June 11th, 2013

These are notes from one of my Guitar Lessons.

I had the chord shape wrong. That probably contributed to how difficult it was to practice. Here's the correct chord shape.

I was also only playing 1/4 of the notes in the twelve bars blues. I was playing 1 strum per measure and I should have been playing 4 strums per measure. Each character or slash is a measure.

Here are the notes in the key of G.

G / / / C / G / D C G D

Here's the variation that I practiced.

G / / / C / G / D / G /

So, you play the G chord 16 times to complete the first 4 measures in both of those progressions.

This is a pattern we played in the key of E. Plucking the first two notes on the 6th string and letting it ring while we improvise from the Pentatonic scale. Anything that sounds good to you is fair game.

1 | --- --- -15 -15 -12 --- -12 |
2 | --- --- --- --- --- -15 --- |
3 | --- --- --- --- --- --- --- |
4 | --- --- --- --- --- --- --- |
5 | --- --- --- --- --- --- --- |
6 | -3- -0- --- --- --- --- --- |

The same thing in the key of A.

1 | --- --- -6- -6- -3- --- -3- |
2 | --- --- --- --- --- -6- --- |
3 | --- --- --- --- --- --- --- |
4 | --- --- --- --- --- --- --- |
5 | -3- -0- --- --- --- --- --- |
6 | --- --- --- --- --- --- --- |