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You've made it ! You are at end of stage 8.

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There's only one more stage to go.

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Bad news is there's a lot of stuff to do in this stage

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so you now up to 50 minute a day practice routine.

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Now, for many of you, that's going to be too much

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so do feel free to chop it in the half

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so you got two 25min practice routine

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in alternating days that you are doing what.

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It doesn't really matter,

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there's not a specific exercise that you

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should do before other ones.

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So its really up to you

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to choose which ones you fancy doing when.

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So what have we got on the routine for this stage?

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We have first of all :

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memorizing notes on the thickest two strings

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5 mins.

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That's really important.

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So now you are looking at the notes

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on the 6th string and the 5th string.

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All the way from the nut

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all the way up to the 12th fret.

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So a really good little game you can play

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is just literally put a finger on a note

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on one of the.. whatever fret you like

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on one of the two thicker strings, and go

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Oh ! What's that one ? Oh, it's a G

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And up here ? oh that's a ..

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count them up and go..

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oh! that one is an F

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oh that one.. oh.. that's a E Flat whatever

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or get your friend, your jam buddy or whatever

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to sit there and point to different notes

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and you name them.

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Really good way of doing it

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5 minutes a day.

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We've got next

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we've got the minor pentatonic scale

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and the picking exercise that I showed you

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so working on the minor pentatonic scale

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and really working up to doing alternate picking

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doing all downs, all ups

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down and up on each note

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and then alternate picking 5 mins a day.

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We have chord practice

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still if you need it

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you might not need this one

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so, if all your chords are sounding really sweet now

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and every note is sounding good, no buzzy stuff

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you know exactly what notes 
you should be playing for what chord

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which is possible

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but I suspect most of you would still be

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needing to work on that so

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make sure that's in there

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strum, pick out, strum, as usual.

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You can decide what chords you need to work on the most.

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Then we have power chords

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so this time we are working on the C5 power chord,

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the power chord with the 5th string root

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so the most important thing again,

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I know we've just talked about it,

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but make sure the 6th string is muted,

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dead! kill dead with the first finger. Right?

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Really really important.

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Practice making sure you got the stretch.

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Practice moving it up and down.

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Maybe play some riffs and stuff.

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Lots of fun

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get cracking with that one.

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We have then, one minute changes

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now your one minute changes

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bit of a free for all this time.

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You can work on doing your

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C to your G chord

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using one of the new G chords.

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We can work on doing

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the big G to the little D

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I'm just checking that that is what

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we did in stage 8, it was the G chord

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it was the G chord sorry!

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Just confusing myself.

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There's a lot of lessons going on.

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I wanna make sure I'm giving you the right stuff.

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and then you would have three blank lessons

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well..blank one minute changes where you can put in

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whatever chord changes you think necessary.

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Cause ???? my laptop down here

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wrote with a lot of lesson plans

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And this is just like : oh la la, My God,

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I'm telling them a wrong thing, I was sure last time

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but it's not. That's everything was good so far.

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Ok. then, you should be having your

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rhythm guitar practice

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which is all of the patterns

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you've done so far including pattern #16

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which is that one where you're

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hitting the base note independently.

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Then you have 12bars blues rhythm

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working on your chanka chanka 12 bar blues

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getting that chin - kichin- kichin - kichin going on

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aiming to not have any pauses between the chords

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that's the big thing you're working on with there.

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And just trying to get it, so, kind of groovy

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and swings along nicely, 
that will be a really good plan.

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We then have basic fingerstyle practice

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I told you, there's lot going on in this level

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so really working on through

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getting the fingers in, you know, working a little bit

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trying to make sure they are accurate

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and they pick the right string at the right time.

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It's a kind of preparing you up

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for the next lesson really, that one.

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Then we have songs and chord progressions.

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So, whatever songs you are working up to now,

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and just fiddling about with them,

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working on them,

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trying to make them sound cool,

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good idea to keep on working on these songs.

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At the end of this beginners course,

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like next lesson again,

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we'll talk a little bit more

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about the emphasis of songs

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but for now, just still 5min a day

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working on your songs.

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And lastly, you've got your optional

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5 mins JUSTIN training exercises

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which is about ear development

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working on your ear

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trying to recognize your chord sounds

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and some of your rhythms as well now

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so that stuff is getting a bit more advanced

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but that's explained in a separate lesson for that.

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So I hope you are having fun with all of this

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that's a lot of work you got on this time for this stage

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so expect to be on this stage

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for a little while, alright?

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Don't be rushing it.

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Much better to be able to do

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a few things really well

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than to be able to do a lot of things badly.

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So just be cool, practice hard

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keep working at it

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working regular practice

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all that stuff

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and I'll see you when you're ready

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to meet me in stage nine !

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the final chapter !