Hi Ronan! Here’s what to do this week. Memorize the string names Funny sentence to memorize the string names with: “Eat A Darn Good Breakfast Everyday” I'll quiz you on this next week The PDF below is a diagram showing you the guitar strings and the order those^ letters are in — Remember: we speak upside down in guitar. "Higher" [...]
Hi Dalia! It was a great class today! Here is what to play this week. Old Strumming Patterns Play last week’s strumming patterns on all of last week’s chords. Do them all of the chords we’ve looked at so far. Including G7 New Strumming Patterns Free Apple Pie, Apple Pie is mine! — SP: D DUD DUD D D I [...]
Hi Hudson! Here’s what to play this week. Spanish Influence Play them in this order 4 strums per chord Chords Keep playing the same chords as last week Get your fingers used to the chords Single string games — E string Frets: 5, 3, 0, 0 — repeated LH Fingers: 4, 1, 0, 0 — B string Frets: 5, 3, [...]
Hi Ronan! Here’s what to do this week. Strumming Keep strumming this chord. Hold down the right frets. You've done it before so you can do it again My Sep 19th post describes how this type of diagram works — https://www.music-lessons.ca/ronan-sep-19th/ Am (A minor) pentatonic scale Try playing this scale. Go one note at a time. My Sep 19th post describes [...]
Hi Dalia! Here is what to play this week. Strumming Patterns Do the SP's on each chord. — The first 4 chords are in last week's post. Here is the newest one: G9. — This is easier than a G chord. Strum all four strings. The orange numbers represent which fingers to hold down the frets with. The diagram is [...]
Hi Hudson! Here is what to focus on this week. Chords The newest chord is A minor (Am) Do strumming patterns on each chord — Examples: 1. D UD UDU. Make the down-strums the stronger strums. 2. D D D D. 3. Strum down and up slowly. D U D U Sliding games Hold down any fret. Pick it, and [...]
Hi Ronan! Here’s what to do this week. Strumming Have fun playing that guitar! I loved seeing your energy and all the strumming you were doing in class today! Keep on going with that! Chords Keep trying to play these chords. I welcome you to play that^ G chord with any finger other than finger 4. Single string picking Play [...]
Hi Dalia! Great work today. Your homework was well done, and you were getting better at the challenges I kept giving you in class! Here is what to play this week. Strumming Patterns Play the following SP’s. Do each one over the following chords. One SP on only one chord at a time. The challenge with each of these is [...]
Hi Hudson! Here is what to focus on this week. Memorize the string names Eat A Darn Good Breakfast Everyday ;) Chords (like last week) SP (Strumming Pattern): D UD UDU Cycle this pattern. (Repeat it over and over.) Remember to start each cycle with a down-strum. — Pay attention to your RH when you do this. You've gotta make [...]
Hi Ronan! Here’s what to do this week. Memorize the string names EADGBE This^ PDF sows you the string names. I'll quiz you on these next week. Funny sentence to memorize the string names with: "Eat A Darn Good Breakfast Everyday" Open string strumming Strum through all 6 strings. Try to play the SP (Strumming Pattern) of Down, Down-Up-Down, Down-Up-Down, [...]