Simple Guitar Lesson

•By Deanna Davis

Analyze the Learner Fourth Grade Music Class

Ages 8 – 9

Some children may have short attention spans

Learn best with hands on materials that include audio and

visual accompaniment

Relevance = Music!

Main Objective

My music class of fourth grade students will arrange their own

three chord song using classroom guitars, hands on instruction,

and a chord website by learning the parts of the guitar, the

strum-pluck-method, and three chords by the end of the week

with 90% accuracy.

Day-by-Day Break down

Day 1: Introduction, Strings, Frets, and How to Properly Hold the Guitar

Day 2: Review of strings and frets, D chord, strum-pluck-strum method.

Day 3: Review of D chord, A chord Day 4: Review of D and A chords, E chord Day 5: Children use the three chords to create their own short

song

Technology

Computers, to listen to the sounds of each chord as we learn it

Guitars for students, maybe groups, depending on availability

Smart board/Power Point for introduction and relevance

Works Cited

Strum-Pluck-Strum Method, www.justinguitar.com

To listen to chords as we learn them, www.chordbook.com/guitarchords.php