Lesson 54 Tuesday 11th February 2014

This lesson again I started with the Oasis song “The Importance of Being Idle”.

I started off with the intro.

  

Again my changes from chords are very slow and it does not flow. My teacher made me slow the pace. When I did that if gave me a chance to change the chords at a more comfortable pace and not sound so bad.

I then went through the Rhythm of the song.

I had been practicing this all week but probably because I was rushing through it I had adopted a slightly different rhythm. I obviously have not got my ear in on the rhythm so I needed to take a bit of time getting it right.

I played through the rhythm a few times. My main problem was that I was not getting the chord B7 correct and the change to E was very slow. We practiced a while again slowing down the speed so that I am playing more smoothly.

We then had a look at the chorus.

This is played in two bar chords.

Playing these chords is hard enough but I have to sort of mute the sound by taking my fingers off slightly then putting them back down again to play the next strum. This is proving very difficult.

I finally looked at the songs riff part that I had practiced.

At first I was one string too high and it sounded very strange. Once I was playing on the correct strings the tune sounded correct but I need to get the sort of bounce that you hear in the song.

Plenty of parts to practice.

Lesson 54 Tuesday 4th February 2014

I started off the lesson with the Oasis song “Importance of being Idle” intro.

I had been practicing this for a while now and have got the idea of the palm mute but the change from Am to Em is very slow.

I then went onto have a go at the main rhythm of the song.

I had been practicing this rhythm at home. Unfortunately it still is early days for me and the change from the different chords is very slow and I sometimes miss the strings.

My teacher went through the rhythm and we slowed it down so I could get the changes much better. As usual the rhythm appears to be the main area where I have the problem with too many or not enough ups and downs.

After a while of playing slower I did find that the changes linked a much better.

For the final part of the lesson we had a quick look at the solo riff.

We only looked at the first part of the solo before the bending. As to be expected my first few goes through this does not sound nothing like the solo. I will have to practice more to get the flow of the solo.