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NAfME Council for Guitar Education

Best Practices for Guitar

The NAfME Council for Guitar Education members are collaborating and presenting instructional videos for Guitar Best Practices for each year of study. They comprise a set of technical skills, music experiences, and music theory knowledge that guitar students should know through their scholastic career. Refer to this resource for more information.

This video series begins with Year 1 Best Practices. Bookmark this page to return to for new videos.

Identifying Chord Diagrams” presented by Kevin Vigil, Council Chair

Dr. Kevin Vigil discusses identifying chord diagrams and playing major, minor, and dominant seventh chords in first position in the keys of C Major, G Major, D Major, D minor, A Major, A minor, E Major, and E minor.


NAfME makes this resource available as a service to the profession. If you would like to obtain a course completion certificate for professional development hours, please view this resource in the NAfME Academy, which is a benefit of membership in NAfME.

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Category

  • Ensembles
  • Program Development
  • Standards

Resource Type

  • Classroom Resource
  • Teaching Guide
  • Teaching Tip / Idea
  • Video

Specialties

  • Guitar

Year Added

2025

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