Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Session 4, Week 2 Recap

Hi gang! Hope everyone is fully recovered from the holiday weekend and fully committed to practicing some hot guitar licks!

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!)


Remember to bring capos to the next class!

ONWARDS AND UPWARDS, MY FRIENDS!

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