Hi Efe! This week’s homework. Blues — page 10, Guitar Method 1 book Be mindful of the correct picking directions. Goals with this piece: Reading musical notation. Good posture of hands, arms, and body enforced. Remember the slanted body position I was demonstrating today. Getting the hands used to the correct picking directions, as well as ingraining the habits of [...]
Hi Efe and family! Here is Efe’s homework for the next 2 weeks. Little Drummer Boy https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1cURXZdyFoL_6FZX5V4COTxCljwXKq8wO — check out the video and pictures I have for this piece. They should help you practice it The pictures are of the pages I’ve written out for the chords and the strumming pattern of this song Remember, check out the Pentatonix version [...]
Hi Efe and family! Wishing you a great weekend! Below are the items I’d like Efe to work on this week. Ode to Joy The circled areas on the sheet music only. I’d like these played more fluidly. 68bpm. Blues I haven’t revealed the note names or the frets for this piece. The exercise is to locate the notes on [...]
Hi Efe and family! Wishing you guys a great week! Ode to Joy was looking quite good today. I’m very happy with where we are for this piece. Below are the following items of homework for Efe this week: an exercise and a piece aimed at the improvement of the techniques we’ve been working on lately. There’s also a game [...]
Hi Efe and family! Below is the homework for this week. The lower section covers the piece we went over in class today. The higher section describes some important practicing principles that go for all of the work we’ll be doing going forward, as well as a great amount of the music practice you will do later in your life. [...]
Hi Efe and family! Here is the rundown of today’s material from class. Efe has done well with maintaining proper posture on the guitar. Keep it up! Buy this book https://www.amazon.ca/GUITAR-METHOD-BOOK-SONGBOOK-CD/dp/0793533929/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1480282241&sr=8-14&keywords=hal+leonard+guitar+method+cd+book+1&linkCode=ll1&tag=abacofmu-20&linkId=c46d9f40616531bb8a5d685c39b486e0 Homework Page 10 of the above book. — Songs 17 & 18. These two pieces have all the single notes that we have covered in our lessons so far. [...]
Hi Efe and family! Here is the material to work on for this week. Aim to do this practice routine once a day leading up to our next lesson. I’ve written out ideally how long Efe should practice these items in a day. If practicing in these time-lengths is not possible, then do as much as is possible in a [...]
Hello Efe and family! Wishing you guys a great weekend! Below is the rundown of material to work on from today's lesson. Aim to do this practice routine once a day leading up to our next lesson. Practice everything with a metronome. Tempos are listed for each item. Please get the Guitar Method 1 book this week. The Amazon link [...]
Goals Get your hands and arms used to positioning as we’ve been working on in class. Memorize the Left Hand fingerings of the Am pentatonic and C major scales. Get a feel for both standing and sitting while playing. Aim to practice for 45 minutes a day if you can. If that’s not possible then still do as much as [...]
Always wear a guitar strap. That's a rule. Whether sitting down or standing up. Goal: 6 days x 45 minutes. If not possible, then 6 days x 15 minutes at least. 15 minutes: Scales. C Major and A minor pentatonic. With a metronome, at 40BPM; one note per beat. Listen to About a Girl as well as Paint it Black [...]