practice
It is much easier to play a thing quickly than to play it slowly.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
Letter, 1778
Teaching and Learning - exercises that help develop guitar technique and musicality.
Listening Position - both hands flat, resting on top of the guitar.
Warm Up - an activity to prepare the mind and hands for playing guitar or singing.
Practice - regular time set aside to develop musical skills.
Listen and Copy - the teacher plays a note pattern and the student tries to copy it.
Listen and Remember - listening to music and then playing it from memory.
Loop Practice - playing a small section of a tune in a repeating pattern in order to perfect it.
Listening Position - both hands flat, resting on top of the guitar.
Warm Up - an activity to prepare the mind and hands for playing guitar or singing.
Practice - regular time set aside to develop musical skills.
Listen and Copy - the teacher plays a note pattern and the student tries to copy it.
Listen and Remember - listening to music and then playing it from memory.
Loop Practice - playing a small section of a tune in a repeating pattern in order to perfect it.
warm up
Warm Up - an activity to prepare the mind and hands for playing guitar or singing.
Reasons and method for the instrumental warm up:
Identify scale and arpeggio patterns in the pieces. (Grade 3)
Question: How do you warm up for a piece like this?
Answer: By playing a selection of scales and arpeggios in related keys.
Reasons and method for the instrumental warm up:
- To establish good coordination between the left and right hands, i.e. the synchronisation of the pressing of the string and the plucking of the note.
- To warm up muscles and loosen up fingers.
- To focus on relaxation of whole body and establish good playing posture.
- To focus on the techniques used in the pieces one is working on…i.e. *arpeggios or scales or chords or slurs etc.
Identify scale and arpeggio patterns in the pieces. (Grade 3)
Question: How do you warm up for a piece like this?
Answer: By playing a selection of scales and arpeggios in related keys.
