You've made it ! You are at end of stage 8.
There's only one more stage to go.
Bad news is there's a lot of stuff to do in this stage
so you now up to 50 minute a day practice routine.
Now, for many of you, that's going to be too much
so do feel free to chop it in the half
so you got two 25min practice routine
in alternating days that you are doing what.
It doesn't really matter,
there's not a specific exercise that you
should do before other ones.
So its really up to you
to choose which ones you fancy doing when.
So what have we got on the routine for this stage?
We have first of all :
memorizing notes on the thickest two strings
5 mins.
That's really important.
So now you are looking at the notes
on the 6th string and the 5th string.
All the way from the nut
all the way up to the 12th fret.
So a really good little game you can play
is just literally put a finger on a note
on one of the.. whatever fret you like
on one of the two thicker strings, and go
Oh ! What's that one ? Oh, it's a G
And up here ? oh that's a ..
count them up and go..
oh! that one is an F
oh that one.. oh.. that's a E Flat whatever
or get your friend, your jam buddy or whatever
to sit there and point to different notes
and you name them.
Really good way of doing it
5 minutes a day.
We've got next
we've got the minor pentatonic scale
and the picking exercise that I showed you
so working on the minor pentatonic scale
and really working up to doing alternate picking
doing all downs, all ups
down and up on each note
and then alternate picking 5 mins a day.
We have chord practice
still if you need it
you might not need this one
so, if all your chords are sounding really sweet now
and every note is sounding good, no buzzy stuff
you know exactly what notes you should be playing for what chord
which is possible
but I suspect most of you would still be
needing to work on that so
make sure that's in there
strum, pick out, strum, as usual.
You can decide what chords you need to work on the most.
Then we have power chords
so this time we are working on the C5 power chord,
the power chord with the 5th string root
so the most important thing again,
I know we've just talked about it,
but make sure the 6th string is muted,
dead! kill dead with the first finger. Right?
Really really important.
Practice making sure you got the stretch.
Practice moving it up and down.
Maybe play some riffs and stuff.
Lots of fun
get cracking with that one.
We have then, one minute changes
now your one minute changes
bit of a free for all this time.
You can work on doing your
C to your G chord
using one of the new G chords.
We can work on doing
the big G to the little D
I'm just checking that that is what
we did in stage 8, it was the G chord
it was the G chord sorry!
Just confusing myself.
There's a lot of lessons going on.
I wanna make sure I'm giving you the right stuff.
and then you would have three blank lessons
well..blank one minute changes where you can put in
whatever chord changes you think necessary.
Cause ???? my laptop down here
wrote with a lot of lesson plans
And this is just like : oh la la, My God,
I'm telling them a wrong thing, I was sure last time
but it's not. That's everything was good so far.
Ok. then, you should be having your
rhythm guitar practice
which is all of the patterns
you've done so far including pattern #16
which is that one where you're
hitting the base note independently.
Then you have 12bars blues rhythm
working on your chanka chanka 12 bar blues
getting that chin - kichin- kichin - kichin going on
aiming to not have any pauses between the chords
that's the big thing you're working on with there.
And just trying to get it, so, kind of groovy
and swings along nicely, that will be a really good plan.
We then have basic fingerstyle practice
I told you, there's lot going on in this level
so really working on through
getting the fingers in, you know, working a little bit
trying to make sure they are accurate
and they pick the right string at the right time.
It's a kind of preparing you up
for the next lesson really, that one.
Then we have songs and chord progressions.
So, whatever songs you are working up to now,
and just fiddling about with them,
working on them,
trying to make them sound cool,
good idea to keep on working on these songs.
At the end of this beginners course,
like next lesson again,
we'll talk a little bit more
about the emphasis of songs
but for now, just still 5min a day
working on your songs.
And lastly, you've got your optional
5 mins JUSTIN training exercises
which is about ear development
working on your ear
trying to recognize your chord sounds
and some of your rhythms as well now
so that stuff is getting a bit more advanced
but that's explained in a separate lesson for that.
So I hope you are having fun with all of this
that's a lot of work you got on this time for this stage
so expect to be on this stage
for a little while, alright?
Don't be rushing it.
Much better to be able to do
a few things really well
than to be able to do a lot of things badly.
So just be cool, practice hard
keep working at it
working regular practice
all that stuff
and I'll see you when you're ready
to meet me in stage nine !
the final chapter !