Ahhhhh! That new session smell. Welcome back to the school and to this blog! After many weeks of technical difficulties, I believe I can post again (testing? testing?)
Not a moment too soon either, because we've got new things to learn!
In Guitar 4, we buckled down on some fingerpicking using the T-2-1-3 pattern, each finger tasked with a single string (6,4, 5, 3 respectively). The fretting hand just makes simple two-note powerchord shapes. Here's the original: http://youtu.be/7e-sba4tIss
We'll do some more fingerpicking work out of the songbook in our next meeting, so be sure to bring those with you.
And in case you missed it, here's our triumphant 3Rep grad performance. STILL getting compliments!
http://youtu.be/5zt2ftX0ydM
Saturday's Guitar 3 Rep kicked things off with some Itchycoo Park by the Small Faces. Here's the video I mentioned with the fancy footwork and the shorts. http://youtu.be/14ViwvgtvbA
We talked about building dynamics into the tune with some mellowed-out low volume strumming in the bridges, with a small crescendo over the second measure of E the first time, and a much bigger build the second time. There's also the funny split measure in the chorus. Remember that the first chord gets three beats, the G is on the 4, and the D is on the and of 4 inside the same measure, despite the way it's written.
We also learned the chorus of Ziggy Stardust. Barre chords all the way down, with a fast, hard-rockin' 16th note downstrum. Try to grab the G chord for one quick note on your way back up to the Am (that's the 3 in parenthesis on the handwritten tab). We'll carve off another chunk of that tune in our next meeting.
And Sunday's Guitar 2 Rep revisited--or learned for the first time--the calypso strum! It's the same rhythm as our old friend down, down-up, up, down-up; but we change it up by plucking the root note on the one, really deliberately d-r-a-g-g-i-n-g out our strum on the two, and gently muting on the 3rd beat space. The rhythm in this vid is a little different but it's just too good not to share: http://youtu.be/c_cRHw8PAPA
We also got though Picture Book--great job with that, by the way! I don't think I've ever gotten through that in a single class before, let alone as the second song!--with its modular riff pattern (0 0 2 4) that you replicate on successive strings (the 6th, 5th, and 4th strings OR the 5th, 4th, and 3rd strings depending on where you are in the song) before finishing with a 5 5 4 3 walkdown on the high string. The second time through the riff though, you'll stop short with just one hit on the 5th fret. When you play that truncated version, be sure to rest for the duration of the measure so you don't come in early on the next one! Practice the heck out of your C to F transitions, and try not to get lost in all those split measures--especially at the very end.
http://youtu.be/UjDu3E5zDks
See you soon!
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