Whoa! Things are getting pretty nice around here as we take a look at our strumming hand. This almost feels like a country version of a Bob Marley song and why not? This is social music and anything goes! We’re taking the songs and making them our own. We’re continuing to build a solid foundation with our strumming so you know there’s going to be talk of alternating bass notes and slowing things down to get that even tempo and feel. But there’s more! We’ll consider the context and think about what was going on with Bob Marley when he sang this song. It’s one thing to sing the song and it’s another thing to get inside the song. For that we need to go deep with the lyrics. In this lesson I’ll also be talking about language and how we can reinforce positive (or negative) feelings about our abilities. The things we tell ourselves really do have an effect on our ability to learn. Overall, there are some tangents in this lesson but it’s social music and means there’s going to be some hanging out time and hanging out talk!

Dan

 

 

 

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Guitar