Guitarist Gergely Szabo has an Advanced Diploma in Music Performance from Cambrian College where he majored in the classical guitar. Over his time there, he completed 2 years of comprehensive pedagogy courses. He also gained well grounded vocal skills, as well as basic knowledge on the piano. Outside of classical music, he exhibits a repertoire of skills and knowledge in playing the genres of rock, blues, and heavy metal music. He has experience in teaching the guitar and the ukulele to a range of people aged 6 to 54.
Gergely’s teaching methods include both the use of books and digital methods. The three main books he uses to teach guitar are as follows: “Guitar Method Book 1 by Will Schmid and Greg Koch,” “Four Star Sight Reading and Ear Tests RCM Level 1,” and “Classical Guitar Repertoire and Etudes RCM Level 1.” For teaching ukulele, he uses the book “Ukulele Songs for 1, 2, or 3 players by Elizabeth Ragsdale.” Aside from these, he frequently uses the Muse Score application as a play-along practicing tool.
Gergely’s passion for music and his dedication to growing the love of music in others are the biggest reasons why he teaches guitar and ukulele. His approach to teaching involves learning through play. The material he covers with his students is always delivered in a way that is highly interactive. Most of the assigned exercises he gives involve the elements of play that students can enjoy both in class and as homework.
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Tuesday, June 11th
Myles
Survivor: Eye of the Tiger
–good. Let’s focus on the road map! Two strategies: listening to the song, and reading along. Work on both!
–See the new section on the sheet in google drive (chorus and post-chorus) and maintain those sections for next week
–Get the fill at the end of the chorus up to speed
–Please print the updated chart from your personal folder in the google drive
Refresh Alfred Solo #2 (lines 1-6)
Xylophone
–Review of C major scale, identifying the musical alphabet
–Page 33 in the piano book
Jonah
Warmups (1min/ea)
–Triplet Exercise (Goal tempo=115)
–Sixteenth-note exercise (goal tempo=100)
Herbie Hancock: Watermelon Man
–Drill the third-line fill
Xylophone
–C Blues Scale**
Noah
Warmups:
–Triplet Exercise (1mm RH, 2mm LH) @ 95bpm
–Sixteenth-note Exercise 75bpm
Lenny Kravitz: Are You Gonna Go My Way
–Final touches: drill the different flam fills (all four of them) at the beginning of each practice session
–Add in the “trash can” fill at the end! Crash–>cymbal swell–>rolls low to high on the drums–>final crash!
Saturday June 8 Lessons – Erin P
Hakim
Bee – You do such a good job of keeping the beat in your brain when playing the RH melody, now just play your LH on each beat, like a metronome. I drew vertical lines to show you where all the LH quarter notes fall.
Zum Gali Gali – Great work. Look to the page to confirm notes in the legato sections.
*New* Scary Swing – The key signature makes all Bs and Es flat. The 16th notes span an octave range, do not try and just stretch your hand, but instead pivot at the wrist like your fingers are a radar scanner. Once your thumb has played, let it go and pivot your wrist to help out your thumb. I labelled the chords, if it has a minus sign it’ll sound minor, plus sign will sound major.
Maria
First Loss – watch the F#s. The LH only has 3 different positions, all of which go root-5th-octave. Great reading today.
Noreet
*New* Forest Drum – Listen to it here. This piece introduces the concept of a half rest = one symbol that means two beats of rest. The intro to this piece goes “play , play , rest , rest”, creating the Drum effect. Both hands are in D minor position. Don’t move your RH from this position and let the finger nungers guide you in playing this melody. At the top of page 2, the LH shifts down to C position and back up (the paper says Shift when this happens).
Continue to practice your C major contrary motion scale, and your G major scale. Remember, same standard fingering, just with F# instead of F.
Preferred Books for Gergely’s Students
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Hal Leonard Guitar Method
The second edition of this world-famous method by Will Schmid and Greg Koch is preferred by teachers because it makes them more effective while making their job easier. Students enjoy its easy-to-follow format that gives them a solid music education while letting them play songs right away. Book 1 provides beginning instruction including tuning, 1st position melody playing, C, G, G7, D7, and Em chords, rhythms through eighth notes, solos and ensembles and strumming.
Four Star Sight Reading and Ear Tests
