Description
Today’s MT-BC is increasingly called upon to deliver instrumental music in medical and hospice/palliative care environments. Many of us were trained to play melodically on the piano with chord accompaniment, but were in no way prepared to do this using the guitar. In this course, Center instructor Carolyn Koebel, MM, MT-BC will specifically show you how to access the melody inside the (basic) chord shapes you are already familiar with by identifying the location of the notes of the triad inside the chord, the location of the scale within the chord shape, and applying this to religious/folk/popular/world music repertoire that we routinely interact with. Truly, you can transform your playing very swiftly by attaching meaning to chord shapes, and re-organizing your picking patterns and accompaniment. Participants will earn 3 CMTEs.
Objectives:
1. Participants will expand their capacity to play melodically within harmonic structures on the guitar for multi-genre repertoire
2. Participants will review basic chord theory to add meaning to chord shapes and to more quickly activate extended chord repertoire
3. Participants will broaden the musicality of their accompaniment by further defining bass and melody strings and increasing variation of finger-picking and strum patterns
Schedule:
- Review importance of clinical competency and need for guitar proficiency
- Learn how to access the melody with inside basic chord shapes - Apply this to religious/folk/popular/world music repertoire
- Practice - Question/Answer
