0:00:03.573,0:00:06.563 You've made it ! You are at end of stage 8. 0:00:06.563,0:00:08.959 There's only one more stage to go. 0:00:08.959,0:00:11.663 Bad news is there's a lot of stuff to do in this stage 0:00:11.663,0:00:15.622 so you now up to 50 minute a day practice routine. 0:00:15.622,0:00:17.842 Now, for many of you, that's going to be too much 0:00:17.842,0:00:20.110 so do feel free to chop it in the half 0:00:20.110,0:00:22.644 so you got two 25min practice routine 0:00:22.644,0:00:24.948 in alternating days that you are doing what. 0:00:24.948,0:00:26.151 It doesn't really matter, 0:00:26.151,0:00:27.790 there's not a specific exercise that you 0:00:27.790,0:00:29.437 should do before other ones. 0:00:29.437,0:00:30.799 So its really up to you 0:00:30.799,0:00:32.819 to choose which ones you fancy doing when. 0:00:32.819,0:00:35.772 So what have we got on the routine for this stage? 0:00:35.772,0:00:37.064 We have first of all : 0:00:37.064,0:00:39.634 memorizing notes on the thickest two strings 0:00:39.634,0:00:40.758 5 mins. 0:00:40.758,0:00:41.824 That's really important. 0:00:41.824,0:00:43.311 So now you are looking at the notes 0:00:43.311,0:00:45.262 on the 6th string and the 5th string. 0:00:45.262,0:00:45.980 All the way from the nut 0:00:45.980,0:00:47.880 all the way up to the 12th fret. 0:00:47.880,0:00:50.564 So a really good little game you can play 0:00:50.733,0:00:52.881 is just literally put a finger on a note 0:00:52.881,0:00:54.853 on one of the.. whatever fret you like 0:00:54.853,0:00:56.721 on one of the two thicker strings, and go 0:00:56.721,0:00:58.036 Oh ! What's that one ? Oh, it's a G 0:00:58.036,0:00:59.886 And up here ? oh that's a .. 0:00:59.886,0:01:02.169 count them up and go.. 0:01:02.169,0:01:03.339 oh! that one is an F 0:01:03.339,0:01:05.655 oh that one.. oh.. that's a E Flat whatever 0:01:05.685,0:01:07.833 or get your friend, your jam buddy or whatever 0:01:07.833,0:01:09.740 to sit there and point to different notes 0:01:09.740,0:01:10.678 and you name them. 0:01:10.678,0:01:11.875 Really good way of doing it 0:01:11.875,0:01:13.068 5 minutes a day. 0:01:13.068,0:01:14.111 We've got next 0:01:14.111,0:01:15.632 we've got the minor pentatonic scale 0:01:15.632,0:01:17.875 and the picking exercise that I showed you 0:01:17.875,0:01:19.634 so working on the minor pentatonic scale 0:01:19.634,0:01:22.312 and really working up to doing alternate picking 0:01:22.312,0:01:23.893 doing all downs, all ups 0:01:23.893,0:01:25.149 down and up on each note 0:01:25.149,0:01:27.354 and then alternate picking 5 mins a day. 0:01:27.354,0:01:28.986 We have chord practice 0:01:28.986,0:01:30.366 still if you need it 0:01:30.366,0:01:31.750 you might not need this one 0:01:31.750,0:01:34.201 so, if all your chords are sounding really sweet now 0:01:34.212,0:01:36.452 and every note is sounding good, no buzzy stuff 0:01:36.452,0:01:39.317 you know exactly what notes [br]you should be playing for what chord 0:01:39.318,0:01:41.066 which is possible 0:01:41.066,0:01:43.510 but I suspect most of you would still be 0:01:43.510,0:01:44.635 needing to work on that so 0:01:44.635,0:01:46.053 make sure that's in there 0:01:46.053,0:01:48.021 strum, pick out, strum, as usual. 0:01:48.021,0:01:50.370 You can decide what chords you need to work on the most. 0:01:50.370,0:01:52.548 Then we have power chords 0:01:52.548,0:01:57.370 so this time we are working on the C5 power chord, 0:01:57.375,0:01:59.804 the power chord with the 5th string root 0:01:59.804,0:02:01.366 so the most important thing again, 0:02:01.366,0:02:02.777 I know we've just talked about it, 0:02:02.777,0:02:05.049 but make sure the 6th string is muted, 0:02:05.049,0:02:07.056 dead! kill dead with the first finger. Right? 0:02:07.056,0:02:08.572 Really really important. 0:02:08.572,0:02:10.537 Practice making sure you got the stretch. 0:02:10.537,0:02:12.119 Practice moving it up and down. 0:02:12.119,0:02:13.706 Maybe play some riffs and stuff. 0:02:13.706,0:02:14.781 Lots of fun 0:02:14.781,0:02:16.138 get cracking with that one. 0:02:16.138,0:02:18.182 We have then, one minute changes 0:02:18.182,0:02:20.232 now your one minute changes 0:02:20.232,0:02:21.844 bit of a free for all this time. 0:02:21.844,0:02:23.457 You can work on doing your 0:02:23.457,0:02:26.490 C to your G chord 0:02:26.490,0:02:29.331 using one of the new G chords. 