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.

Lesson 53 Tuesday 28th January 2014

We started off this week by going through the Oasis Song "The Importance of Being Idle".
I showed how much progress I had made with the intro that I was shown last week.

My attempts where very slow and it is not flowing very well at the moment and there was a few times I forgot to palm mute too. But on a positive note I did hit the right chords.

We had a few goes through this and after awhile it did flow a bit better.

My teacher then showed me the main rhythm.

It took me awhile to get this rhythm correct but after a few goes I got close if not very slowly. This rhythm is used with four bars of the chord Am then one bar of chords Fmaj7 and C.
The sequence is then finished off with B7 and E in a slightly different rhythm.

Again I could piece it all together but it needs a lot of work on.

The final part of the lesson I showed How well or not well I was getting on with the Intro to the Oasis song "Wonderwall".

It is getting there but I am changing too soon or too late so I need to look at that.

A great lesson with my hour going past far too quickly.

Lesson 52 Tuesday 21st January 2014

This week I had been practising a lot on the Intro from Oasis "Wonderwall". It has been a real pain as I would practise it every day. But come practise the next day I would forget everything and it would sound rubbish.

So the start of my lesson we had a look at Oasis "Wonderwall".

My first times at doing this would fall apart when I would get to either the chord Dsus4 or the start of A7sus4.

As the first part was going OK my teacher decided it was best to focus on the second part.
The second part I kept adding in too many down strokes when I would get to the A7sus4. After a few false starts I did start to get it. We then put both bits together and I did actually play all the way through it. I played it a few times to make sure it was not a fluke. Even though I did get to play through it a few times it was not flowing for me at this moment in time.

We then looked at starting a new song again by Oasis called "The Importance of Being Idle".



We just started off with the intro.

My teacher showed me how it was done with the palm mute.

My first go at it I could get the first Am but the second section I was putting in too many down strokes. Also the change to the Em was not very quick. The Am chord also was not clean as I kept on muting the second string with I think finger three.

When I got home that night I played my new bit I had learnt and asked my wife if she knew what it was. She had not idea. Looks like I need to practise more on this then.