Progressions: Section 2
Week 1
Tuesday, September 27, 202
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Thursday, September 29, 2022
Tuesday - Flatpicking Basics
- Alternate picking
- Timing and feel
- Basic embellishments
- Fiddle Tunes
- Liberty
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- Section 2 Fiddle Tunes
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Thursday - Flatpicking - Variations and Improvising
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- Incorporating licks
- Alternate Melodies
- Building variations
Class Recordings
Week 2
Tuesday,
October 4th, 2022
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Thursday, October 6th, 2022
Tuesday - Finding the Melody
- Simple melodies - Long Journey Home
- Finding the phrase - [See recordings to the right]
- Ideas to dress up a simple melody
- Slide to unison
- Hammer-ons and Pull-offs
- Long Journey Home - Slides, Hammer-ons, etc.
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Thursday - Jam [In Person at Swallow Hill]
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Class Recordings
Week 3
Tuesday, October 11th, 2021
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Thursday, October 13, 2022
Tuesday - Chords on the neck - Using a Capo
-CAGED progression of Chords
-Chord Shapes - G Chart pdf - C Chart pdf - D Chart pdf
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- Chord Abbreviations
- applying patterns
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Thursday - No Class - Martin will be gone
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Class Recordings
Week 4
Tuesday,
October 18, 2022
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Thursday, October 20, 2022
Tuesday -
Crosspicking
-Crosspicking Patterns - G pdf - C pdf - D pdf - Combo pdf
-Applying crosspicking - Find the simple melody using
quarter, half and whole notes. Fill the eighth notes in with
chord tone from crosspicking shapes.
-Long Journey Home - Crosspicking Variation
-Write your own crosspicking solo. Blank Tab Paper
-applying patterns
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Thursday - Recital - friends and family invited to come listen!
Class Recordings
Tuesday
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Thursday
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