Flow Gently Sweet Afton
13. Hymn Tune
14. House of the Rising Sun
15. Hymn Tune
16. Scarborough Fair
17. Shenandoah
18. The Cruel War
19. The Water is Wide
Reggae Jam
Sessions
20. Sea Shanty
21. Shady Grove
22. Waters of Babylon
Guitar Ensembles Volume Two
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Classical Selections
1. Gavotte, Bach
2. Bianco Fiore, Renaissance
3. O Solo Mio
4. Little Waltz, Carcassi
5. Bouree, De Visee
6. Minuet in D - De Visee
7. Minuetto, De Visee
8. Preludio, De Visee
9. Greensleeves
10. Kemp's Jig
11. Minuet, Purcell
12. O Mio Babbino Caro, Puccini
13. Song of Joy, Beethoven
14. Siciliano Christmas
15. Away in a Manger
16. Carol of the Bells
17. God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
18. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
19. Jingle Bells
20. O Little Town of Bethlehem
21. Silent Night
NEW: Guitar Ensembles Volume Three
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This new teaching resource includes 25 pages of reading warm ups used in Steve Eckels' Guitar classroom. Warm ups include exercises two parts, three part chorales, blues riffs, line reading exercises, rhythm figures and more. The 18 pages of ensembles feature popular songs, five of which are two pages in length, and eight of which are one page in length.
Two Page Each:
Ashokenan Farewell
Colors of the Wind
Freebird
House of the Rising Sun
'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime
One Page Each:
Amerindian Song (Eckels)
Dove Song (Eckels)
Gilligan's Island
Indian Melody (Eckels)
I Walk the Line
Let it Be
The Rose
Time in a Bottle
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