Hi Everyone,
Here are your assignments for this week:
Ella
Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day
What to practice: Hot Crossed Buns, Welcome To The Black Parade
How to practice it most effectively: Use a metronome, check the timing and fingering for each note.
How parents can support practice: Encourage Ella to pick up the guitar for a few minutes each day and take a look at her lesson materials.
Lucien
Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day
What to practice: World Beat and Ode To Joy (from Hal Leonard book)
How to practice it most effectively: Take it one bar at a time at first and check the notes with the previous page. Make sure to play 3rd fret notes with your 3rd finger as well.
How parents can support practice: Encourage Lucien pick up the guitar for a few minutes each day and take a look at his lesson materials.
Augustine
Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day
What to practice: Notes on The 3rd String exercises and Rockin Robin (from Hal Leonard Book)
How to practice it most effectively: Take it one bar at a time and use the previous page to check your notes, be sure to check whether it’s a line or a space note.
How parents can support practice: Encourage Augustin to pick up the guitar for a few minutes each day and take a look at his lesson materials.
Jayden
Recommended minutes to practice: 10 min/day
What to practice: #5 in Hal Leonard Book
How to practice it most effectively: Take 1 bar at a time and play the notes at the same speed (tick tick like a clock) and in a loop (repeat 3 to 5 times without stopping). Once you can do this with each bar the next step is to play 2 bars together (1+2, 2+4, 2+3).
How parents can support practice: Encourage Jayden to pick up the guitar for a few minutes a day and take a look at his lesson materials.
Hugo
Recommended minutes to practice: 15 min/day
What to practice: C Major 2nd position + Travis Picking
How to practice most effectively: Scales (Metronome at 75) 1. One octave (c to c) 2. All strings, as low and high as you can go
Travis picking – metronome at 100 on 1 chord (C + C/F)
Switching Between Two chords with Travis picking (C + C/F) @ 100
Maurya
Recommended minutes to practice: 15 min/day
What to practice: counting and clapping
How to practice most effectively: use a metronome @ 75 – step 1 say the counting, step 2 clap the rhythm step 3 say the counting and clap the rhythm
How parents can support practice: Encourage Maurya to take a look at his lesson materials.
Have a good week everyone!
Trevor