1. Music Therapy with Guitar (using Learn to Play Guitar Essentials) By Lisa Fleetwood

2. What is Music Therapy? Using music to reach a certain goal/goals with a single patient or in a group setting In general, treatment includes creating, singing, moving to, and/or listening to music

3. Guitar’s Role in Music Therapy It allows the therapist to sing while playing It is mobile (as opposed to piano) It is versatile (use with any population)

4. Guitar Requirements Students studying music therapy are required to take several classes studying the guitar and incorporating it into therapy. In addition to classes, a program that can help is Learn to Play Guitar Essentials.

5. May I Have A Volunteer!?!

6. “Learn to Play Guitar Essentials”

7. Benefits Program online is only $10 Plays chords so you can hear Pick a certain key Built in tuner Especially for Music therapist: Change chords within a key Can help transpose to key better for singing

8. Example Therapy for Geriatrics Selecting a song and changing the chords to add variety

9. Why Change chords? POSITIVES More interesting for client Creativity for the therapist Not going for very hard chords, just color

10. Rain Drops Keep Fallin’ G Rain drops keep fallin’ on my head G C Bm And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed, Em Bm Em nothing seems to fit, Those Am rain drops just keep fallin’ on my head, they keep fallin’ D G So I just did me some talkin’ to the sun…

11. Covers just the basics Doesn’t offer a wide variety of chords nor does it include minor keys Software Issues LIMITATIONS