Instrumental Technique
I. Grades
Weekly Performance Grades
Students will receive a weekly performance grade for technique class based on an appropriate rubric. Performance grades will alternate between scales and arpeggio juries, repertoire juries, and sight reading quizzes.
Guest Artist Activities:
Individual improvement is a key to improvement of our group as a whole. In order to achieve this goal, guitar students are afforded the opportunity and expected to participate in Master Classes and Coaching Sessions run by Guest Artists. Guitar students will attend and perform at these sessions/seminars. In addition, most visiting artists will give an after-school master class. Attendance at these master classes is mandatory (excused absences will require a parent’s note), although not all students will play in master classes. Attendance will count as an exam grade (an excused absence will count as an excused grade), for which the only possible grades are 100 and 0.