Steve Eckels, Classical Guitarist

RESOURCES for GUITAR INSTRUCTORS

"A master teacher who truly loves his craft, but more than that, wants to pass on that passion to young people and those that teach them."

TEACHING CLASSROOM GUITAR
Text Book & Desk Reference
262 pages
$49.95 (softcover) plus shipping Order form

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.

"Steve is inspiring; a pedagogical master, well thought out concepts and rationale, always modeled teaching strategies."

GUITAR ESSENTIALS
Levels One, Two, Three and Four
Weekly Proficiency Skills for Classroom Guitar Instructors

Each level 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).

Steve Eckels' custom teaching materials, professionally engraved with Finale notation software, are available for your use for a one time fee of $99.00 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.

For a complete list of contents and other interesting information, visit Steve's Blog: GuitarEssentials.blogspot.com

Guitar Essentials Level One
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Skills 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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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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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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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.

GUITAR ENSEMBLES
Volume One and Two

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