Series: Spanish Guitar Intermediate Material Set 1

None of the lesson in this series have been reviewed.

Below are the descriptions for each of the lessons included in the series:

• Learn the DOWN UP HIT UP strumming pattern

  I show you how to integrate a hit into your strumming pattern with the right hand so that you can start to create exiting rhythmic variations.

  m5l4-strumming-duhu-strumming_qtp

• Practice the 5th Position Chormatic Scale

  Gain Finger Agility. Practice the scale for smoothness and accuracy.

  m9l2-finger-independence-chromatic-exercise-5th-fr

• Practice the All Natrual Notes in Open Position

  Knowing your scales vastly improves your ability to identify melody and improvise your own. Here we cover the notes found in the most fundamental of all scales: C Major.

  m9l1-scales-all-narual-notes-open-position_qtp

• Practive Combinding Arpeggio and Strumming

  Here we practice changing from one right hand technique to the other. We will change from the pima arpeggio to the DUHU strumming pattern using the A minor, D minor, and E7 chords.

  m9l4-integration-pima-duhu-am-dm-e7_qtp

• Learn to strum a Strum a triplet with hit

  This is the Triplet strumming technique I use in my song called "To Live"

  m7l2-strumming-triplet-with-hit_qtp

• Practice the Intro to The Most Evolved slowly

  I play the notes slowly so that you can learn and practice along with me to the beat of a metronome.

• Scales Pratice: Fretboard Chart - Natural Notes

  A great way to learn the notes of the Fretboard is to write them out on a fretboard chart. Here I should you how to practice writing out the natural notes in first position (first three frets of the guitar basically plus the open strings)

  Print this chart out and Practice! Practice! Practice!
  m10l1-scales-writing-open-position-notes-fretboard

• The F Major Chord

  How to play and get better at playing the F Major Chord.

• Practice the C Major Scale in Open Position

  The first scale every guitarist should learn and practice.

  m8l1-scales-c-major-open-position-exercise

• Tips on improvising for intermediate players

  Improvisation is a great way to express yourself with your instruments. The better you know your instrument the better you can improvise. In this tutorial I demonstrate some key concepts I use to help me improvise on the spanish Guitar.

  extras-johns-improvisation-primer_qtp

• Intro to Tremolo

  Here I describe the tremolo technique

  The finger pattern follows in this order:

  1. thumb
  2. ring
  3. middle
  4. index

  The thumb plays the melody or bass line the index, middle, and ring fingers play the repeated notes.

• Learn PIMAMI picking pattern

  This right hand finger picking pattern uses the thumb, index, middle and ring fingers.
  The pattern is executed in the following sequence:

  1. Thumb (P)
  2. Index (I)
  3. Middle (M)
  4. Ring (A)
  5. Middle (M)
  6. Index (I)

  usually counted in 6/8 as so:
  ONE two the FOUR five six

  m7l1-arpeggio-pimami-picking-pattern_qtp

• Strumming Pattern Practice:DDUHUDU with F and C

  Practice your right hand strumming technique while change between chords with the left hand.

• Practice the DUHU Strumming Pattern with A & E7

  Right hand strumming pattern practice using the DUHU strumming pattern on the A minor and E7 chords.

  m8l4-strumming-pattern-amin-e7-duhu_qtp

• Arpeggio Practice with PIMAMI pattern on Am & E7

  Practice this with me with out missing a beat as we switch between the A minor chord to the E7 chord. Use the right hand fingers in the following pattern:

  1. thumb (p)
  2. index (i)
  3. middle (m)
  4. ring (a)
  5. middle (m)
  6. index (i)

  The pattern can be counted like this:
  ONE two three FOUR five six

  or

  two pulse, one on beat ONE and one on beat FOUR.

  m7l3-arpeggio-pimami-am-e7-chords_qtp

• Practice the 4321-On-Off Left Hand Finger Exercise

  This Exercise works to develop basic finger Independence and agility of he left hand fingers.

  m4l5-finger-independence-4321-on-off-2-strings-60b

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