Progressions: Section 2

Week 1
Tuesday, March 15th, 202
Thursday, March 17th, 2022
Tuesday - Flatpicking Basics
- Alternate picking
- Timing and feel
- Basic embellishments
- Fiddle Tunes
- Liberty
- Section 2 Fiddle Tunes
Thursday - Flatpicking - Variations and Improvising
- Incorporating licks
- Alternate Melodies
- Building variations
Class Recordings
Week 2
Tuesday,
March 22nd, 2022
Thursday, March 24th, 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.
Thursday - Jam [In Person at Swallow Hill]
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Class Recordings
Week 3
Tuesday, March 29th, 2021
Thursday, March 31st, 2022
Tuesday - Chords on the neck - Using a Capo
-CAGED progression of Chords
-Chord Shapes - G Chart pdf - C Chart pdf - D Chart pdf
- Chord Abbreviations
- applying patterns
Thursday - No Class - Martin will be gone
Class Recordings
Week 4
Tuesday,
April 5th, 2022
Thursday, April 7th, 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
Thursday - Recital - friends and family invited to come listen!