Rock & Roll 101

August 29th, 2023

August 22nd, 2023

I'm blown away by Caroline's ability. Obviously she comes from a talented family, because she's already playing new songs that we haven't gone through together, and keeping time on them, using inversions, the sustain pedal, and good emotive expression!
Try adding more sevenths, and using some other features like arpeggios in your playing.

August 15th, 2023

August 8th, 2023

Caroline printed out a few other songs she found online and has learned to play them on her own! We talked about some other things to add, and I introduced her to arpeggios. (This is when you go up and down the notes in a chord). They can also be used for little extra parts in between when someone is singing.

August 1st, 2023

July 25th, 2023

We reviewed the last week's songs, and added Blessed Assurance, Oh What a Saviour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOFu4FKTeks

We talked again about inversions, and I recommended she focus on adding those to a few of her songs this week, if not all.

Also reminded her how majors and minors work, and we talked about dminished and augmented chords as well.

July 18th, 2023

I accidentally applied the notes to the wrong week, so resaving here:

Caroline has done well on her first worship song. We added another, and I explained inversion for her again. We went through it a few times, and I encouraged her to play the A minor 7 and the Gsus (I think it was a Gsus?).

Great progress!

July 11th, 2023

This was the first week. We started off with some basic stuff: the "doghouse," and "grandma's house" -- this is where D and G are.
We then talked about scales as numbers, do ra me fa so la te do, or 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1
The numbers follow a pattern of whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step.

These numbers correspond to major and minor scales too:
1 major, 2 minor, 3 minor, 4 major, 5 major, 6 minor, 7 diminished

I wrote out a song with numbers for her to play along with, and we went through it a couple of times.