R&L Education / National Association for Music Education (NAfME)
Pages: 260
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Trim: 8¾ x 11
978-1-60709-389-3 • Paperback • October 2009 • $83.00 • (£64.00)
Steve Eckels is a National Board-certified guitar instructor at Flathead High School, Montana, the author of over twenty guitar books for MEL BAY publications, and a master guitarist.
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Effective Planning
Chapter 3 Assessment Techniques
Chapter 4 Applying the National Standards for Music Education
Chapter 5 Your Strengths as an Educator
Part 6 Preliminaries
Chapter 7 Preparations
Chapter 8 Quick Start: Your First Week
Chapter 9 Hand and Body Positions: Learning How to Learn
Chapter 10 The Right Hand: Using the Thumb and Pick
Chapter 11 The Left Hand
Chapter 12 Strength and Motion
Chapter 13 Teaching Individual Tuning
Chapter 14 Group-Tuning Techniques
Part 15 Music Reading
Chapter 16 The Natural-Note Scale
Chapter 17 Music Reading
Chapter 18 Ensembles
Part 19 Chords and Accompaniments
Chapter 20 How and Why to Teach Power Chords
Chapter 21 Playing Bass
Chapter 22 Teaching Chords
Chapter 23 Strumming
Chapter 24 Chord Progressions
Chapter 25 Finger Picking
Chapter 26 Teaching Songs
Chapter 27 Teaching Singing and Playing
Chapter 28 Barre Forms and Transposition
Part 29 Intermediate Skills
Chapter 30 Improvisation
Chapter 31 Student Combos
Chapter 32 Teaching Music Theory
Chapter 33 Teaching Jazz Chords
Chapter 34 Teaching Solo and Classical Guitar
Chapter 35 Tablature
Chapter 36 Hammering-On, Pulling-Off, and Two-Handed Tapping Techniques
Chapter 37 Reference Frets and the Entire Fretboard
Part 38 Remedial Techniques
Chapter 39 Remedial and Artistic Uses of the Capo
Chapter 40 The Benefits of Teaching Melodies on One String
Chapter 41 Using Riffs for Educational Purposes
Part 42 The Guitar Room, Guitars, and Independent Study
Chapter 43 Setting Up the Guitar Room and Equipment
Chapter 44 Guitars and Accessories
Chapter 45 Independent Study
This is a much-needed approach for guitar educators since it will assist both experienced and novice guitarists teaching popular styles in the classroom. For any musical style, there are many good tools to manage class progress in this book, delivered in a sensitive and very positive way.
— Michael Quantz, education director, Guitar Foundation of America
Teaching Classroom Guitar is full of great tips for guitar teachers at all levels of teaching, tips that you don't find in standard methods books.
— Suzanne Shull, MENC guitar education team clinician and career classroom music teacher
A complete education should include music education, shown to improve performance in both math and science. Education is for life, teachers who continue to educate themselves improve their ability to engage students and pass along the skills relayed in this book.
— Brian Schweitzer, governor, Montana
An impressive collection of a wide array of tools useful for general classroom guitar education. Steve Eckels demonstrates that he is an educator of experience, breadth, and depth. The information is accurate and methodology well thought out. A veritable treasure trove for the general classroom guitar teacher.
— Gregg Goodhart, chair, Music Department, and director of the classical guitar program, Servite High School, Anaheim, California
I've been teaching a one semester generic guitar course at the University of Maine and the University of Southern Maine for 25 years. The course has morphed into guitar course for music education majors. Your book has been instrumental in furthering this gradual transformation. It is a formidable text! Every idea I've ever had or stolen about teaching this course is in your book plus many more. As a classical guitarist I appreciate the inclusion of good posture and sensible use of the hands etc. Congratulations on such a thorough and no nonsense book. There is absolutely no fat in it!
— Keith Crook, classical guitar instructor at The School of Music at the University of Southern Maine