MUS 104 - Electric Rock Guitar Styles

3 Cr.

This course is an overview of electric guitar styles used in playing the blues, rock music and modern guitar playing styles used in music through the present day. It includes the study of major and minor pentatonic scales and inversions, and the Dorian and mixolydian modes, scales, inversions of scales. It will expand the player’s ability to produce sound through the incorporation of natural modes and the harmonic minor scale. It will explore variations heard in the traditional vocabulary of guitar chords including turnabouts, the use of barre chords, power chords, open position chords, and movable chords. Analysis of playing styles will include such artists as B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Kirk Hammett, Tom Morello, and others. Styles will be developed by playing classic blues songs, classic rock songs such as “Purple Haze”, “Hey Joe”, “Sunshine of Your Love”, “Layla” and “Heartbreaker”, and modern rock songs. Students will also explore current trends of electric rock guitar playing styles.
Pre-Requisites: Six months playing experience.

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MUS 104 - Electric Rock Guitar Styles