This text contains a 180-day curriculum for the advancing student who has completed First Year Guitar. An essential companion product is the Second Year Guitar Teacher Manual (contains lesson plans, tests, rubrics).

UNITS

• Technique
• Roman numeral chord materials
• Scale skills: first position and movable scales
• First position notation: lh and rh fingerings;
• Application to chordal and arpeggio pieces
• Upper position playing in 2nd, 5th and 7th position
• Blues, jazz & pop studies
• Music theory, related to playing skills
• String bending techniques