BASIC SKILL REQUIRMENTS
Level
Guitar
Piano
All Other
Beginning

-transition open chord forms

-be able to read guitar tablature

-play simple solo lines

 

-play right hand solos proficiently

-make root position chords

-know the notes of the piano

-know how to name notes on your instrument

-be able to play beginning level solos

-produce a clean, strong sound

Intermediate

-transition open chords quickly

-play bar chords

-know pentatonic scale patterns in various keys

-produce a clean tone with single notes as well as chords

-keep a rhythm between both hands with chords and root notes

-know major, minor & pentatonic scale patterns in various keys

-know the notes of the piano

 

-understand basic music terminology: octave, scale, solo, lead line...

 

Advanced

-can improvise well in any key

-can play various shapes of the basic 3 seven chords, minor chords and major chords-understand basic chord theory

-good sense of beginning music theory

-can improvise well in any key

-can provide "comping" to music provided with chords

-good sense of beginning music theory

-can improvise well in any key

-good sense of intermediate music theory