Classroom Music
Below you fill find information pertaining to the various music classes taught at EHS
Intro to Music Technology
This course is designed to familiarize the student with the current uses of computers, synthesizers, and software associated with the contemporary music industry while developing a foundation of music theory and musicianship.
Music Keyboarding
This course is designed to teach the concepts and fundamentals needed to perform on the piano. It will increase musical understanding beyond just reading notes by teaching students a vocabulary of chords and keys, accompaniments, and improvisational
techniques.
Guitar 1
This class is a performance-based, hands-on learning class. You will be assessed on performance skills taught during class, playing examples, written tests or quizzes, participation and projects. This class provides the opportunity to learn the following:
Guitar 2
This is a course for students who have studied previously and wish to continue their study of guitar. You will learn simple folk-song type material using varied melodic style as well as modern chording styles. Activities are geared to learning staff notation, chord patterns, and rhythm. Practicing is done during class sessions on instruments provided by the school. You can expect to become a moderately good player.
You will learn open chords, movable chords, accompaniment techniques, and a variety of playing techniques and styles including both the pick-style and finger-style approaches to the guitar. Music fundamentals, theory, songs, performances, listening, composing, improvising, analyzing, and reading standard notation and tablature will be included in this course.