Classroom Guitar Series
for guitarist and non-guitarist teachers!
Our Classroom Guitar Series blends Shearer’s proven developmental curriculum with chords, strumming, harmony, guitar ensemble in a diversity of music styles by Alan Hirsh, newly designed online video and audio by Thomas Kikta as well as sequence-guided note-recognition and interactive sight-reading apps.
Its comprehensive sequence and online support (including a complimentary Instructor's Manual with online supplement) makes Classroom Guitar one of the most COMPLETE curriculum/resources for educators!
Instructor's Manual
Available for free with quantity Classroom Guitar book orders
Features
- The "no-fail" proven Shearer technical and musical sequence.
- Student/teacher Duets.(Teacher accompaniments include chord symbols for non-guitarists).
- 50 graduated Guitar Ensembles in a diversity of musical styles and tailored to the sequence. All parts include fingering and expression. Optional Contrabass parts avail in Year 2
- Integrated Guitar Harmony—applied exercises in Year 2.
- Strumming duets to apply the learning of new chords and rhythms.
- Guitar Percussion.
- Online instructional videos.
- Online audio support of all duets and ensembles.
- Note Finder for supporting note recognition and fingerboard association.
- Interactive Sight-Reader for developing reading with auto-grading assessment. Each level follows the sequence.
- Instructor's Manual and online Instructor's supplement available (free to instructors who purchase quantity book orders).
...the most detailed and dedicated classical guitar classroom method available.
The Aaron Shearer Classroom Method offers a clear, progressive path that builds technique and musical understanding. Structured for the guitar classroom, I use it daily in my middle school classes with graded exercises, concise explanations, and a consistent routine. It reinforces hand position, tone production, rhythm, and phrasing, establishing strong fundamentals for my students
Trio No. 3—Lullaby (p. 56)
Trio No. 6—Twilight (p. 68)
Simple Song II
(p. 37) Study to develop i-m free stroke. Teacher accompaniment can be either be played as written or strummed (for non-guitarist teachers)
Blue Jam
(p.96) Chord progression includes new chords A sus and D sus. Teacher may play the melody as written or improvise a solo.
Technical Sequence
1st Year
- Optimal Positioning and Posture
- L. H—development up to dyads and triads.
- R.H.—Free Stroke, sympathetic finger movement from p to p,i,m,a arpeggio.
- Chords and Strumming.
- Ensemble.
2nd Year
- Rest stroke.
- Opposed Movement—p,i,m,i
- Opposed movement with a
- Alternating fingers on single strings.
- Rest & Free-stroke scales.
- Ensemble.
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