Spanish Malagueña

This video is for a few of my students, but particularly Sam. Any of you who watch, if you have ideas on how to better film both hands playing, do comment. I have a few more angles on my computer that I'm thinking about uploading.

Lesson Times

Wednesday:
Sam+Melissa: 6:30 - 7:30pm
Brandon+Tyler: 7:45 - 8:45pm

Sunday:
Zach: 12:00pm

Conner, Mathew, and Jacob are out of town.

Practice Challenge Victory!

Brandon and Tyler finished the practice times challenge last week, and we went out for DQ!

9th Chord + Basic Blues Progression

Melissa and I are working one of the most useful chord progressions in jazz and rock playing - the Blues. She just commented on her post that she needed the shapes, so here they are. Keep in mind that this is only one "key" of a blues progression, and that they could be played starting on a different fret to play in a different key. In this case, I started on the 5th fret (A Blues).I took these pictures really quick. I'll edit later with better materials. The pictures go in order, I chord, IV chord, and V chord. (chord progressions use roman numerals by convention)

Practice Times

Post what your practiced in a comment, and for how long!

Treat next week for those who do this every day,
and if you do it for two weeks, we'll go out for
ice cream.

Bonus treats for anyone who comments on somebody else's
post (like, thoughts on a recording, etc.)

Zach

It's been a while since our last lesson! Here's our new piece: Rumores De La Caleta (Rumors of the Caleta). I'm glad you want to learn this one. You should know at least a little history of this piece. It was originally written for piano (because Albeniz was a pianist) and is from a 7 piece collection called "Recuerdos De Viaje" (Memories of Travel).

Christopher Parkening (check out that comb-over!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhfkmNSUW78

Piano version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R-0ICyloiU&feature=related

Sam & Melissa

Sam and Melissa just rocked out a pretty good take of May Song. Here's the recording: www.poodus.com/guitar/SM_MaySong_take4.mp3

Why May Song in June? Don't ask.

Collected Recordings

Conner playing Allegro from Suzuki Book 4
www.poodus.com/guitar/Conner_Allegro.mp3

Lily playing Waltz Espanol from Suzuki Book 5
www.poodus.com/guitar/Lily_WaltzEspanol.mp3

Zach playing Waltz Espanol [video, 27MB]
www.poodus.com/guitar/Zach_Waltz_Espanol_6-14.wmv

Brandon and I at his book 1 recital 2 years ago [video, 18MB]
www.poodus.com/guitar/Brandon_LLA_recital9-07.avi

Lily

Raseguado Exercise in Solea - here's a recording (mp3 file) by one of my old guitar teachers, John Wayland Harr.
http://poodus.com/jwh/7.Raseguado_Exercise_in_Solea%27.mp3

Post a comment to let me know you found this.

Conner

Good work on the "double stop" technique! Now we'll use it in a really cool Waltz from Book 2. Here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEEKclLd5wg (the performer is 5 years old. incredible)

Post a comment when you get this.

Tyler and Brandon

Tyler is working on some rock material- "Barracuda" by Heart. Specifically, work on playing at the same speed as the recording. You were really close today, just keep strummin'. Here's a video to play along with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bt_-R5LInU

Using a metronome would help, too ;) And of course, don't forget your Suzuki Review, sir.

Brand-o! Keep working on Capricho this week and see if you can get back to where you were - keep fighting the good fight! I'd love to see you finish this piece. Here's a recording I made: http://www.poodus.com/audio/Capricho_Arabe.mp3

Good luck this week. Make a comment on this page so I know you got here - and please share any progress or questions.