Hi Everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Hugo Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day What to practice: D major in 2nd + 4th position, as well as up the A string individually. & Fingerpicking With Alternating Bass Pattern How to practice it most effectively: Positions are the fret number where your first finger gets anchored. Saying the note [...]
Hi Everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Declan Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day What to practice: Yellow Submarine How to practice it most effectively: Try playing it with a metronome - 85 Slow, 125 Fast, Try speeds in between as well. How parents can support practice: Encourage Declan to spend a few minutes each day on his [...]
Hi Everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Declan Recommended minutes to practice: 5-10 min/day What to practice: Yellow Submarine and Smells Like Teen Spirit with Technique adjustments. How to practice it most effectively: Arched fingers, hand in one spot, and all fingers down when playing notes with your fourth finger (pinky) How parents can support practice: Encourage Declan [...]
Hi Everyone, ****Please note that as I'm away next week, Jay will be here as your substitute teacher. Refer to your homework posts this week as I'll be sending a copy over to Jay as well. Here are your assignments for this week: Hugo What to practice: D major Scale in 2nd position and 4th position. How to practice it [...]
Hi Everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Ariel What to practice: Valerie How to practice it most effectively: Take a look at the chords we looked at in class, Emi and Dmi are good ones to review. Also take a look at the "One two three" rhythm we were working on for singing along with. We can look [...]
Hi Everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Hugo Recommended minutes to practice: Aim to spend a bit of time each day on the instrument, 5-10 min every day is a good goal to start with. What to practice: Scales How to practice it most effectively: D major, D pentatonic, F major, Bb Major - Metronome @ 80, two [...]
Ariele Recommended minutes to practice: Aim to pick up the guitar once a day. What to practice: Make You Feel My Love - Adele How to practice it most effectively: Play through the chords, aim to stay familiar with the shapes and we'll look at this some more next week. Declan Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day What to practice: [...]
Hi Everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Hugo Recommended minutes to practice: 15 min/day What to practice: Fingerpicking between two chords from the key of D major with the Metronome How to practice it most effectively: One note for every two clicks, 4 notes per chord. Some suggested speeds: 80, 60, 100, 120 Jack What to practice: Demons [...]
Hi Everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Ariel Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day What to practice: Chords + Adele song How to practice it most effectively: For the new shapes try finding the chords on their own a few times to practice - a good way to do this is by finding the shape, taking your hand [...]
Hi Everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Hugo Reccomended minutes to practice: 15 min/day What to practice: Fingerpicking in D major How to practice it most effectively: 4 notes per click at 77, choose chords from D major scale to make a chord progression, try using “neighbour notes” (one note up or down from notes in the chord) [...]