Mel Bay Study Group The Mel Bay Method For Guitar According To "The Principles" Checkpoint #2, Page#16... Amazing Grace & Tenting Tonight |
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After "The Principles",the metronome is the most important practice tool you can use. Used as shown in " The Principles", it will increase your rate of progress faster than anything else. Click below for further info:
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Here is what most students do wrong at this point: Problem: They don't have control and accuracy over the alternate picking. They don't do down-up picking on the eighth notes, and they don't know they are doing it wrong. If they DO the down-up picking, they usually mess it up, lose the beat, hit a wrong string, etc. Solution: Review all the directions for doing a correct down pick, and a correct up pick, especially the up pick (p.53). Make sure you are able to do the Right Hand String Shifting Exercise, step 3 (p.38) with perfect accuracy. Hitting the wrong string, or missing the note is due to tension in the hand and/or upper arm. Deepening the bottom of your practice by paying much greater attention and more effectively using no-tempo practice and the Basic Practice Approach in general is the answer here.
Problem: The final result of being able to play the song accurately, to a steady beat, is never actually reached. Instead, the student plays the piece with many mistakes and hesitations along the way. Usually, the page is turned anyway! Solution: After proper use of the Basic Practice Approach to train all necessary movements into the muscles, the transition to the actual rhythm should be made by playing one or two measures at a time to the EXPANDED BEAT. This means putting the metronome on something slow, like 50, and assigning two clicks for every beat. The first click represents the down beat, the second click the upbeat. The foot must tap down on the first click and up on the second click. (There will be eight clicks per measure, but the foot will tap four). Two measures at a time, work this up to 120. Then, go back to 50, and play as written, with one click per beat, and the foot tapping 4 per measure.
On To Mel Bay Checkpoint 3................. |
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