Nanda A. Halim

The main focus of the study entitled The Competence of Playing Electrical Guitar of Classical Guitar Division’s Members in Rumah Gitar Mahasiswa Community Indonesia University of Education is to investigate how the effects of classical guitar’s right hand technique toward electrical guitar’s right hand are, and how the effects of classical guitar’s left hand technique toward electrical guitar’s left hand are. In addition, this study intends to portray how the competence of RGM’s members in playing electrical guitar is. This study used analytical descriptive method through qualitative which employs qualitative approach, all of the findings and discussions are elaborated in some details.  The techniques of data collection are observation, interview, and pre-test and post-test. The subject of the study is focused on two members of classical guitar division in RGM who are able to play electrical guitar and have taken instrumen pilihan wajib gitar’s subject in Department of Music Education. The findings show that the left and right hand’s technique in classical guitar is influenced positively toward the left and right hand’s technique in electrical guitar. Then, the exercise process occured in RGM includes four steps which are warming up, tuning, fingering, and reading a score. Therefore, it can be concluded that RGM’s members have good competence in playing electrical guitar.