Me In The Bath guitarist singer music lessons program
Learn to play guitar and to sing, step by step and from scratch, with the not so famous one man band
Introduction
With this music lesson program, you can learn to play guitar and sing a song while playing, with step by step lessons, from the very
basis, teaching you how to play chords and note with numerous tablatures, video and audio examples, lyrics…
The program
Lesson 1: Floppy Disk
associated ressource : [Floppy Disk digital worksheet], [Printable PDF as helping document (in French)]
In the associated worksheet, you'll find all the bricks to craft various versions of Me In The Bath's "Floppy Disk", with various kind of arrangements that you can use depending on your mood.
Firts, print out the printable helping PDF ! He will be a good reminder of chords tablatures and other tablatures for this whole lesson!
Start with the beginning
To begin, just pick from the Floppy Disk digital worksheet the two main chords tablatures, C and Am. On tablatures, numbers are positions on the guitar to put your left hand's fingers on. Lines are strings, the bigger is at the bottom line and the thiner at the top line ! You have them ? These both chords are always the one used along the whole song. Start off by trying to play just one chord on rythm : place your left hand on the right cases and gently go up and down with your right hand's mediator.
Then do the same with the second chord. Once you have both of them at hand, start to alternate them, and try to play with the audio provided in the worksheet as background music. Do your best to recatch the rhythm if you make a mistake ! Soon you'll be able to play the two chords from the song's start to its end.
Complicate the things a bit
The songsheet provides several variations of the C and Am patern, with as examples, C7 instead of C, or A2/E instead of A. Try the various different chord positions, and play the song alternating them depending on the structure: read the lyrics for chorus and verses. And remember, at any time you should start trying to sing the song or part of it (like chorus only) while you play.
Right-hand rhythm subtilities
if you listen to the audio examples provided, you may note that the chorus can be introduced by a quick series of twice faster right hand up-and-downs at the very end of the last sequence of the verse. Such rythmic variation is common in modern music, and you may want to give it a try. Don't bother if you have a bit of trouble to achieve this immediately, and jump to next point, but keep that thing in mind and practice it as you like.
Arpeggios and addition of a riff
You may now want to start with the "riff", the "adding a sixth on the A" on the worksheet. It is very simple and will give punch to your intros and whole song. The idea is simply, once you are on the A chord (being Am, Am7, A2, A2/E or any A variation you like) to, on each 3rd half-a-time note out of a series of 4, to put a finger on the 3rd position of the 3rd string. Just see the tablature and, if you already know how to chain the two chords, it will be obvious to you.
Arpeggios are as well self-explanatory just by looking at the tablature. It's really as simple as playing downward and/or upward each single string instead of strucking them at once like you made while playing rhythmic chords. It's that simple. Don't forget to sing!
Conclusion
In this lesson you discovered two chords in key of Am : the Am chord and the C chord, and some of them variations by adding a second or a seventh. You learnt to alternate chords over a whole song, learnt how to add basic riff while still being playing the rhythmic parts, and how to develop a chord in arpeggio. If we're lucky, you also discovered how to sing along a bit while playing.
In the next lesson
In the next lesson we'll work on the song "My Toundra" to discover Dm, F, and G chords, and more advanced right-hand rhythm patterns, as well as more complex division of chords changes over the bars. Stay tuned and check here within' a few weeks
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Why this program?
As the main Me In The Bath musician, I've got some songs that I know how to play and teach, and since I've been asked to teach them, I started to gather online material to document them for my student. Then started the idea of proving them to the audience in a music lessons program.
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