Below are a few different instructional areas that need to be included in the lesson plans for guitar:

• The Open Strings on a guitar are:

  • thick 6E
  • 5A
  • 4D Acronym to remember the open strings….
  • 3G “Elvis Always Does Good Before Eating”
  • 2B
  • thin 1e

• Tuning:

  Standard tuning is 440hz. Be sure your tuner is set to this number to be correctly in tune. If you want to tune down a whole step you would set the tuner at 438hz. The same is true if you want to tune up a whole step - set tuner to 442hz. For beginners, always tune to standard 440hz tuning. (more…)

This is the third and final installment of the “Essentials for the Classical Vocal Library” series. This seems to be a catch all of topics, moving from style and reference resources to performance preparation and finally career development. This installment is particularly useful for the teacher who has budding students interested in doing more serious auditioning and making a go of the music world. Some resources are not books, in particular the career resources, which are online databases for audition searches. If you have used any of these references and have found them helpful, please blog about your experience with them. If you have found another reference equally if not more helpful in any one arena, please list the title below. Thanks for following the series- if you are interested in a series of other singing topics, please list that below as well.
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Sibelius is a great program with many useful features and well thought out additions. There are two different versions of the software. Each fulfills a specific purpose. There is also a trial version that allows you to try out the software before you buy it.

The free trial version of the Sibelius software allows you to to test drive the software to see if it is for you. It includes a demo guide that explains all of the features. Be forewarned, this software doesn’t allow you to save your work.

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