DIGITAL GUITAR LESSONS PACKAGES I, II & III - CD-ROMs
Guitar III is focused on presenting new folk, swing and popular songs as well as for the improvement of improvisation and sight reading skills, or solo guitar playing, already started with Pack II. There isn't a separate pack for sale with Guitar III.
Criteria at stage 3 level (i.e. guitar III):
Stage 3 is where the trainee should consolidate the concepts learned in stage 2, and also learn at least 1 advanced level topic, for example applying melodic patterns in the major phrygian mode/V7 or in some melodic minor mode as a own choice, or using diminished arpeggios subs (topics at non-higher post-secondary level), within the performed and video-recorded folk songs, popular tunes, blues or old-time music pieces, and intermediate jazz standards (repertoire), and culminates with the completion of a final project (brief report or an advanced essay, which is typically an higher level assignment to gain a specialization from the ALPMC-CI Lab Band*) under the guidance of industry researcher Carlos Viegas.
(*)the unique Academy-Band in the EU that is part of a National Scientific Ecosystem, operating as an authonomous, independent Lab.
Access to the Specialization component in Popular Music on completion of the Certification III.
A Graduate Project - Specialized graduate level instruction (the recognition of training):
The non-credit graduate course is built of specialized lab continuing education units in popular music (practical music and theoretical project development), culminating in a scientific music essay for partial review and validation in the Carlofone (a journal for research proceedings at the undergraduate level in standard - not conference papers). Upon successful approval from the partial music review the Abstract can then be published in the ALPMC-CI's Journal of Graduate Music Research.
Note: the curricular component of this specialization received a pedagogical advisory service in 2012 from an accredited study centre for syllabus improvement with officially approved learning hours - both for contact hours of tutorial support/guidance and independent study. The Fernando Pessoa University’s Scientific Commission approved the ALPMC-CI’s Interactive Tutorial and Video System (Asynchronous) in the Research Days Proceedings of 2017.