Most students will get behind in some way or other. Try to keep up with learning your notes, with keeping time, and just keep hacking at changing chords. The rest is not necessarily important or unimportant, but you can always get back to the other things. Show up. I can’t teach you anything if you don’t show up.
I teach rudiments, i. e.: reading music, because to do otherwise is to steal from the students.
See the Beginning Guitar Instruction and get the first text files if you don’t have them. We will immediately start on the Ten Lessons. The html file has a few changes to the pdf file and additions to the class content.
Please go ahead and print the “quick links” in the Beginning Guitar section.
Beginning Guitar Lesson Plan Section numbers are in the "Ten Lessons for Guitar". 4.1-#1 means that you need go no farther than the line '1' in section 4.1. #1 is the first selection. "Duets" refers to the "Nine Easy Duets". "Solos" refers to the "Seven Easy Pieces for Guitar". Lesson 1. (The Two Pages) Lesson 2. Chords: 1.6, 2.4 Notes: 3.1, 4.1-#1, 4.2 Lesson 3. Chords: 3.4 Notes: 5.1, Duets: #3 Other: Strum and count 3.6 Lesson 4. Chords: 4.3 Notes: 5.5 6.1-#1, Duets: #9 Other: 5.4 Lesson 5. Chords: 5.3 Notes: 8.1-#1, 9.1 Other: 4.5 Lesson 6. Chords: 6.2 Notes: Duets: #1 Long Lulu Other: Solos: #3 Carcassi "Prelude": False Arpeggios Lesson 7. Chords 8.2 Notes: Solo #2 Jazz Eighths Other: Getting Started with Slurs Lesson 8. Chords: 10.1 Other: Review
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