Last week was the second week of Melody Making lessons and WOW your submissions on the the SPJ Community have been awesome! Everyone (yes, everyone) should be proud of the melodies they are writing. This week we'll be diving a little deeper into melody making, so if you haven't watch the past two weeks of livestreams, I recommend that you catch up before watching this one.
Post your homework assignments here, on the patreon forum.
Read MoreLast week was the first week of melody making lessons! We went over some simple melody making "rules" and this week we'll be building on those foundational skills. Watch last week's live stream here if you'd like to get caught up!
Post your homework assignments here, on the patreon forum.
Read MoreI'll start the stream with exciting updates and talk a little bit about the homework from last month. Then I'll reveal the theme for this month, give a lesson on it, and pass out your homework assignment for the week! Next week we'll build on the skills you practice this week. After the lesson I'll be available for questions! First, questions about the homework, then whatever questions you have!
Read MoreI uploaded a new version of this lesson with a message at the end because we had a technical issue with the audio at about the 1hr mark! This was a fun livestream talking about using movable chord shapes (ala Rubik's Cube) with the 7 chord progressions we came up with this month! If you need to catch up, check out the previous weeks:
Have fun watching this one and please submit homework and questions to the livestream discussion post.
Read MoreThanks again for being here. I'm so so grateful for YOU. Yes you. I hope you're enjoying your time here and I hope you feel excited to pick up your guitar every day.
This "live!" is the third week of chord progression homework. If you've just joined, here are the links to the last two weeks of chord progression homework. We're gently building layers of complexity for each week of homework, so I'd recommend watching week one and week two!
Week one: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39112891
Week two: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tune-in-today-at-39334605
Read MoreHi Everyone!
It's Wednesday which now means its livestream homework assignment day! From now on, I'll have a homework assignment every Wednesday. If you can't catch it, I'll link it here within an hour or two afterward so you can watch it later!
I'll have updates about what lessons are coming up and I'll assign some new homework related to last weeks chord progression homework. Then it'll be a Q&A session with whoever is watching about whatever questions you might have.
I hope you can join! Catch up on last weeks homework assignment so you're ready for the next layer!
Read MoreHi Everyone!
This is big news. From now on I'm going to have a weekly livestream every Wednesday. I'll hand out some homework at the beginning of every month, and every week I'll check in on the progress, talk about more ways to explore the homework, and possibly feature a few choice examples of completed assignments.
I want to stress the importance of not just absorbing and watching these lessons, but really spending time getting to know things. The videos I've been making for this community are designed for you to really spend time practicing and understanding, so I thought a central weekly video to tie things together ought to be a fun and useful idea.
Check in each Wednesday this month for more different ways to make and manipulate chord progressions.
Read MoreI talk about how the CAGED soloing concepts turn the penta shapes into other shapes and how to think about that, especially when soloing over progressions. I address a few Patron questions about the topic and a few about related topics.
Read MoreI'm still feeling out the format but my rough plan was to answer YouTube chat questions and also sift through Patreon for questions I can tackle. I also think these could be nice weekly check-in's for things like video questions from patrons. There is so much potential its exciting, but this one.... I'm just going to feel it out and let it be organic. We'll learn how to do this together!
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