This is the last post of my blog for this semester, and as such I thought I would just review all I know and go through that chord chart of the necessary chords one more time and play through each chord. I found it incredibly hard to play the 7th chords in isolation as I …
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Week 15 – Left over chords
I’m almost at the end of this semester, so I think it’s time just to polish up what I don’t know so I can be ready for the assesment. I know all the major and minor chords now, and as a result of learning a song a week I have learnt most of the 7th …
Week 14 – Convenient Chord Shapes
As the name of this weeks post suggests, today in KAME we were wrapping up the course with some usefull tips and tricks for playing our instruments, and one of these came in the form of very useful chord shapes. Basically, if you keep the top 2 fingers down from the G chord and play …
Week 13 – 4 Chords
In KAME today we did a battle of the bands thing, where we split into 2 groups and made our own 4 chord song, based off the 4 chord song by Axis of Awesome. Aside from it being really enjoyable, I think it was extremely useful as an excersise to do with a high school …
Week 12 – Chords into something beautiful
I love watching Paul Davids’ videos on his guitar playing, and ages back I saw this video of his called “Turn those same old chords into something beautiful” where he basically arpegiated chords and added a melody, but it sounded really good. I figured as the semester is drawing to a close and I’m fairly …
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Week 11 – The Last Goodbye
This was a big week for me, as this week I decided to serve a mission for the next 2 years (aslong as it can be worked out logistically so I can be back for uni in 2022), and as such I figured that I wanted to do a piece that fit this idea this …
Week 10 – Long Run
A couple of weeks ago I did the last frontier by Redgum, and I decided I would play another one of their songs this week, a more upbeat song called Long Run. This song didn’t really teach me anything new, but I’m at the point now where I’m fairly comfortable with what I know, I …
Week 9 – Shotgun
When I was finding the new songs last week I also stumbled on this recording of Shotgun, originaly by George Ezra but this version was done by Luke James Shaffer I thought this version sounded pretty cool and the concept of trying to make my own loops was intriguing so I thought I would try …
Week 8 – Hearts on fire
I was going down the rabbit hole that is youtube this week, in my attempts to find music to listen to, and I stumbled accross this recording of hearts on fire by Passenger, sung with Ed Sheeran. I’ve always liked the song when it is sung by only passenger but I forgot about it for …
Week 7 – Days like this
In high school, I was part of a Ska ensemble that a few of my friends and a teacher I quite liked started. I played bari sax and because of the low difficulty of ska music (for the horn section atleast) I often spent the time that the rhythm section used to rehearse their little …
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