Group Guitar Classes - 2024
$62.50/monthly
* WEDNESDAYS September 3rd through May 22nd
*Will in part be using Austin's Method book "All Things Guitar" (One time charge of $20 for new group class students)
Austin’s Group classes are taught at Aspire Performance Academy, 1149 South 450 West Ste# 103, Brigham City, UT
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
Repertoire of Popular Songs
First Position Training and Scales (G7, G major, C major, A natural minor, A harmonic minor)
Music Alphabet
Alternating picking and strumming
Basic understanding/application of fingerstyle technique
