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Reading Lesson 1 |
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| The reading exercises progress
quickly and it is essential you read a little every day. These exercises are to accompany Lesson 1 |
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| The staff consists of 5 lines and 4 spaces: |  |
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| A clef determines where the 7 alpabet letters are placed on the staff. | |||||||||
| Guitar music is written with a Treble
Clef, also known as a G Clef. |
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| Named the G clef because it looks like the letter G and loops around the note G. |
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| The large C is the time signature and stands for Common time ( 4/4 ) |
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| Like the white keys on the piano the notes just repeat the first 7 alphabet letters over and over. Space, line, space, line. We call this moving in steps. Notice all the notes are either a half step or whole step apart. | |||||||||
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Some words to help us remember the notes. Do not be embarassed to use these. It works. You will only need to say them for so long. Treble Clef Spaces |
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| Take a moment now to visit the Rhythm room(from the non-members section) to get started with note values. Listen to the examples and return here. | |||||||||
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Exercise #1 Using our high open E string (Eddie), try playing along with the midi files using half notes and whole notes. The time signature is C (common time) so our whole note will be worth 4 beats or counts and the half note will be worth 2. |
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Exercise #2
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Congratulations! You
have finished the first lesson.
It is very important to develop good practice habits. Set reasonable goals. Aim to do 10-15 minutes a day for now. Recommended: 2-5 minutes on alternate picking on your open strings.(Be sure to say the names of your strings) 3-5 minutes on fingergymnastics. (Always work to keep your fingers as close to the fretboard as possible) 1-2 minutes on the reading exercises from above. When you are ready to move to the next lesson use the link below. We will do the Reading exercises to accompany lesson 2 first before the actual lesson itself. If we don't do the reading first it becomes easy to skip the reading. Reading Lesson 2 - ment to accompany Lesson 2 Lesson 2 |
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