This course provides beginning guitar instruction while exploring the foundational base for more advance learning in the student's specific areas of interest. A student may enroll for the class regardless of level of experience. Students must provide an acoustic guitar. The class instills knowledge and skills found in such topics as (a) aural procedures involved in tuning a guitar, (b) basic melodic reading and interpretation, (c) theoretical basis of harmonic chord sturcture, (d) knowledge of rhythmic theory, (e) standard and alternative fingerings, (f) modulations, and (g) ensemble playing. Evaluation will be based on the achievement of basic ability in (a) reading and playing melodic lines, (b) chording musical accompaniments, (c) playing the guitar in appropriate rhythmic contexts.