The Development of Fingerstyle Guitar’s Exercise for the Students in Major of Popular String Instruments, Bachelor of Education, Roi Et Rajabhat University

Abstract

The objectives of this research were: 1) to develop exercises for fingerstyle guitar playing skills using percussive techniques to achieve efficiency according to the 80/80 criteria, 2) to develop fingerstyle guitar playing skills by incorporating percussive techniques of popular string instrument students, Bachelor of Education, Faculty of Education, Roi Et Rajabhat University to achieve the 80% assessment criteria.
The sample included 6 third-year students in the Bachelor of Education curriculum, majoring in popular string instruments of the music education program, Faculty of Education, at Roi Et Rajabhat University.
The research instrument utilized was comprised of: 1) Exercises for fingerstyle guitar playing skills for third year students majoring in popular string instruments, Faculty of Education, Roi Et Rajabhat University. 2) The popular string instruments skill assessment form for the third-year students gathered data through video recording, observation, questioning, interviewing, and evaluation based on the criteria. The statistical data was analyzed
by using percentage, average, and standard deviation. The research results found that:

              1) The efficiency of the fingerstyle guitar playing skill practice by using percussive techniques was 81.74/80.95, which was higher than the criteria of 80/80. 2) Developing fingerstyle guitar playing skills by using percussive techniques of students majoring in popular string instruments, Bachelor of music education curriculum, Faculty of Education, Roi Et Rajabhat University, passed the evaluation criteria with 80 percent. The fourth cycle which was the final cycle of the action research found that the average score of the 6 students was higher than 80%, the lowest average score was 85.71% and the highest score was 95.23%.