Curriculum

In this page, you will find out more about the different guitar courses we offer. 

Beginner Contemporary Guitar
This course is design to help students who are new to guitar. They will learn the features of guitar, basic music theory like 4/4 beat, crochets and bar theory. They will also be able to learn the different strumming pattern, simple plucking, and at the same time they will also be expose to the basic chords from the 8 major keys. They will also be able to play and practice their favorite songs. Students will also learn on how to take care of their guitar, like restring, guitar cleaning and guitar maintenance.


- Introduction to guitar
- Music theory. 
- Fast song strumming pattern, rhythmic exercise
- Slow song strumming pattern, rhythmic exercise
- Practice of chords from the different 8 major keys
- Simple plucking pattern, plucking exercise
- Technical maintenance and understanding
- Introduction to major scales.



Advance Contemporary Guitar
This course is design to build up on your skills and style of playing. For those who already knows how to play a guitar, and wants to improve on your playing, this course is for you! Students will be able to learn even more different kind of strummings pattern, advance plucking, and different style of playing on a guitar. They will also learn on more music theory like the chords system and the major scales.

-16 beats strummings, 3/4 strumming
- Freestyle plucking
- Chord System theory, Major Scales theory
- Styles of playing : Skanking, Guitar slapping, Double Stop
- Improvisation base on Major Scales and Chords
- Introduction to Cage System



Beginner Jazz Guitar Course
This course is design for students who already have at least has some years of experience of playing guitar, and are interested in moving on to Jazz. In this course, you will learn the theory of Jazz harmony, the different system that guitarist use to play Jazz piece,and  Bossa Nova and Swing style of playing Jazz music.

- Jazz Harmony Theory
- System 1 and 5
- Different Chords pattern : Dom7, Minor7, Maj7, Half dim7, Dim7
- Swing and Bossa Nova Style
- Song Studies
- Box System
- Introduction to System 1and 6
-Introduction to System 1 and 5


                                                                                 


Fingerstyle Guitar Course
In this beginner course, student will be introduced to the classical guitar genre. They will learn how to read musical notes, how to play the guitar in finger style, how to play different classical major scales, different arpeggios and harmonics. By the end of this course, students will be able to play and read classical pieces confidently. Students who are also interested to go for certified classical grading will be able to do so by going through this course. 


Brief summary of program:
- Introduction to Classical Guitar genre
- Sitting Position, symbols for fingerstyle playing, right and left hand positions, chord diagrams
- Simple playing, basic note reading, basic rhythmic notation
- Simple classic pieces for exercises such as “We wish you a merry Christmas, Amazing grace, Little brown Jug, Some folks do” 
- Scales and Arpeggio exercises
- Simple exercises for thumb and finger Combination
- Simple Classical studies