0:02:29.331,0:02:30.545 We can work on doing 0:02:30.545,0:02:34.256 the big G to the little D 0:02:34.256,0:02:36.373 I'm just checking that that is what 0:02:36.373,0:02:39.370 we did in stage 8, it was the G chord 0:02:39.370,0:02:40.623 it was the G chord sorry! 0:02:40.623,0:02:41.734 Just confusing myself. 0:02:41.734,0:02:42.989 There's a lot of lessons going on. 0:02:42.989,0:02:44.894 I wanna make sure I'm giving you the right stuff. 0:02:44.894,0:02:47.835 and then you would have three blank lessons 0:02:48.189,0:02:50.854 well..blank one minute changes where you can put in 0:02:50.854,0:02:53.121 whatever chord changes you think necessary. 0:02:53.121,0:02:54.479 Cause ???? my laptop down here 0:02:54.479,0:02:55.655 wrote with a lot of lesson plans 0:02:55.655,0:02:56.740 And this is just like : oh la la, My God, 0:02:56.740,0:02:58.590 I'm telling them a wrong thing, I was sure last time 0:02:58.590,0:03:00.999 but it's not. That's everything was good so far. 0:03:00.999,0:03:03.932 Ok. then, you should be having your 0:03:03.932,0:03:05.142 rhythm guitar practice 0:03:05.142,0:03:06.357 which is all of the patterns 0:03:06.357,0:03:08.243 you've done so far including pattern #16 0:03:08.243,0:03:09.643 which is that one where you're 0:03:09.643,0:03:11.530 hitting the base note independently. 0:03:11.530,0:03:13.523 Then you have 12bars blues rhythm 0:03:13.523,0:03:16.084 working on your chanka chanka 12 bar blues 0:03:16.134,0:03:18.850 getting that chin - kichin- kichin - kichin going on 0:03:18.865,0:03:21.787 aiming to not have any pauses between the chords 0:03:21.787,0:03:23.572 that's the big thing you're working on with there. 0:03:23.572,0:03:25.849 And just trying to get it, so, kind of groovy 0:03:25.849,0:03:28.579 and swings along nicely, [br]that will be a really good plan. 0:03:28.579,0:03:31.270 We then have basic fingerstyle practice 0:03:31.270,0:03:33.699 I told you, there's lot going on in this level 0:03:33.699,0:03:35.483 so really working on through 0:03:35.483,0:03:38.264 getting the fingers in, you know, working a little bit 0:03:38.264,0:03:39.913 trying to make sure they are accurate 0:03:39.913,0:03:42.076 and they pick the right string at the right time. 0:03:42.076,0:03:43.487 It's a kind of preparing you up 0:03:43.487,0:03:45.140 for the next lesson really, that one. 0:03:45.140,0:03:47.161 Then we have songs and chord progressions. 0:03:47.161,0:03:48.740 So, whatever songs you are working up to now, 0:03:48.740,0:03:50.825 and just fiddling about with them, 0:03:50.825,0:03:51.582 working on them, 0:03:51.582,0:03:53.007 trying to make them sound cool, 0:03:53.007,0:03:55.039 good idea to keep on working on these songs. 0:03:55.039,0:03:56.717 At the end of this beginners course, 0:03:56.717,0:03:57.632 like next lesson again, 0:03:57.632,0:03:58.858 we'll talk a little bit more 0:03:58.858,0:04:00.674 about the emphasis of songs 0:04:00.674,0:04:02.378 but for now, just still 5min a day 0:04:02.378,0:04:03.201 working on your songs. 0:04:03.201,0:04:05.453 And lastly, you've got your optional 0:04:05.453,0:04:06.904 5 mins JUSTIN training exercises 0:04:06.904,0:04:09.217 which is about ear development 0:04:09.217,0:04:10.257 working on your ear 0:04:10.257,0:04:11.777 trying to recognize your chord sounds 0:04:11.777,0:04:13.699 and some of your rhythms as well now 0:04:13.699,0:04:15.626 so that stuff is getting a bit more advanced 0:04:15.626,0:04:17.729 but that's explained in a separate lesson for that. 0:04:17.729,0:04:20.285 So I hope you are having fun with all of this 0:04:20.285,0:04:22.330 that's a lot of work you got on this time for this stage 0:04:22.330,0:04:23.973 so expect to be on this stage 0:04:23.973,0:04:25.073 for a little while, alright? 0:04:25.073,0:04:26.168 Don't be rushing it. 0:04:26.168,0:04:27.641 Much better to be able to do 0:04:27.641,0:04:28.841 a few things really well 0:04:28.841,0:04:30.536 than to be able to do a lot of things badly. 0:04:30.536,0:04:32.505 So just be cool, practice hard 0:04:32.505,0:04:33.753 keep working at it 0:04:33.753,0:04:35.153 working regular practice 0:04:35.153,0:04:35.997 all that stuff 0:04:35.997,0:04:37.807 and I'll see you when you're ready 0:04:37.807,0:04:39.696 to meet me in stage nine ! 0:04:39.696,0:04:41.484 the final chapter !