Title: Fundamentals and introduction to music

notation
9/1/15-9/30/15

Course: Guitar I

Desired Results
Content Standards:
1.3.12.B.1
1.3.12.B.2
1.3.12.B.3
Curriculum Guidelines
1. Students will develop a sense of the value of music and musicianship through a better understanding of
the elements by which instrumentalists develop, refine their skills and thereby increase their expressive
capabilities.
2. Students will acquire an appreciation of the guitar as a unique musical instrument, its lineage, music
culture and musical awareness as it relates to music history. Doing so will ultimately promote ones relative
responsibilities to their surroundings.

Enduring Understandings:

Music Reading
Music Notation
Pitch
Rhythm
Parts of the guitar
Basic Guitar Fingerings
Fingerboard chart
Major Scales
Musical Forms

Essential Questions:

What is music notation?

What is the difference between beat and rhythm?
What are the two main elements of music notiation?
What is standard guitar tuning?
What is a scale?
What is the fingering numbers for guitar?
Why is musical form important?
What is a musical scale?

Students will know

Students will understand that

How to read pitches on the staff

How to count simple rhythms
How to recognize the different parts of the guitar
How to use the fingerboard chart
How to play one octave scales in 1st position
How to recognize simple musical forms

Correct technique is important for appropriate and healthy

practice
Music notation is based on rhythmic and pitch values
Music notation is essential to understand detailed musical
concepts
Pitch and rhythm are essential elements of music
Understanding form is important for a successful
performance

Assessment Evidence
Performance Tasks:

Explain the music staff and the main music symbols

Explain the pneumonic devices for the spaces and lines of the music staff
Explain rhythmic values and the correct ways to analyze them
Present the parts of the guitar and their purpose
Explain basic guitar technique and fingering
Explain musical form

Explain the major scale and its impact in tonal music

Key Criteria:

Proper technique
Proper posture
Correct pitch
Correct rhythm
Recognize symbols
Standard Guitar Tuning
Understanding of musical form

Other Evidence:

Modifications
Modifications are in place based on student IEPs.

Learning Plan
Learning Activities:
Identity the parts of the instruments
Define fingering numbers
SW learn basic fingering exercises and warm up routines
The basic concepts of music notation will be explained to the students
The staff
Clefs
Time signature
Pitch
Rhythms
Types of notes
Accidentals
Other musical notation symbols
SW learn how to recognize notes on the lines or spaces of the staff.
SW use pneumonic devices to remember the location of notes on the staff.
SW learn the appropriate ways to recognize and count various simple rhythms.
SW understand how to combine both of these skills.
SW learn the standard tuning of the guitar.
SW learn the parts of the guitar.
SW learn how to use the fingerboard chart to find notes on the guitar.
SW use the major scales chart to identify notes in simple tunes
SW perform simple melodies based on major scales
Define and demonstrate musical forms
SW learn to play Frere Jacques and London Burning as a round
SW play the rounds in groups of 2 and 4
SW learn to play Twinkle, Twinkle, Hot Cross Buns, London Bridge
SW analyze all tunes to understand musical form and repeated sections

Materials/Preparation:
Materials: Music Notation Handout, Guitar Parts Handout, Symbols Handout, Major Scales in 1 st position sheet, Basic
Melodies Sheet
Preparation: Prepare handouts and examples