2 unit guitar classes?

Zelda_Fitzgerald
Wed, 04 May 2011 19:51:41 +0000

alamemom: They must have changed the requirements, then. I only took individual instruction my first year and that was a while ago – so totally possible!

Gameaholic: If you look in the USC course catelouge, you will see you may be required to start right from “A”; level B has this listed as a prerequisite: 1 from (MPGU-120A or MUPF-120A)

In my experience for more “skill-based” classes, prerequisites may be waived with permission of the instructor. Unfortunately, the individual class descriptions of the levels don’t state which skills are covered in which subset of MPGU 120. You may want to get in touch with someone at Thorton to ask about a waiver.

However, you can probably save yourself the trouble by thinking logistically about your skills as a guitarist. You know some chords – but even I learned about 5 chords on my first day of playing guitar and most songs only use 3 different chords in the first place! But, if you know complex chords outside the realm of A - C - F - G - E - D (maj and min) or can do various voicing of the chords I just mentioned OR know some fingerstyle, I think you’d be safe to try and petition to get into a higher level.

There’s always the option of enrolling in level A and going to the first two or three sessions to see if it’s at your level or not. If you find it’s too easy, you can easily switch into the B section since there’s a large window for adding and dropping classes. I’m going to bet the first class or two will cover SOME things you know, but you may end up learning a lot in level A (different strumming methods, some theory, etc.)