This week we decided to do things a little bit differently. We decided to do our videos separately because Sophia wants to learn more about rhythm and hearing and feeling the music. Where I am trying to figure out the best way to be able to perform a song. It has left me feeling like this dog

I will start with Sophia’s videos. As I mentioned, she is trying to listen to the music and essentially she is trying to mimic the sound that she hears. She has a long ways to go in my opinion but I think it is very important to start to train your ear to the music. This is an area that I have always struggled with. I have two videos of her, one may not work because it has been blocked by YouTube because it was so similar to the original….

This is the one that was blocked. Seems to be working.

I have been finding that there is so much more to playing songs than just strumming and changing cords. Lots of songs have different picking patterns involved in them so I decided to try and work on that aspect. To do that I found some “riffs” to work on. This is basically easy picking patterns that create part of a song that is often repeated multiple times. I decided not to edit out my mistakes because I think it is important to see the struggle. Unfortunately that means the video is pretty long. See if you can guess the 3 songs that I am playing. I give little hints throughout the video.

I hope you enjoyed the videos this week. Below is the video that I used to learn the different riffs.