Step 1. Listen to the Melody + Harmony Step 2. Stream/Download the Harmony over and over until you can sing it Step 3. Play the Melody and sing the Harmony over it Step 4. Sing it with somebody else
I’ve made this booklet “Warmups & Such” that you can print out. I think it will be really handy for warming up your fingers before a play. It includes:
Simple scales (pentatonic / major / minor)
Strumming patterns
Chords (Power chords / major & minor barre chords)
Changing keys
Fingerpicking patterns
I made a Youtube video (above) of how to print and make the book, then how to practice with it. Click here to download the .pdf.
Things are happening again! I have my new toy – the Zoom Q8, and I’ve already released some videos using it. I love it because you can hear the sounds of Western Australia’s nature. I can’t wait to do some recordings at the beach, maybe do some sunrise episodes. Really exciting!
I was only able to afford it because some people were really kind enough to donate, and to those few people, thank you times a million.
My next project is: A Pogues Songbook – it’s about 90% complete, includes 22 of The Pogues greatest songs, complete with tabs for the solos and melodies. I also want to do a whole Youtube section where each song has a link to a lesson.
After that, I’ve also created a Uke By The Glass Songbooklet, and I’ll be starting those classes soon. The booklet will be available for download soon. That has 17 songs, all with a difficulty rating on them, so you can start with the easiest if you’re a beginner.
Things have been quite slow with the online part of Guitar By The Glass. There have been no podcasts and only few YouTube lessons in the past few months.
I’ve been saving for a new video camera and microphone that will make it a lot easier for me to record and post lessons. Even more exciting to me if they I’ll be able to record on location at the beautiful places I love to go around Western Australia.
So I’ve been saving up my pennies, and hopefully in a month I’ll have my new toys to play with.
Guitar By The Glad has been going tremendously well. The sessions at the pub have been packed every week. We have a new additional monthly session at a beautiful winery in the hills (Fairbrossen)that I’m forward to building up. And we almost have a fourth guitar song book.
