1. Simple Guitar Lesson
•By Deanna Davis

2. Analyze the Learner
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Fourth Grade Music Class
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Young children without long attention spans
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Hands on learning, with audio and visual accompaniment
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Relevance = Music!

3. 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.

4. Day-by-Day Break down
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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

5. Technology
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Computers, to listen to the sounds of each chord as we learn it
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Guitars for students, maybe groups, depending on availability
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Smart board/Power Point for introduction and relevance

6. Works Cited
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Strum-Pluck-Strum Method, www.justinguitar.com
To listen to chords as we learn them,
www.chordbook.com/guitarchords.php