This week's (very personal and insightful) summary, courtesy of Mehri Behroezi:
Hello everyone,
Last Tuesday we had this special guest, Otto Cepella, who taught us many useful things and helped us out with some struggle issues .
First of all, now that we all know about the basic parts of a guitar, it’s handy to give some tips about how to hold your guitar. When playing the guitar sitting down, the body of the guitar will rest on one of your legs. When someone playing the guitar in a lefty manner will rest it on their left leg also.
Awareness and attitude:
Desire, Attention and Awareness are the three things you must understand in order to begin your journey toward getting as good as you want to be on the guitar, each leads to the other.
Techniques:
There are several notation symbols appearing in tab notation. This is how the guitarist should play them. The most usual guitar techniques are: Bend, Vibrato, Tapping, Hammer, Pull-off etc…
Beginners strumming patterns is as follow. First make sure your guitar is in tune. using your fretting hand, from a G major chord on the neck. Making sure you are holding your pick properly, practice playing the example that Otto gave us, which is a basic on bar strumming pattern. Alternate between strumming down, and strumming up. When you get done playing the example once than loop it. Count out: 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and over again.
How to learn a new chord fingering:
There is usually a pattern to learning new chord shapes. First you learn the fingering and then you memorize the fingering by practicing the new shape you just learned. Once you remember it you practice applying it quickly. Then you start messing around with it and somewhere along the way, the chord shape become natural automatic. An important stage in this is eventually you learn to recognize the chords. Once you hear it played, you know it’s the particular shape.
CAGED System:
The CAGED system is an idea that is based on the relationship between common major chord and major scale shapes. If you can easily find the notes on the 5th and 6th strings of the guitar then all it takes is a bit practice with the CAGED system and you will be able to find any major chords tone very easily anywhere. As you remember Otto draw us the CAGED system and how to use this system. If you don’t remember it anymore I would say look on internet and you will got a lot of explanations about CAGED system.
Smooth transition:
You have to make sure that your final is positioned in a way you don’t need to move your hand as much. For example if you play a A-major and need to start the solo in the 5th position, don’t play an open A. first Visualize, than execute and finally lighten up. Do some looping, like this you not only can get a great sound with looping, but it is also one of the best ways to get better at timing and rhythm.
At the final we want to thank Otto for this great performances and handy tips that he gave us. I think it was a very useful lesson. Also a special thank to Rafael who give us his time, energy and talent to teach us. Thank you so much.
Hello everyone,
Last Tuesday we had this special guest, Otto Cepella, who taught us many useful things and helped us out with some struggle issues .
First of all, now that we all know about the basic parts of a guitar, it’s handy to give some tips about how to hold your guitar. When playing the guitar sitting down, the body of the guitar will rest on one of your legs. When someone playing the guitar in a lefty manner will rest it on their left leg also.
Awareness and attitude:
Desire, Attention and Awareness are the three things you must understand in order to begin your journey toward getting as good as you want to be on the guitar, each leads to the other.
Techniques:
There are several notation symbols appearing in tab notation. This is how the guitarist should play them. The most usual guitar techniques are: Bend, Vibrato, Tapping, Hammer, Pull-off etc…
Beginners strumming patterns is as follow. First make sure your guitar is in tune. using your fretting hand, from a G major chord on the neck. Making sure you are holding your pick properly, practice playing the example that Otto gave us, which is a basic on bar strumming pattern. Alternate between strumming down, and strumming up. When you get done playing the example once than loop it. Count out: 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and over again.
How to learn a new chord fingering:
There is usually a pattern to learning new chord shapes. First you learn the fingering and then you memorize the fingering by practicing the new shape you just learned. Once you remember it you practice applying it quickly. Then you start messing around with it and somewhere along the way, the chord shape become natural automatic. An important stage in this is eventually you learn to recognize the chords. Once you hear it played, you know it’s the particular shape.
CAGED System:
The CAGED system is an idea that is based on the relationship between common major chord and major scale shapes. If you can easily find the notes on the 5th and 6th strings of the guitar then all it takes is a bit practice with the CAGED system and you will be able to find any major chords tone very easily anywhere. As you remember Otto draw us the CAGED system and how to use this system. If you don’t remember it anymore I would say look on internet and you will got a lot of explanations about CAGED system.
Smooth transition:
You have to make sure that your final is positioned in a way you don’t need to move your hand as much. For example if you play a A-major and need to start the solo in the 5th position, don’t play an open A. first Visualize, than execute and finally lighten up. Do some looping, like this you not only can get a great sound with looping, but it is also one of the best ways to get better at timing and rhythm.
At the final we want to thank Otto for this great performances and handy tips that he gave us. I think it was a very useful lesson. Also a special thank to Rafael who give us his time, energy and talent to teach us. Thank you so much.
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