Simple Guitar Lesson
•By Deanna Davis
Analyze the Learner Fourth Grade Music Class
Ages 8 – 9
Some children may have short attention spans
Learn best with hands on materials that include audio and
visual accompaniment
Relevance = Music!
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.
Day-by-Day Break down
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
Technology
Computers, to listen to the sounds of each chord as we learn it
Guitars for students, maybe groups, depending on availability
Smart board/Power Point for introduction and relevance
Works Cited
Strum-Pluck-Strum Method, www.justinguitar.com
To listen to chords as we learn them, www.chordbook.com/guitarchords.php
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