Hi Everyone,

Here are your assignments for this week:

Ella

Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day

What to practice: Killer Queen

How to practice it most effectively: Go through the three steps for practicing chord switches on your notes. 1. Try each chord on its own, check for left hand arched fingers 2. Switching between 2 chords. 3. Add Metronome starting at 50 bpm and do the counting and switching exercise.

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: #21, and 22 in Hal Leonard Book. Get started with #23 as well.

How to practice it most effectively: Check that you’re using fingers 2 and 3 where indicated on the music.

How parents can support practice: Encourage Lucien to continue picking up the guitar and taking a look at her lesson materials.

Augustin

Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day

What to practice: #33 + 35 in Hal Leonard Book

How to practice it most effectively: Check chord diagrams and pictures to work on the chord shapes. Aim to get from one chord to the next slowly.

How parents can support practice: Encourage Augustin to continue picking up the guitar and taking a look at her lesson materials.

Jayden

Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day

What to practice: #6 in Hal Leonard Boom

How to practice it most effectively: Go through the notes and work on getting from one to the next. Try keeping an even pace if you can but we’ll look at this some more next time.

How parents can support practice: Encourage Jayden to continue picking up the guitar and taking a look at her lesson materials.

Have a good week everyone!

Trevor