Hi Efe! Wishing you guys a great week!

Here is this week’s material.

This week’s Google Drive

Last week’s Google Drive

Em pentatonic scale

We’re almost done this scale now. Once we get to the 12th fret, you’ll have access and the ability to solo all over the guitar neck for many, many songs and pieces in the Em key. 

This week’s pictures show the added 9th and 10th frets to the scale.

– Please memorize these.

The new backing track to play over: Cool blues

Chord game

I was impressed with your work on the chords over the past week, Efe. Here is the next challenge to help you work on the proper transitioning techniques.

  • I’ll have the required videos uploaded to this week’s Google Drive tomorrow.
  • Practice these transitions alongside the Muse Score video in this week’s Drive. — It’s geared toward making your skills in this sharp; especially regarding Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
  • The other video has me describing what fingerings to use, and how to execute the transitions properly.

Acoustic Open — Until bar 12

Keep using the ideas I gave you today to help decipher (or just read, haha) the musical notation. It was a great class of you learning the methods to deciphering the musical notation. The tips to remember:

  • Where is Middle C? And where is my finger in relation to it? Close? Far?…
  • See what string your Left Hand finger is on. Then go over the note names (the letters) all the way up to the fret your finger is holding down. — HINT: The only notes that need one fret (that is, one semitone) to get to the next letter are B to C, and E to F.
  • Be mindful of the shapes of the melodies written. If they recur, but on different notes, then they might be played in the same way. For example: Bars 5 & 6 have a very similar shape to bars 9 & 10.
  • “Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge”
  • “FACE”
  • A note on a space right beside a note on a line is just one letter over. Same goes for the opposite.

Strumming

This is the least important homework. It’s more just for fun, if you have time. Keep working on that flicking style strumming we were talking about today.

  • Outsides of the nails.
  • Thumb and index finger, or thumb and middle finger.
  • Don’t move your arm too much. The strength is in the fingers for this, more than anything else.

I’ll soon make the decision on which song you’ll do for your recital, Efe. Smells Like Teen Spirit or Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Thank you for your patience.

See you in a week!