Pricing
$137.50
* 11 week session
*Purchase of Austin's Method book also required ($15)
Austin’s Group classes are taught at Aspire Performance Academy, 1149 South 450 West Ste# 103, Brigham City, UT
Beginning Guitar
(NEW students)
Wednesdays, March 1 - May 20
(no class April 5)
3:30 - 4:15 pm
Beginning Guitar
(some experience)
Wednesdays, March 1 - May 20
(no class April 5)
4:30 - 5:15 pm
Group Guitar
Intermediate
Wednesdays, March 1 - May 20
(no class April 5)
5:30 - 6:15 pm
Austin teaches excellent beginning group guitar classes for various ages in Brigham City, Utah. In class you will learn important fundamentals of music and guitar that will lead to a lifetime of fulfillment and enjoyment with the instrument.
Austin keeps class fun with popular and other music styles as examples and exercises. He takes students through his method book "All things Guitar" with added play-along tracks and rhythm instruments to keep things engaging and enjoyable. Some of the fundamentals covered in class include:
Technique (right and left hand position, sitting position, tension release, etc,)
Strum patterns (whole, half, quarter, dotted quarter, dotted half, and eighth notes)
Simplified chords
Level I chords (the most important chords on the guitar)
Staff reading (tablature, time signatures, measures, repeat signs, etc.)
Standard notation staff/notes in treble clef
Basic understanding of intervals by playing melodies on one string
Learning melodies by ear
Awareness of prevalent guitar styles
First position
Scales (G7, G major, C major, A natural minor, A harmonic minor)
Music Alphabet
Alternating picking and strumming
Basic understanding/application of fingerstyle technique
