Guitar Accompaniment for Folk Songs Learning Material for Junior High School Students

Abstract

This study aims to: 1) develop a student textbook on guitar accompaniment for folk songs; and 2) examine the feasibility of the developed student textbook. This is research and development with the Borg and Gall model that has been modified in six stages, namely: 1) research and information collection, 2) product manufacturing planning, 3) product development, 4) internal testing, 5) product revision, and 6) try out. The research instruments comprised of questionnaires for experts, music teachers, and students. The collected data were then analyzed by means of descriptive analysis by changing the data on the average rating into feasibility score interval. The results suggest that: 1) teaching material that was developed was in the form of a student textbook on guitar accompaniment for folk songs; 2) the developed student textbook is very suitable as a source of teaching material to help students learn guitar accompaniment for folk songs according to the experts, music teachers, and students. The textbook was considered feasible by experts (82.9% in ‘ the very feasible category ’ ), by music teachers (92.1% in ‘ the very feasible category ’ ), and the try out on students showed that 91.9% is in ‘ the very feasible category ’ .