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Mr. McCaffrey's 8th Grade Guitar

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The 8th grade guitar class is an advanced guitar class. Students first review the basics of guitar handling and proper playing techniques. They then move on to more advanced chords, strumming techniques, and songs. Students are graded through daily participation, a quiz, and two performance tests.

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Review the names of guitar parts

Review string names and numbers

Review guitar chord charts

Review proper handling of guitar

Review proper finger placement

Advanced strumming techniques

Three finger chords (C, G, G7)

Review simple songs

Review changing between two chords (C, G7) (Song for Test 1)

Advanced three finger chords (D, A7, G, D7, A, em, EM)

Advanced songs