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

There's only one more stage to go.

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

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

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

so do feel free to chop it in the half

so you got two 25min practice routine

in alternating days that you are doing what.

It doesn't really matter,

there's not a specific exercise that you

should do before other ones.

So its really up to you

to choose which ones you fancy doing when.

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

We have first of all :

memorizing notes on the thickest two strings

5 mins.

That's really important.

So now you are looking at the notes

on the 6th string and the 5th string.

All the way from the nut

all the way up to the 12th fret.

So a really good little game you can play

is just literally put a finger on a note

on one of the.. whatever fret you like

on one of the two thicker strings, and go

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

And up here ? oh that's a ..

count them up and go..

oh! that one is an F

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

or get your friend, your jam buddy or whatever

to sit there and point to different notes

and you name them.

Really good way of doing it

5 minutes a day.

We've got next

we've got the minor pentatonic scale

and the picking exercise that I showed you

so working on the minor pentatonic scale

and really working up to doing alternate picking

doing all downs, all ups

down and up on each note

and then alternate picking 5 mins a day.

We have chord practice

still if you need it

you might not need this one

so, if all your chords are sounding really sweet now

and every note is sounding good, no buzzy stuff

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

which is possible

but I suspect most of you would still be

needing to work on that so

make sure that's in there

strum, pick out, strum, as usual.

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

Then we have power chords

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

the power chord with the 5th string root

so the most important thing again,

I know we've just talked about it,

but make sure the 6th string is muted,

dead! kill dead with the first finger. Right?

Really really important.

Practice making sure you got the stretch.

Practice moving it up and down.

Maybe play some riffs and stuff.

Lots of fun

get cracking with that one.

We have then, one minute changes

now your one minute changes

bit of a free for all this time.

You can work on doing your

C to your G chord

using one of the new G chords.

We can work on doing

the big G to the little D

I'm just checking that that is what

we did in stage 8, it was the G chord

it was the G chord sorry!

Just confusing myself.

There's a lot of lessons going on.

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

and then you would have three blank lessons

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

whatever chord changes you think necessary.

Cause ???? my laptop down here

wrote with a lot of lesson plans

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

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

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

Ok. then, you should be having your

rhythm guitar practice

which is all of the patterns

you've done so far including pattern #16

which is that one where you're

hitting the base note independently.

Then you have 12bars blues rhythm

working on your chanka chanka 12 bar blues

getting that chin - kichin- kichin - kichin going on

aiming to not have any pauses between the chords

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

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

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

We then have basic fingerstyle practice

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

so really working on through

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

trying to make sure they are accurate

and they pick the right string at the right time.

It's a kind of preparing you up

for the next lesson really, that one.

Then we have songs and chord progressions.

So, whatever songs you are working up to now,

and just fiddling about with them,

working on them,

trying to make them sound cool,

good idea to keep on working on these songs.

At the end of this beginners course,

like next lesson again,

we'll talk a little bit more

about the emphasis of songs

but for now, just still 5min a day

working on your songs.

And lastly, you've got your optional

5 mins JUSTIN training exercises

which is about ear development

working on your ear

trying to recognize your chord sounds

and some of your rhythms as well now

so that stuff is getting a bit more advanced

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

So I hope you are having fun with all of this

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

so expect to be on this stage

for a little while, alright?

Don't be rushing it.

Much better to be able to do

a few things really well

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

So just be cool, practice hard

keep working at it

working regular practice

all that stuff

and I'll see you when you're ready

to meet me in stage nine !

the final chapter !