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 [...]

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. [...]