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A little Reggae - The Middle

9/27/2016

We are making good progress with Brown Eyed Girl and My Girl.
For next week you can practice your parts for those pieces because we will play them both again.
Parts for Brown Eyed Girl -
Chords: Lee, Joan, Melody, Chip, Brian, Carolyn
High riff - Connie Katrina, Pam, Michael, Glenda
Low riff - Carol Joan, Louise, Rick, Carla
Those who want to play both riff notes…go for it!
Parts for My Girl -
Pentatonic scale Riff - Louise, Chip, Jean, Pam Katrina
Everyone else is on chords and Vocals
Next week we'll see if someone wants to do the improvised solo at the end (talkin' bout, talkin' bout, talkin bout….or something)
NEW SONG! The Middle - This song gives us the chance to work on the Reggae Strum. For this song we are using a 3 string strum (only hit the C, E, and A strings). You have to work at missing the G string.
Remember that we only strum on the 2 and 4. The pattern is:
1 2 3 4
rest down-up rest down
Some recordings for The Middle are posted on the (NEW) Resource Page. There you will find recordings of the riff, the strum, the vocal.
Have Fun.
Gail

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Ukestra numero uno

9/20/2016

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It's great to see all of your familiar faces again. As I said yesterday, this class is a bit of an experiment for all of us, with the point being to have fun and learn something in the process.
I welcome any input you might have about the kind of things you would like to work on.
We worked on Brown Eyed Girl to begin with. This is a fairly simple song with a I, IV, I V7 pattern throughout most of the song. to add interest we are learning the familiar riff (with Harmony) that starts the song off.
For next week practice the riff: The melody, the harmony, and (if you want a real challange), playing both riff notes at the same time.
We then worked on My Girl. this tune gives us the chance to practice the 5 note pentatonic scale all over the neck. There is a key change in the middle. which changes the chords and the position of the (pentatonic scale) riff.
For both of these songs we will select parts to play and play them in class next week. So, although everyone has the option of learning all of the parts, you can choose what you want to play for the arrangement; chords, riffs, vocals, etc.
My exercises for Carpal Tunnel are posted Here.
Some notes about the attached files:
* I passed out all of these pages in class. There in nothing new posted here.
* I have copied most of these from Mark and Jane's(Australian's)"Sum of the Parts" site. In Australia the use different sized standard paper than we do (who knew?) so if you print them, your printer may chop of some of the top or the bottom. You usually still get the important stuff but may just lose the title.
* The page with the Brown Eyed girl riffs has the same parts shown twice so all you need is half the page (3 lines).
* The two pages at the bottom (My Girl Pentatonic and Major Pentatonic pattern) just show you two different ways fo looking at the same thing: The Major Pentatonic Scale.

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