Guitar Ensemble
Our Promise:
Every student will be prepared for
continued learning, career, and life.
Mission
The Smithfield Public Schools will provide PK-12 students with a balanced, diverse, comprehensive, and sequential program of study in music.
Philosophy
The Smithfield Public Schools PK-12 Music Department will foster and inspire lifelong appreciation and involvement in music.
Content Standards
In January 2017, Rhode Island officially adopted the National Core Arts Standards for Music.
The standards are centered around Creating(Cr), Performing/Presenting/Producing(Pr),
Responding(Re), and Connecting(Cn) through eleven specific anchor standards. The standards
support a unified, high quality and sequential music education for students from
pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 1
Essential Questions |
- How do musicians generate creative ideas and make creative decisions?
- How does understanding the structure and context of musical works inform a response?
- What are the basic finger positions on guitar and beginning musical elements that you should know as a musician?
- What skills are needed in order to properly tune a guitar?
- How does one perform basic chords like C, F and G?
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Target Standards |
Core Arts Standards: - Creating: Imagine - Generate musical ideas for various purposes and contexts
- Performing: - Analyze - Analyze the structure and context of varied musical works and their implications for performance
Learner Qualities: - Self-Directed Learner: Learners take initiative and are active in the educational process.
- Quality Producer: Learners complete organized and focused products essential to the learning process.
Cross-Curricular Proficiencies: - Collaboration: Students will demonstrate collaboration through working effectively and respectfully with others toward a common goal.
- Problem Solving and Critical Thinking: Students will demonstrate problem solving and critical thinking by applying processes to define problems, evaluating possible outcomes, and persevering in solving complex problems.
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Knowledge, Skills, and Understandings | Content Resources |
Understandings: (Students will understand that…) - The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources
- Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
Knowledge: (Students will know…) - Learn the basics of note reading, strumming, finger positions on frets, basic chords, tuning, chromatics, key signatures and simple meter signatures.
Skills: (Students will be able to…) - Demonstrate the counting of simple rhythms, strum 6-7 basic chords and play simple melodies and harmonies.
| Common: - Classroom Guitars
- Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1
Additional:
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Instructional Planning and Delivery |
Target Vocabulary - Strumming, chords, frets, string numberings, parts of guitar (bridge, sound hole, neck), rhythm, melody, harmony and scales. |
Common Learning Experiences - Learn how to tune own guitar
- Introduce first three notes (E, F, G) on string 1, string 2 (B,C, D) and string 3 ( G, A, B)
- Play alone and together in an ensemble setting
- Accompany simple melodies
- Play basic 8 note scales (G, D and F)
- Sight read simple melodies and harmonies
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Assessment(s) |
Informal assessments through teacher observation based on individual skills and needs Formal assessment such as individual and group in class performances, rhythm and chord quizzes rubric |
Unit 2
Essential Questions |
Overarching : - How do musicians generate creative ideas and improve the quality of their creative work?
- How do musicians make creative decisions?
- How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?
- How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?
Topical: - What are the first 3 notes on all 6 strings and the fingering positions?
- How do we play a major scales using whole step and half steps? What are the necessary accidentals needed for the major scales G, D, F and Bb?
- How do we help improve technique on the guitar through the use of PIMA (pulgar, index, middle and anular) fingering technique and arpeggio playing?
- How do we create a small solo or duet with basic musical elements using a composition program?
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Target Standards |
Core Arts Standards: - Creating: Imagine - Generate musical ideas for various purposes and contexts
- Creating - Present - Share creative musical work that conveys intent, demonstrates craftsmanship, and exhibits originality
- Performing: - Analyze - Analyze the structure and context of varied musical works and their implications for performance
- Responding - Evaluate - Support evaluations of musical works and performances based on analysis, interpretation, and established criteria
Learner Qualities: - Self-Directed Learner: Learners take initiative and are active in the educational process.
- Quality Producer: Learners complete organized and focused products essential to the learning process.
Cross-Curricular Proficiencies: - Collaboration: Students will demonstrate collaboration through working effectively and respectfully with others toward a common goal.
- Problem Solving and Critical Thinking: Students will demonstrate problem solving and critical thinking by applying processes to define problems, evaluating possible outcomes, and persevering in solving complex problems.
- Reflection and Evaluation: Students will demonstrate reflection and evaluation through goal setting, self-assessment, and feedback, monitoring their progress toward goals and adjusting their strategies to account for individual strengths and challenges.
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Knowledge, Skills, and Understandings | Content Resources |
Understandings: (Students will understand that…) - The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources
- Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
- Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
- To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
- The personal evaluation of musical works and performances is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
Knowledge: (Students will know…) - Extend note reading to the first 5 frets on each string, intermediate strumming patterns, advanced rhythms, finger positions on frets, major and minor chords chords, power chords, chromatic scales, advanced key signatures and simple meter signatures. Compose a simple melody with 8 -12 measures using the knowledge learned in class.
Skills: (Students will be able to…) - Demonstrate the ability to play melodies and harmonies with the first 5 notes on each string. Use a variety of strumming patterns to accompany simple melodies. Play duets and trios in an ensemble setting. Demonstrate power chords with a variety of songs. Using a composition program, compose a simple melody with 8-12 measures in a simple meter.
| Common: - Classroom Guitars
- Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 2
Additional:
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Instructional Planning and Delivery |
Target Vocabulary - Strumming, chords, power chords, composition, frets, string numberings, rhythm, melody, harmony and major and minor scales |
Common Learning Experiences - Tune their own guitar each class.
- Know first 5 notes on each string
- Play alone and together in an ensemble setting
- Accompany more complex melodies with major and minor chords
- Play 2 octave scales and chromatic
- Sight read simple melodies and harmonies
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Assessment(s) |
Informal assessments through teacher observation based on individual skills and needs Formal assessment such as individual and group in class performances, rhythm and chord quizzes rubric |