Three Rivers College to offer one-on-one guitar lessons for college credit
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (KBSI) – Three Rivers College students can earn college credit while learning to play the guitar.
Beginning in January 2024, students can enroll in a 16-week online course with personalized, one-on-one instruction. It will cover a wide range of topics and styles tailored to each student’s musical interests and goals.
The students must provide their own guitar and pass a performance and jury requirement through Zoom or submit a recorded sample for review.
The course “MUSP 1211-960S Private Guitar” is available for one credit hour. The course “MUSP 1221-960S” is available for two credit hours.
Students can learn guitar techniques, fretboard harmony, tablature, notation, and chord symbols. The curriculum spans from the compositions of Bach to the energetic rhythms of rock-and-roll, including classical, jazz and popular music.
Whether you’re a beginner interested in entertaining friends with popular tunes, looking to enhance your rhythm and lead skills for ensemble playing, or aspiring to study classical guitar repertoire and techniques, Three Rivers can help.
Instructor Daniel Atwood began his academic musical journey at TRC as a guitarist in the college’s jazz band. Heearned his Master’s degree in classical guitar performance in 2018 at Northwestern University.
Atwood has performed music over the years from various musical repertoires, from 16th-century lute song to Frank Zappa’s compositions for large ensembles. He recently showcased his guitar and tenor banjo versatility in the orchestra pit for Northwestern University’s production of Viktor Ullman’s opera “Der Kaiser von Atlantis.”
Atwood also has researched literary and theatrical representations of the guitar in English and German sources from the 17th to 19th centuries. His contributions include tablature arrangements of opera seria arias for Baroque lute and an exploration of archetypal harmonic-melodic structures in Mauro Giuliani’s 19th-century solo guitar repertoire, according to Three Rivers College/
He recently wrote a chapter for a collected volume on the use of video game music in the classroom, scheduled for publication in 2024.
For more information, email guitar instructor Daniel Atwood at datwood@trcc.edu.
To enroll at Three Rivers College, visit trcc.edu/apply.
