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Homework of the week – November 29

Kerem You should review review the concepts explored during the lessons, such as full-,  half steps and major scale. You should also practice playing the C major scale both exclusively on the 5th string and from the 5th to the 3rd string, using the proper positioning of the hand. In both approaches you should play the scale ascendantly and descendantly.   [...]

2017-09-05T21:46:20-04:00November 30th, 2016|

Homework for the week – November 22

Kerem You should review what we covered this week regarding your gear: your guitar and amp. Try to tweak things around. Play around with sounds and settings so you can familiarize yourself with them. You should also practice the opening riff to Sabbath's "Paranoid". Luke Luke once more should keep on practicing “Black Magic Woman” on the bass guitar. Now [...]

2017-09-05T21:46:21-04:00November 23rd, 2016|

Homework of the week – November 15

Luke Luke should keep on practicing “Black Magic Woman” on the bass guitar. In addition to it, he should practice the intro and verse  to "Come Together". Focus on sliding from E to A with the 3rd finger on the 5th string, and also on maintaing this A note sounding while you play F on the 1st string (with finger #1). [...]

2017-03-20T16:26:42-04:00November 16th, 2016|

Homework of the week – November 8

Rock Band All members should practice their parts for both song 1 and 2. All members should commit on bringing their respective parts / charts to the rehearsal. The band members who haven't brought the signed agreement this week should bring it this upcoming lesson.

2017-03-20T16:27:52-04:00November 9th, 2016|

Homework of the week – November 8

Luke Luke should practice the “Black Magic Woman” bass line on the bass guitar. Focus on the recurrent pattern – root, 5, b7, 8 – that is repeated throughout the chord progression. Frida Frida should practice playing E, F & G at the first string of her acoustic guitar. She should pay attention at the proper fingering as instructed on [...]

2017-09-05T21:46:21-04:00November 9th, 2016|

Homework for the week – October 4

Luke Luke should keep on practicing “Don't let me down”. Now his focus should be on the Verse. He should pay attention to the preparation to the verse: an extra beat is introduced in the last measure of the chorus. This 5-beat measure will remain as the last one of the repeating verse progression, except when this last measure precedes [...]

2017-09-05T21:46:23-04:00October 5th, 2016|

Homework post – September 20

Luke Luke is expected to keep on practicing “Dust in the wind” and to focus on connecting its parts so he can play the whole song as a single piece. He should also play “Locked out of heaven”. Matias Matias should keep on practicing “Jamaica Farewell” on the Hal Leonard book. His main goal should be to perfect the rhythm [...]

2017-09-05T21:46:24-04:00September 21st, 2016|

Homework posts – September 6

Luke Luke should play Dust in the wind, the whole song. Focus on the interlude and its Outro. Pay attention as well on the changes between the finger spacing on each one of the song's parts. Matias Matias should practice Layla, the whole song. Focus on the intro and on the transition to its verse. He should also practice Jamaica Farewell [...]

2017-03-20T16:38:16-04:00September 8th, 2016|

Homework for the week – June 21

Luke Luke should practice the different choruses to Dust in the wind. He should also review the song's verse. Paul Paul should consolidate the practice to Wild world. His main focus on this song should be the transition between its parts and the scales in the chorus. He should also keep on practicing Californication's solo. Matias Matias should review Wild [...]

2017-03-20T16:40:51-04:00June 22nd, 2016|

Homework for the week – June 14

Luke Luke should practice the verse to Dust in the wind, as well as its intro. Focus on the fingerpicking pattern and the bass, 1st, 2nd, 3rd string pattern in the verse. Lily Lily should practice He's a jolly good fellow at the Hal Leonard book. Matthieu Matthieu should play Jamaica farewell at the Hal Leonard book as well as [...]

2017-09-05T21:46:24-04:00June 17th, 2016|
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