Year 5

Guitar

Within Year 5 pupils have a 30 minute session each week where they are learning to play the guitar. The skills they are focusing on are:

• Learning how to hold the guitar.
• Learning how to strum and pluck the guitar strings.
• Learn the names of the strings and the parts of the guitar
• Learn more advanced music theory such as more intricate notation, more complex rhythms and a wider range of dynamic and tempo language, as well as introducing the idea of texture and timbre.
• Learn different chord positions.
• Learn songs using different chords.
• Singing and playing.
• Learning how to play riffs on individual strings.
• Group playing.
• Composing.