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Beginner Lessons

26/2/2018

 
PLAY-ALONG VIDEOS
All arrangements created by Jon Russell.
  • DEBUT CHORDS (Beginner chord shapes and strumming)

The Guitarist's Way - Book 2

20/2/2018

 
NOTE-NAMING EXERCISES
The following exercises were created to help improve music reading skills as you progress through the book.
All exercises were created using musictheory.net and if using a tablet, make sure you click “Use Web Version”.
  • Notes on String 4: DEF (Pg. 3)
  • Notes on String 5: ABC (Pg. 4)
  • Bass Notes: EFGABCDEF (Pg. 8)
  • Full First Position
  • Fifth Position: CDEFGABC (Pg. 14/15)

PLAY-ALONG TRACKS
Click the following links for mp3 play-along versions to songs you’re learning in the book.
All arrangements written and created by Jon Russell.
  1. Pease Pudding Hot
  2. London's Burning
  3. Chant
  4. Study
  5. Got the Blues
  6. La Mantovana
  7. Scale of C Major
  8. Frere Jacques
  9. The Star
  10. Polish Dance/On The March
  11. Ex. 21
  12. Gypsy Dance
  13. Chromatic Scale
  14. The Worm
  15. Scale of G Major
  16. New World Theme/Ex. 29
  17. Second Position Study
  18. Drunken Sailor/Sailor's Reel
  19. Blues Scales
  20. Night Flight
  21. Symphony Theme
  22. Toccata/Accompaniment

The Guitarist’s Way - Book 1

14/2/2018

 
NOTE-NAMING EXERCISES
The following exercises were created to help improve music reading skills as you progress through the book.
All exercises were created using musictheory.net and if using a tablet, make sure you click “Use Web Version”.
  • ​Lines and Spaces
  • Six Note Dictionary (GABCDE)
  • Eight Note Dictionary (GABCDEFG)

PLAY-ALONG TRACKS
Click the following links for mp3 play-along versions to songs you’re learning in the book.
All arrangements written and created by Jon Russell.
  1. Drunken Sailor
  2. Three Notes
  3. Folk Song
  4. Up From G
  5. The Fiddler
  6. Dutch Folk Song
  7. Shape of You (Ed Sheeran)
  8. Chinese Tune
  9. Merrily
  10. I Gotta Feeling (Black Eyed Peas)
  11. The Ladder
  12. Morning Mood
  13. At the Show
  14. The Star
  15. La Bergamasca
  16. German Folk Song
  17. In the Moonlight/First String Melody
  18. Good King Wenceslas
  19. Aunt Rhody
  20. The Tallis Canon
  21. Oh When the Saints
  22. In the Deep
  23. Needing a Rest/Jungle
  24. Fingers and Thumb
  25. Song of the Mountains
  26. Carnival
  27. Spanish Dance
  28. Ukraine Folk Song

Music Theory in Practice

14/2/2018

 
Click the following links for some exercises relating to ABRSM music theory exams.
All exercises were created using musictheory.net and if using a tablet, make sure you click “Use Web Version”.

GRADE 1
  • The Treble Clef (Pg. 8)
  • The Bass Clef (Pg. 8)
  • Key Signatures (Pg. 16)
  • Intervals (Pg. 20)

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