Layla The tunes from Matilda are sounding great! Keep practicing along to the songs! Great work on the finger picking double stop. Keep your focus on that this week. It is amazing you got it going with Continental Breakfast! Keep experimenting with it. Try it out in different places within the progression. Nice work on Baby Says! This one has [...]
Emet Nice work on Blue Orchid and Hardest Button to Button! Those are sounding really good. Play along to the songs this week! Great work on Under Cover of Darkness! This song is tough but it is really fun. Focus on the riff in the intro this week. Listen to the song if you need a reference. Try out the [...]
Kaylee Nice work on Run! Keep practicing those bar chord shapes. They will be incredibly useful. Great work on Perfect today! Again, work on the shapes as much as possible. Between these two songs, we use all four of the bar chord shapes we know: major and minor from the E string and A string. We will keep reviewing exactly [...]
Emet Nice work on Solute Your Solution! Keep working on both the chords and the riff. Focus on your right hand and the string changes when playing the riff. Practice it slow, but in time. Great work on Blue Orchid today! Practice those two main riffs that we went over. This is a great song to practice rhythm ideas and [...]
Mike Great job with Let It Be! Keep practicing it with both open chords and bar chords. As discussed, this song would likely be played with open chords, however bar chords are more useful for your learning. Great work with the melody today. This is a great exercise, and something we will do more of in the future. Listen to [...]
Jayden Blitzkrieg Bop sounds great! Keep working on getting smooth transitions between chords. Keep practicing along to the song. American Idiot sounds great too. Focus on the rhythm of this tune. Listen to the song if you need a refresher. Good job on Should I Stay Or Should I Go today! Listen to the song this week and try to [...]
Mike Great work on Bad Moon Rising! Your right hand was looking really good today. I like that it was not waiting for your left hand to transition chords. Practice this tune slow this week and you will see what I mean. Keep making sure your right hand stays locked in the strumming pattern. Keep going with the exercise for [...]
Jayden Great work on Sweater Song and Island In The Sun! Try to play along to the songs this week! Keep working on the exercises we went over also: both chord switching and string crossing. Nice work with memorizing the fretboard. Keep practicing and familiarizing yourself with the dots on your fretboard. They are great milestones to help us get [...]
Mike Come Down sounds great! Focus on the rhythm this week. Play along to the song at 75% speed and occasionally see where you are at with the original speed. It will come with time. Keep working on the major, minor and blues scales. Move them around the fretboard! Additionally keep working on the Snake. The focus should be on [...]
Jayden Sweater Song is sounding great. Keep working on the intro riff and the chords. Continue to work on the chord transitions the way we went over today. Try to play along with the song this week. Nice work on Island in the Sun! Your vocabulary with bar chords is really coming along. Keep working on your process for playing [...]