This class is going to be a good mixture. There are poeple from various Book 3 classes from previous years and it's great to see all my good friends again.
After warming up with Caney Mi Macara and C'Etait Anne De Bretagne, we review the chords in a major key (pg 2 #2)
We then looked at an arrangment of the song Oh, How Happy You Have Made Me - a song sung by the Shades of Blue from 1966 (and later the Jackson 5). Below is a youtube recording of it. (I apologize if I overwhelmed you with this exercise but next week we will continue with the same chords and strum, and different songs).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e91eOYGL3Fs
In this song we are looking at the following things:
* Learning a Reggae strum
* Playing partial chords - we don't play the G string in the arrangment
* Using one major chord shape and one minor chord shape and moving them up and down the neck to change chords.
I have attched my workshop for this song (below). Please look at it even if you were in class because I have added or changed a few things.
For next week practice:
* Oh How Happy You Have Made Me
* Your F scale across the neck
* Hornpipe (pg 12)
* Chord changes on pages 7, 10 and 11 (The Ryans and the Pittmans)
As Promised Scot Ranney's practice philosophy. Talent is cheaper that table salt:
http://scotranney.com/2016/01/07/the-talent-excuse-dont-mistake-talent-for-focus-and-desire/
After warming up with Caney Mi Macara and C'Etait Anne De Bretagne, we review the chords in a major key (pg 2 #2)
We then looked at an arrangment of the song Oh, How Happy You Have Made Me - a song sung by the Shades of Blue from 1966 (and later the Jackson 5). Below is a youtube recording of it. (I apologize if I overwhelmed you with this exercise but next week we will continue with the same chords and strum, and different songs).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e91eOYGL3Fs
In this song we are looking at the following things:
* Learning a Reggae strum
* Playing partial chords - we don't play the G string in the arrangment
* Using one major chord shape and one minor chord shape and moving them up and down the neck to change chords.
I have attched my workshop for this song (below). Please look at it even if you were in class because I have added or changed a few things.
For next week practice:
* Oh How Happy You Have Made Me
* Your F scale across the neck
* Hornpipe (pg 12)
* Chord changes on pages 7, 10 and 11 (The Ryans and the Pittmans)
As Promised Scot Ranney's practice philosophy. Talent is cheaper that table salt:
http://scotranney.com/2016/01/07/the-talent-excuse-dont-mistake-talent-for-focus-and-desire/
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