{"id":749,"date":"2012-03-30T20:44:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T20:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2012-03-30T20:44:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T20:44:48","slug":"totally-guitars-lessons-weekly-wrap-up-mar-30th-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/tg-blogs\/guitar-news\/totally-guitars-lessons-weekly-wrap-up-mar-30th-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Totally Guitars Lessons Weekly Wrap Up Mar 30th, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Totally Guitars Lessons Wrap Up Mar 30th, 2012\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DbGyaXnOpG0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>March 30, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Our Target releases this week included a little more Slack Key, a<br \/>\nguitar take on a piano classic, an ear training exercise on a tune<br \/>\nfrom the Psychedelic era, reviews of Student Uploads featuring Doc<br \/>\nWatson and Eva Cassidy, and Fly On The Wall videos covering a basic<br \/>\nTheory Review and another look at a tune from the movie Crazy Heart.<\/p>\n<p>We started the week with a fingerpicking accompaniment version of<br \/>\nElton John&#8217;s Your Song. This used some chord inversions common in<br \/>\npiano songs but not so much in guitar songs. We followed that with a<br \/>\nlook at Radio Hula, a popular Hawaiian song from the early days of<br \/>\nradio. This is styled a bit after the playing of Slack Key legend<br \/>\nLedward Kaapann and done in Open G Tuning. At the end of the week we<br \/>\nbroke out our &#8216;Work It Out&#8217; version of Mellow Yellow by Donovan. This<br \/>\nis a basic 3-chord song so using it as an ear training exercise seemed<br \/>\nlike a good idea. There is also a chord solo segment that works on<br \/>\npicking out the melody.<\/p>\n<p>Our Student Reviews this week included looks at Doc&#8217;s Guitar, by Doc<br \/>\nWatson, and Paul Simon&#8217;s Kathy&#8217;s Song, as arranged by Eva Cassidy.<\/p>\n<p>We also had a great Basic Theory Review with my returning student<br \/>\nDoug. We went over a lot of important building blocks in the<br \/>\nfundamentals department. Our second live in the studio lesson went<br \/>\ninto the picking pattern used in The Weary Kind. I hope everybody<br \/>\nchecks out our Fly On The Wall videos once in a while.<\/p>\n<p>Next week- a little John Fahey, I hope.<\/p>\n<p>Stay Tuned &amp; In Touch,<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 30, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Our Target releases this week included a little more Slack Key, a<br \/>\nguitar take on a piano classic, an ear training exercise on a tune<br \/>\nfrom the Psychedelic era, reviews of Student Uploads featuring Doc<br \/>\nWatson and Eva Cassidy, and Fly On The Wall videos covering a basic<br \/>\nTheory Review and another look at a tune from the movie Crazy Heart.<\/p>\n<p>We started the week with a fingerpicking accompaniment version of<br \/>\nElton John&#8217;s Your Song. This used some chord inversions common in<br \/>\npiano songs but not so much in guitar songs. 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