Sunday, November 1, 2009
Homework Song for Session 3 - Magnificent
The homework song for this week is "Magnificent", strummed in eigths.
We chose this song because it incorporated all the chords in the key of "G", namely G, C, D, Em, Am and Bm.
You will notice that Darren keeps his wrist moving in eights, but he strategically does not "hit" the strings on every stroke. This is just to give the song some "colour". As you get used to constancy in your rhythm, you will naturally get the feel for a song as to when to actually strike the strings with your upstrokes and downstrokes.
I suggest you also try some other songs which appear at the back of your notes in the key of "G" so you have a feel for the different permutations of chord changes between the family of chords.
If you can master changing between these six chords and get a consistent strum going, you can essentially play most of the songs we do at church!
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Remember to prioritise rhythm! If you find you can't change chords in time, just slow it down until you can play the song without any delays in chord changes. Remember that you can always miss the last strum to buy yourself more time to get your chord work sorted.
ReplyDeleteIf possible, play along to a metrenome, or just play along to the CD if you can play it at full speed.