Oct 22-29 Homework – Colin Sydney Ivy by Frank Ocean. Keep working regularly on your bar chords, getting your first finger used to it. Practice adding additional notes of the scale for each chord as a variation. Harry Strings: Eddie Ate Dynamite Goodbye Eddie Practice tuning with an electronic tuner – you must know the letter names of [...]
Sydney Work on G major scale improvising either single note or within the chord, paying attention to which notes are in the chord and which ones are not. Same with C major scale on the other side of the paper I gave you. Harry Iron man riff – use both first and second fingers when playing the fast part [...]
Oct 8-14 Harry Iron man is starting to sound good, keep working on the fast bit using two fingers in your left hand. Names of strings, a way to remember: Eddie Ate Dynamite Good Bye Eddie (E A D G B E) You were a bit distracted when it was time to practice reading notation from the book. We [...]
Sydney You were using your ear to pick out the major scale associated with two major chords: D and F, while naming the notes from the root up to the octave. You also were able to improvise on a D major scale over chords I played in that key of D major. Further exploration: Go through other major chords [...]
11- 11:30 Nino play along with recordings of these two songs (get the App that slows down music if possible): Seven nation Army Iron Man Continue practising chords for demons 11:30-12 Shray Continue Minuet on pg. 99 Ode to joy: play notes above the pencil line I drew Kum ba ya in the old book 12:30-1:15 Veronica Reading [...]
New songs we worked on today: Chameleon by Herbie Hancock Gibraltar by Stanley Turrentine Loving You is on my Mind by the Meters
11- 11:30 Nino Continue working on the chord patterns and melody for Viva la vida and Demons: G, C, D7, and Em, Play along with the recording I made on youtube. Old: New this week: Harry potter. Pirates of the Caribbean “Hes a Pirate” and Viva la vida by Coldplay Pay attention to the rhythm value of the different kinds [...]
11- 11:30 Nino New this week: Harry potter. Pirates of the Caribbean “Hes a Pirate” and Viva la vida by Coldplay Pay attention to the rhythm value of the different kinds of notes: whole, half,quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes Also, keep working on the chord patterns for Demons and the Scientist: G, C, D7, and Em, as well as Wish [...]
11- 11:30 Nino New this week: Pirates of the Caribbean “Hes a Pirate” and Viva la vida by Coldplay and listen to the versions on youtube to get them in your ears. Also you can keep working on the chord patterns for Demons and the Scientist: G, C, D7, and Em, as well as Wish you were here which also [...]
10:30-11 Shray Prepare for performance: exercises on pg. 25 and 27, Deck the Halls. Play slow enough so you don’t need to stop and go smoothly from beginning to end. Also practice Greensleeves on pg 108. 11- 11:30 Nino This week we worked on: Titanium melody Somewhere over the rainbow Demons – chords are sounding good Started: the Scientist [...]