If 6 Was 1 : Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching Single-String Guitar Playing

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this research was to focus on how guitar teachers and pedagogues in the pop, rock and jazz genres use single-string methods of teaching and playing with students at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. The goal was to provide experienced and upcoming guitar teachers with ways and methodologies to focus on single-string playing and teaching, which can lead to guitar students getting a full introduction to the guitar’s potential as a musical instrument.Through interviews conducted with five guitar teachers who have students from beginner to advanced levels of playing, I compared and contrasted the respondents’ teaching backgrounds, personal introductions to single-string playing, single-string method usages, perceptions of student responses, views on single-string playing and guitar method books, and perceived benefits of single-string playing for their students. From the study results, I concluded that a single-string teaching method is a feasible method to teach students from beginners to advanced levels such topics as improvisation, note location, ear training, sightreading, music theory, chord arpeggios, articulations, scales, string bending, hand movement, finger independence and hand positions. It is the teacher’s responsibility to adapt their materials and exercises based on where the students are in their learning.