Hi Everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Declan Recommended minutes to practice: 15 min/day What to practice: Major Scales How to practice it most effectively: Go through the notes on your bass to the Major Scales we wrote down in class, say the letter names as you play the notes to help you remember! How parents can support [...]
Hi Everyone! Here are your assignments for this week: Jett Recommended minutes to practice: 15 min/day What to practice: Arms Around You How to practice it most effectively: Use a metronome if you can get access to one, if not go through your notes and count aloud, do your best to consider the timing of the notes you're playing. How [...]
Hi Everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Declan Recommended minutes to practice: 15 min/day What to practice: Playing with a metronome How to practice it most effectively: Download a "metronome app", try playing along to a click at different tempos (speeds), remember to subdivide (imagine twice as many clicks in your head, or better yet quadruple) How parents [...]
Jack What to practice: Guitar tuning and Demons/Imagine Dragons How to practice it most effectively: Try matching the sound of your guitar to the sound of another guitar, or piano keyboard. Go string by string, adjusting the pitch up and down, let your ears guide you. Start checking out your song as well if you get a chance. How parents [...]
Hi Everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Augustine Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day What to practice: "Mirza" How to practice it most effectively: Aim to use finger 1 for fret 1 and finger 3 for fret 3 and go through your notes one at a time. How parents can support practice: Encourage Augustine to continue spending a [...]
Hi Everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Hugo Recommended minutes to practice: 20 min/day, 5 times a week What to practice: Shape Of You, Chords/Arpeggios, Scales How to practice it most effectively: Shape Of You - Start by finding the notes/grips one bar at a time, taking your hand off of the guitar between each "rep". Try bar [...]
Hi Everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Declan Reccomended minutes to practice: Self Directed - (Fri/Sat/Sun/Mon 15 min/day) What to practice: Bass line to “All The Things You Are” Lucien Reccomended minutes to practice: 10 min/day What to practice: Autumn Leaves How to practice it most effectively: Check your notes with the “legend” at the bottom of the [...]
Hi Everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Hugo Reccomended minutes to practice: 15 min/day What to practice: Shape Of You, Fingerpicking Excercise, F major Scale How to practice it most effectively: Go through the chords and notes to shape of you, each bar starts with a chords followed by two melody notes. Fingerpicking-play through the chord progression at [...]
Hi Everyone! Here are your assignments for this week: Declan Reccomended minutes to practice: 15 min/day 4 days a week (Mon/Wed/Thur/Fri) What to practice: All The Things You Are Bass Line How to practice it most effectively: One bar at a time, put it together, aim to get through the whole sheet, but bring in as much as you can [...]
Hi Everyone, Here are your assignments for this week: Hugo Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day What to practice: Stairway to Heaven + Shape Of You How to practice it most effectively: Stairway -Set your metronome for 77 and play one note for every 2 clicks, pick two chord shapes and alternate between (first two chords we tried in class). [...]