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Are you looking for the best Music tutor for your child ? Music education is essential for a child's development as it helps improve their cognitive ability, social skills and creativity. Our music curriculum is designed to help students of all ages and skill levels improve their musical abilities. Our expert tutors are musicians themselves and will provide personalised coaching to help your child master the fundamentals of music and music vocals. Be it New York in the United States or any other part of the world, your child is just a click away from learning proficient and advanced skills. Following is our detailed curriculum to help you better understand the programme.

Classical Guitar Curriculum – Skills and Scope

1. Identify and/or define basic terms related to classical guitar and music notation
Raise the head of the guitar to eye level
Face guitar straight up and down, not angled back
Lay right arm on the edge of the guitar, just in front of elbow
Position right hand just behind the sound hole
Curve and relax right hand fingers
Straighten right wrist
Place left hand thumb up-and-down, not sideways, on back of neck
Straighten left wrist, not bowed in or out
Situate left hand so that knuckles are parallel to strings
Place left leg on footstool
Lay guitar across left thigh
Relax shoulders
2. Sit with proper guitar position
3. Play with efficient, accurate right hand free strokes from the big knuckle
4. Play with consistent, robust tone
5. Place left hand fingers accurately and efficiently on the fret board
6. Connect musical phrases (legato)
7. Perform level-appropriate repertoire accurately
8. Observe and execute all dynamic/style indications
9. Sight-read with accurate rhythm, pitches, and dynamics
10. Exhibit proper, efficient rehearsal techniques
11. Display appropriate performance etiquette
12. Identify musical forms, styles, and periods
13. Select repertoire for themselves

Scope and Sequence

The scope of skills and concepts are broken down into two categories:
Theory/fundamental
Technical
In each of these two categories are 9 levels of achievement. The sequence of technical achievements is as follows:
LEVEL-1
Sit in proper playing position
Play free strokes with p, i, and m with fixed fingers
Play music involving the left hand by rote only
LEVEL-2
Play G major scale 1st position
Play i, m, a rasgueados with simple chords (G, G7, Am, Em, E, C, Dm)
Play a 5 note C major scale
Play music involving left hand bass notes by rote
Continue to play all notes with free stroke p, i, m fixed fingers
LEVEL-3
Alternate i-m
Right hand string crossing
LEVEL-4
Play a two-octave G major scale
Play a one-octave C major scale
Play a finger in chords
Play block chords using p-i-m-a
Play one-octave D major scale
LEVEL-5
Develop speed in scales and i-m alternation
Play simple slurs
Play multi-linear music
Finger new pieces
LEVEL-6
Play with timed, prepared extensions in the right hand
Play arpeggios with p-i-m and p-i-m-a
LEVEL-7
Play arpeggios with alternation- p-i-m-i, p-i-a-I, p-i-m-i-a-i
Play ascending/descending slurs
Play using bars in the left hand
Develop speed in scale and arpeggio playing
LEVEL-8
Combined Skills, Shifting
Play rest stroke
LEVEL-9
Intermediate/Advanced Performance

Fundamental and Theoretical Achievements

The sequence of fundamental and theoretical achievements is as follows:
LEVEL-1
Identify parts of the guitar and associated equipment
Identify staff, time signature, lines, and spaces
Read open strings on the staff
Read the following rests and notes: half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth
Identify right hand letters and left hand numbers
LEVEL-2
Read in first position on first three strings
Read accidentals
Read dotted rhythms
Identify key signatures C, G, and D
LEVEL-3
Read in first position on first three strings
Incorporate accidentals, dotted rhythms, and all note values
LEVEL-4
Read on strings 4-6
LEVEL-5
Read fluently on all strings in first position
Read multiple rhythmic combinations
Read multiple keys
Sight read block chords
LEVEL-6
Identify key signatures up to four sharps and three flats
LEVEL-7
No fundamental/theoretical achievements indicated
LEVEL-8
Read in second, third, and fifth positions
LEVEL-9
Play and read in all positions