Hi Everyone,
Here are your assignments for this week:
Ella
Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day
What to practice: Sweet And Tender Hooligan
How to practice it most effectively: Split each bar into 3 groups and look at the “puzzle pieces” individually and then put them together.
How parents can support practice: Encourage Ella to continue picking up the guitar and taking a look at her lesson materials.
Lucien
Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day
What to practice: #31
How to practice it most effectively: Remember to use fingers 2 and 3 for 2nd and 3rd fret notes. Start with the counting and let the counting “drive the bus” the guitar playing should be a “passenger” we’ll talk about this more next time!
How parents can support practice: Encourage Lucien to continue picking up the guitar and taking a look at his lesson materials.
Augustine
Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day
What to practice: #54
How to practice it most effectively: Take small sections of necessary and piece them together, go on to to the next song if you finish!
How parents can support practice: Encourage Augustine to continue picking up the guitar and taking a look at his lesson materials.
Jayden
Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day
What to practice: #16
How to practice it most effectively: Co-ordinating right hand, left hand, along with reading the music are the 3 elements to juggle right now. Break the song down into 1 bar and 2 bar sections. Treat it like a game, can you play every bar in the song on it’s own? Can you play each 2 bar section? How about 4 bars?
How parents can support practice: Jayden will benefit from a reminder to
Van
Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day
What to practice: #16
How to practice it most effectively: Break down into 1 bar chunks, then start putting the song together, 2 bars at a time, line by line and then the whole song.
How parents can support practice: Encourage Van to continue picking up the guitar and taking a look at his lesson materials.
Tresa
Recommended minutes to practice: 15 min/day
What to practice: Try the strumming pattern we looked at in class, you could also try coming up with some different patterns, or sounding out patterns from song you’re learning.
How to practice it most effectively: Try the strumming patterns in the songs you’re working on as soon as you can, and mixing them in with singing as well.
Have a good week everyone!
Trevor