CAHSS Offers Basic Guitar Classes and a Virtual Guitar Orchestra “Concert in the Time of COVID Quarantine”

Would you like to learn to play the guitar or improve your playing? NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) offers Beginning Guitar MUSC 1300 throughout the year and recently students provided a Virtual Guitar Orchestra “Concert in the Time of COVID Quarantine.”  Led by adjunct professor Tarra Guerra, M.M., the students in the class learn music notation and rhythms, strumming patterns and to perform major, minor, and seventh chords. The goal is for the class to be enjoyable, and for the members of the class to form a supportive network for each other’s efforts. Each week there are informal opportunities to play both solo and group (ensemble) performances and there are two public class concerts.

Guerra teaches Guitar at CAHSS and runs Suzuki Strings South Florida. She is a member of the Guitar Foundation of America, the Miami Classical Guitar Society, the Florida Guitar Foundation, the Suzuki Associations of the Americas and of South Florida, Morning Musicale, and the Florida Federation of Music Teachers. Guerra has performed original rock in New York City and Seattle, original country in Nashville, Celtic and modern folk in New Zealand and Ireland, Bluegrass in North Carolina and Florida, been a professional one-person band, and is a published songwriter with several solo albums.

The course, Beginning Guitar is offered in the fall in two sections: MUSC 1300 CRN 21772 and MUSC 1300 CRN 21846 both taught by Guerra.

To enjoy the virtual concert, please see: https://youtu.be/7Ak7AZ5-Vvo