My first lesson

Gavin · Post by **Gavin** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 4:15 pm

Just had my first lesson.Very interesting.This is my homework for this week,
Arpeggios in A Major, D Major,A Minor and D Minor.
Petatonic Minor Scale in A and D
A Blues and D Blues.

Walking finger technique with a G , A ,B ,C , then an eercise with all of the notes together in a 4/4 beat
He drew some diagrams for me, so if anyone is interested i will scan them, and post them

Oh yes Polyal, i nearly forgot, he made me use my pinky a lot

Another thing i forgot to mention.He will only teach people to read music.He will never show anyone how to play tabs, because if you can read music, there is no need for tabs.Tabs will never teach you improvisation.That is what he said anyway

polyal · Post by **polyal** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 5:29 pm

good start then...now its the main three things....PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
definitely learn to read music ....but also learn tab ..theres loads of stuff written in tab ( thats not in the dots )
if you learn both you've got the best of both worlds
its up to you now ..best of luck

jamesd74 · Post by **jamesd74** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 10:22 pm

Bloody hell with that amount of homework you might need to take the week off work.....

Poly will like your instructor as he seems to be PINKY MAD AS WELL

Yes please scan and post i am still learning and would like to see

polyal · Post by **polyal** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:07 pm

if the pinkie was to be shunned god would have given us 3 fingers
and if he did we could all have given him two fingers and said ' give me my pinkie back
and i promise to use it always...even if i'm doing my own thing

jamesd74 · Post by **jamesd74** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:58 pm

You see Gav...it all gone religious on the Pinky

Gavin · Post by **Gavin** » Fri Mar 15, 2013 4:47 pm

jamesd74 wrote: Yes please scan and post i am still learning and would like to see

Will do.If you can bear with me a couple of days.I am on the nightshift, so little time to setup my scanner and get a few mins of the all important practice..Will do it over the weekend

Gavin · Post by **Gavin** » Sun Mar 17, 2013 4:45 pm

Hope they are clear enough as i had to go over it in black pen, as the pencil wasnt dark enough to scan

If you look at the Pentatonic Scale, you start at the 5th fret.The numbers correspond to your fingers.So you start with your first finger on string 4, then your fourth finger to fret 9, then back to finger 1 on string 3, then 3rd finger on string 3, back to first finger on 2nd string, to 3rd finger on second string.Then straight back to first finger on 2nd string , and just carry on backwards until you reach the 5th fret 4th string where you started from.Basically that is the same with all the scales.
Hope that is clear

jamesd74 · Post by **jamesd74** » Sun Mar 17, 2013 9:35 pm

Yer cheers .... will have a play with them....