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 Amazing job on Blitzkrieg Bop! I can tell you put a lot of work into it and it paid off! Keep going with that tune, and keep playing along to the song. Playing along to songs is a great learning tool. Nice work on American Idiot today! You are getting really proficient with power chords, and it seems like [...]
Mike Great job on Sitting on the Dock of the Bay! It is sounding great. Keep working away at the bar chords. I know they are difficult but keep trying to practice them in small sessions as discussed. Another great thing to focus on is chord transitions as we talked about. This exercise can be done with open chords or [...]
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 [...]
Mike In My Life is sounding awesome. Keep practicing along with the song, with attention to the rhythm. Keep working on About Damn Time also. Practice Come Down for next lesson. There is a lot of great things to take from this riff. The rhythm is really tricky so keep listening to the track to have it in your head. [...]
Eric Great job this week. The past two lessons have showed amazing growth! The Weight is sounding great. Practice the transitions between each chord back and forth as you were in class. Keep going with the bar chord stuff too. Practice our four shapes (major and minor from the E and A strings), as well as the process to determine [...]