You’re Ready to Move On
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Closing Thought – Putting Things in Perspective
(^) Creating music is not some mystical, esoteric you have to “feel” it sort of thing. There is reasoning behind it
all. Yes, the end result is a beautiful tapestry ofhow music works is turning that beautiful tapestry sound we call music. But what we are doing when wover and seeing how all of the threads are connectee learn d and
working together so that we can start understandingmaking music is not about exercises. The exercises and making beautiful music on our own. I realize t are just the tools to get the skills inside of you that you hat
are going to need as you play music. The goal is nomeant to teach you all the songs you ever wanted tot the exercise. The goal is the skill. This cours learn. The goal of this course is to turn you inte is not o a guitar
player. Think of these exercises, worksheets and wplayer with some real skills on your instrument, then you can go out and play whatever music you want orkshops as your daily musical workout at the gym. to play. See you next Once you are a guitar
time!
Tips for Successful Learning
- Work on the Strumming Rhythms Slowly at First. Working on the strumming rhythms slowly
will help you develop a “feel” for the strumming pathe tempo on your metronome and try them faster. Mtterns. Once you can play them slowly then gradualany players jump into playing these strumming pattely increase rns too
quickly before they have developed a smooth motion Developing a smooth strumming motion is more importwith it, and their strumming sounds choppy and unevant at this stage than playing every strumming rhythm en.
perfectly. Start slow and gradually build up your speed. - Practice, Practice, Practice Naming Intervals. Practice naming intervals as you are going about
your day- as you are driving to work, or doing someinstantly so take these few weeks to concentrate on learning them. Fill out the worksheets in the lesthing else. The goal is for these to be recalled relatively son book and in
the bonus resources. Do them again and again untilcalling intervals by their names. These are skills that you are going to need to have in your toolkit you can fill them out as fast as you can write. G as we move et used to
toward understanding chords and knowing what notes sound good when soloing. - You can play all of the strumming exercises on pages 52-53 of your lesson book
and those in the bonus resources at 80 bpm. slowly increased to keep you challenged on changing between chords quickly. The suggested tempos in these sections are - You can play “La Bamba” and “Blues in E”, notes and chords, at 92 bpm.
- You can play the “Wabash Cannonball”, notes and chords, at 112 bpm.
- You have completed all of the interval worksheets in the lesson book and in the
bonus resources.