Basic Skills

BASIC SKILL REQUIREMENTS
Level
Guitar
Piano
All Other
Beginning •transition open chord forms
•be able to read guitar tablature
•play simple solo lines
•play right hand solos proficiently
•make root position chords
•know the notes of the piano
•know how to name notes on your instrument
•be able to play beginning level solos
•produce a clean, strong sound
Intermediate •transition open chords quickly
•play bar chords
•know pentatonic scale patterns in various keys
•produce a clean tone with single notes as well as chords
•keep a rhythm between both hands with chords and root notes
•know major, minor & pentatonic scale patterns in various keys
•know the notes of the piano
•understand basic music terminology: octave, scale, solo, lead line…
Advanced •can improvise well in any key
•can play various shapes of the basic 3 seven chords, minor chords and major chords
•understand basic chord theory
•good sense of beginning music theory
•can improvise well in any key
•can provide “comping” to music provided with chords
•good sense of beginning music theory
•can improvise well in any key
•good sense of intermediate music theory

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