Hi Efe! Sending you strength for this Ramadan!
Here is this week’s material.
Google Drives
— Em pentatonic scale – Feb 14th & 21st
This week’s Drive has the picture for the last set set of frets for this scale. The Feb 14th Drive gives you access to the other recent frets I assigned in this scale. Improvise with all of these on this backing track. Cool blues
— F#m scale – Feb 21st
This week’s Drive shows an F sharp minor scale. This is what Greenday uses when playing their melodies and the solo of Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
- Start getting used to playing it in this position.
- Start to remember what it sounds like.
— Octave chords
- Try playing those octave chords I was showing you in class. Fingers 1 and 4 only.
- Bottom 2 strings: 2 frets over and 2 strings up. This “square” shape makes the octave. Make sure finger 1 is muting the string in between.
- Middle 2 strings: 3 frets over and 2 strings up. The “rectangle” shape makes the octave. Make sure finger 1 is muting the string in between.
- We’ll be using these chords in Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
— Boulevard of Broken Dream – Feb 14th
- Last time’s Drive has the video to practice the same chord progression with. Please keep going with this. Really well done on this today!
- Listen to the song some more. YouTube link — You’ll hear the chords that sound like the octaves I was telling you about.
— Acoustic Open – Feb 7th
- Keep playing the first 12 bars.
- Try playing bars 13-15.
- (Bars 16-19 are a good challenge IF you have time for this. Not urgent.)