Hi Efe! Wishing you a great week! Here’s the outlook on this month. The recital is May 2nd. The priority for you right now is to perform for the recital. Hence we’re putting the music reading and other guitar studies on hold for the time being. You’re going to be playing the 3 main riffs of Boulevard of Broken Dreams [...]
Hi Efe! Here’s a rundown of the material I’d like you to look at for the next couple weeks. Boulevard of Broken Dreams — The Google Drive of the previous week — Here is the latest Unlisted YouTube video covering the bullet points below: Link The riff that transitions from the main one into the chorus The riff that transitions [...]
Hi Efe! This week's material. Google Drive The main tasks are below. F#m scale — Go all the way up and down this scale. Goals: Get used to using fingers 1, 3, & 4 of the Left Hand. Get the F#m sound in your head. Boulevard of Broken Dreams The last link has me explaining what to do. Recent video [...]
Hi Efe! Here is your homework for this week. Google Drive of last week: Feb 21st The drive has most of the things you need. Here's what was missing: BOBD Feb 28th. For whatever reason, Google Drive is refusing to let me upload videos whose speeds you can change. This link is an Unlisted YouTube video link where you can [...]
Hi Efe! Sending you strength for this Ramadan! Here is this week’s material. Google Drives Efe Feb 21st Efe Feb 14th Efe Feb 7th — Em pentatonic scale - Feb 14th & 21st This week’s Drive has the picture for the last set set of frets for this scale. The Feb 14th Drive gives you access to the other recent [...]
Hi Efe! Wishing you guys a great week! Here is this week’s material. This week’s Google Drive Last week’s Google Drive Em pentatonic scale We’re almost done this scale now. Once we get to the 12th fret, you’ll have access and the ability to solo all over the guitar neck for many, many songs and pieces in the Em key. [...]
Hello Efe and family! Wishing you a good week! Here is this week’s material. This week’s Google Drive folder: Feb 7th Last week’s Google Drive folder: Jan 31st This week’s Google Drive — Acoustic Open — The piece I wrote for you to learn musical notation with. The PDF here is of this piece. Here are some pictures of the [...]
Hi Efe! So sorry I couldn’t be at the lesson today. I should be well for next time. This week's Google Drive: Efe - Jan 31st Here’s what to look at for this coming week. Em pentatonic scale New backing track: Em Blues This backing track is a little faster than the one from before. Try bends and vibrato here, [...]
Hi Efe and family! Wishing you guys a great week! Here is what to look at this week. Em (E minor) pentatonic scale Memorize the new frets added to this scale. — This Google Drive shows the frets. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1faNAHa6PfakFLpwZRjcAnOtmbvmd74Os?usp=drive_link Play with this scale over this backing track. The same as before. Slow Em Blues backing track Experiment with: Different speeds. [...]
Hi Efe! Wishing you and your family a great weekend. Here’s what I’d like you to work on this week. This Google Drive will have all the required material for this week. I'm having a delay right now. Everything will be there during the day on Sunday, January 18th. Efe - Jan 17th Regarding my notes on last semester's student [...]