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 [...]
Hi Efe! Here's the rundown of what to do for this week. Chords Reacquaint yourself with the E, Em (E minor), G, and B chords. The Google Drive provided on December 6th shows you how to play the E chord. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1cURXZdyFoL_6FZX5V4COTxCljwXKq8wO The B chord is played on frets 7, 9, 9, and 8 going from the low E string up [...]
Hi Efe! It’s too bad you weren’t at today’s lesson! But it does happen. Over this week, I’d like you to do the following things. Listen to these 3 songs: Rumble, by Link Wray Smells Like Teen Spirit, by Nirvana Boulevard of Broken Dream, by Green Day See which one you like best. Then we’ll use that one as your [...]
Hi Efe! Wishing you and your family a great two weeks! On Saturday December 13th I won’t be teaching, so you have two weeks to work on the following material. General notes Warm up before practice sessions. It doesn't matter what strings or frets you play. Just start picking the strings on the guitar at a fairly brisk speed so [...]
Hi Efe! Here’s a list of today’s homework in detail. E Major string crossing 65BPM fastest. Strictly. — Do this alongside my video. Practice it as we did in class. 8 reps, 2 bars of rest. Then do that again. Until 5 whole minutes have passed. Pay close attention to one hand at a time. Take time to correct what [...]