This weekend (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) is the Square Roots Festival outside the school: http://www.squareroots.org/
Be sure to leave enough travel time to accommodate the crowds and limited parking options. It'll be a great weekend, so bring your friends and family and stay awhile. On Sunday from 4-5pm I'll be one of the teachers leading a marathon of Twin Spins, so bring your guitars and join me.
This week in Guitar 1 we added the A and E chords to our repertoire, and we talked about the difference between quarter notes and eighth notes and practiced the down-up down-up strumming patter of the latter.
Here's that Decemberists tune:
And here's Mr. Denver. We jetted (*snert* get it?!) through this one right at the end of class, but we'll pick it up again next week:
We also went over tuning in some detail. You've got some handouts to help you review, and check last week's recap blog for a link to a previous post on tuning that goes step-by-step through the essentials.
In Guitar 2 this week, the Thursday group did not meet because of the holiday (*sniiiiff*), so we'll have to double-time it this week to get caught up. On Sunday, we reviewed that pesky F chord, which is starting to sound pretty good, and slowed down the Sam Cooke tune so that we could really get into the shuffling feel of the 2/4 time. We added a muting technique to the second strum for added texture.
Then we moved on to the B minor chord, for which we have two different formations. There's the Am/3 version--which isn't a perfect B min, but never mind--and also to the Fmaj7 shape moved up 2 frets and played on the 1, 2, and 3 strings. And you can practice both formations in the same tune, thanks to The Monkees (not to mention a simple and satisfying riff!)
In Guitar 2 this week, the Thursday group did not meet because of the holiday (*sniiiiff*), so we'll have to double-time it this week to get caught up. On Sunday, we reviewed that pesky F chord, which is starting to sound pretty good, and slowed down the Sam Cooke tune so that we could really get into the shuffling feel of the 2/4 time. We added a muting technique to the second strum for added texture.
Then we moved on to the B minor chord, for which we have two different formations. There's the Am/3 version--which isn't a perfect B min, but never mind--and also to the Fmaj7 shape moved up 2 frets and played on the 1, 2, and 3 strings. And you can practice both formations in the same tune, thanks to The Monkees (not to mention a simple and satisfying riff!)
Remember to bring capos to the next class!
ONWARDS AND UPWARDS, MY FRIENDS!
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