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Assessment: | Acceptable Performance Level |
Participation in classroom activities | 80 or above on demonstrated work |
Participation in Winter Concert
Participation in Spring Concert |
80 or above on report cards at six week intervals |
Content Sequence | Performance
Indicators |
Performance
Level |
Music Notation– review lines/spaces; G Clef | 3C, 3E | 80 or above |
Rhythm notation and Time Signatures & tempo | 1B, 3B | 80 of above |
Instrument positioning and part identification | 3C, 3E | 80 or above |
Tuning technique
Picking technique |
3C | 80 or above |
E, F, G – First string
Sample songs to develop finger technique |
1B, 2A, 2C
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80 or above
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B, C, D – 2nd string
Samples & songs |
1B, 2A
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80 or above
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Tied notes (whole, half & quarter) Sample exercises & songs | 1A, 3A
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80 or above
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Pick-up notes -
“Saints Go Marching In” |
1B,, 2E, 3C, 4A
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80 or above |
G, A 3rd string notes | 3C | 80 or above |
Dotted half note
“Oh Susanna” |
1B, 2B | 80 or above |
3/4 time; Combined strings; Repeat signs | 3B, 3C | 80 or above |
A – fourth finger in 3rd position; ledger lines
“Danny Boy” |
1B, 3C, 3D | 80 or above |
Song Styles: country ballad “Blue Eyes…” | 4A
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80 or above
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D, E, F – 4th string
Sample exercises “Amazing Grace” “House of the Rising Sun” |
1B, 4C, 4D
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80 or above
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Eighth note value
“Surfin’ Safari” |
1B, 1E, 4B
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80 or above
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Sharp sign # - F# in two places “Aura Lee” | 1B, 4A
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80 or above
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Key Signatures:
Key of “G” “Simple Gifts” |
3B, 4B
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80 or above
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C, G & G7 chords –
D & D7 chords |
1C
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80 or above
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12 bar blues progression w/chords
“Chuck B. Goode” |
1A, 1B, 1C, 3F, 4B
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80 or above
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A, B, C – 5th string
Sample exercises “Brahms Lullaby” |
1B, 3B, 4B
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80 or above
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A minor/D minor chords “Roots of Rock” | 2B, 2D, 4C, 4D
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80 or above
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Strumming patterns:
(quarter & eighth note permutations) |
1A, 3C, 3F
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80 or above
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Power Chord Studies
A5, D5, E5 |
1A, 1B, 2B, 2C
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80 or above
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E, F, G – 6th string
“Spanish Serenade” |
1B, 2E, 4A
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80 or above |
Full G, G7 & E minor
Chords -Loch Lomond |
1B, 3C, 4A
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80 or above
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F# - 6th string
“Rock Ballad” |
2A, 2C, 3A | 80 or above |
rs 1E, 2A, 2C, 2E, 2F, 3A, 3E, 3F, 4D | 80 or above |