My inquiry question that I am choosing to explore for the term is: How can I, as an already skilled ukulele player, transfer some knowledge of note reading, music theory, and basic songs to the guitar?
Why do I want to learn guitar?
Over the last week, I decided that I want to learn how to play the guitar. As someone who has been playing ukulele for about 10 years, I do not see this as being a super difficult task. I believe that having a better, and more generalized understanding of music and musical instruments can help me, as a teacher, to integrate music into my classroom. As well, there may be some opportunities for playing guitar both in, and out of a school environment.
My plan……
Going forward, I hope to learn more about the guitar as an instrument (strings and notes…etc), learn some simple scales, figure out some simple picking songs, and learn, play, and sing some simple songs. Some resources that will help me along my journey will be the internet, family and friends, and GarageBand.
What I have done so far…
So far, I have dug out my mom’s old guitar from the basement, learned the note names of the open strings, and began (informally) fooling around with some chords and songs. Beginning next week, I plan to go into more formal/structured skills (scales, notes, etc).
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