St Augustine: "To sing is to pray twice."

Lesson 4

Strap locks, a guitars best friend. Electric & Acoustic

5 Minutes a day on all 6 strings straight across the neck

Power Chord

A power chord is made of two different notes with no major or minor quality to it, and uses the number 5 to indicate a power chord.

Chords to learn for next song

The # symbol universally indicates a sharp note. It tells a player to sound a pitch half a tone higher than the written note. For instance, this image indicates the note C#

Palm Muting

Palm muting is a technique where the strings are muted with the palm of the picking hand, producing a muffled sound. The palm is lightly rested on the strings where they meet the bridge.

The Dotted Quarter Note

A tie is a curved line that connects two notes of the same pitch. A tie means to hold the note for the combined rhythmic value of the two notes, as if they were one

Tied Notes

Use a pencil and table top to tap out these rhythms below for Tied & Dotted Note Practice

This little practice chart uses "rhythmic notation". Notice the shape of the note heads are different and every note is on one line.

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