"Play the Guitar for Cell in 4 Weeks" GP guide

Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:42 am

Thought process:
Quite a number of my church friends would very much like to learn some basic strumming for cell, but have no opportunity to do so. Problem is that I don't have the time to teach, as much as I would like to, and I thought of doing a guidebook instead.

Was thinking along the lines of an intensive crash course, along the lines of 'play in 4 weeks'... organised into three "practice sessions" each week. Could even have mp3 or video samples for illustrations.

Then I figured that it'd be fun to do it as a collaborative effort on GP, maybe have the chapters up on google docs for people to edit. Someone will have to do the final edit though (me?). Plus point is that we can use it to teach our non-Christian friends too.

So.. up for discussion:
i) Thoughts on this, and how we can work togther? I have some material from another workshop, maybe I can upload it to google docs, but we can discuss the outline here first. Also, who's interested in helping?

ii) Chapter outline. Suggestion:
- Week 1: the basics
i) Parts of the guitar, what are chords, chord families, reading tabs.
ii) G major chord family 1: G C D chords
iii) G major chord family 2: Em Am chords

- Week 2: moving on
i) Learning to strum 1
ii) C major chord family: C F Em Dm chords
iii) Learning to strum 2

- Week 3: moving on again
i) A major chord family: A E F#m C#m chords
ii) Varying your dynamics
iii)E major chord family: B G#m chords

- Week 4: finishing up
i) D major chord family: Bm chord + revision of chords
ii) Playing independently + transposing chords
iii) For further practice: barre, sus, 7th chords

Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:20 am

Cool idea, so it's like trying to make your own guitar-basics-book?

If i can help in any way, i will;) Just ask.

Maybe we can work out an online course, with movies. Personally i like to learn from what i see, and not from books. Like teaching the basic chords, and how the function in a song.

My 2 cents;)

Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:49 pm

Thats a kewl idea, I do guitar lessons in my city and I know how great it would be to give someone a book to help them understand the basics. Usually I spend half my lessons drawing diagrams haha.

I would be keen to help swing me a pm if you want me to do any articles for the guide.

Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 5:26 am

this can be very useful esp on summer workshops we use to have.
im tired of teaching kids the same lessons all over again.

Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:21 am

if you want i still have some of my sloopy guitar teaching papers that i wrote up for my students.

do you want to start with basic acoustic chords before power chords and all?

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:25 am

CTegg wrote:

if you want i still have some of my sloopy guitar teaching papers that i wrote up for my students.

do you want to start with basic acoustic chords before power chords and all?

is this for me? Embarassed

sure bro..

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:14 am

ahah im talking to kenny but if u want i can send em! on the front side i even have tips and experinces of worship leading on em to

Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:53 am

CTegg wrote:

ahah im talking to kenny but if u want i can send em! on the front side i even have tips and experinces of worship leading on em to

please do.

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:20 pm

this'll help alot, some in our church wants to learn guitar basics, but i rili dont know how to teach! ahahahha

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:59 pm

It wouldn't necessarily hurt to have a GP basic instructional, but at the same time there are some really good instructionals on Youtube already. I like GP because it focuses on the popular techniques in worship but generally for other stuff there are plenty of good resources on the internet already.

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:51 pm

TheRagnCajun wrote:

It wouldn't necessarily hurt to have a GP basic instructional, but at the same time there are some really good instructionals on Youtube already. I like GP because it focuses on the popular techniques in worship but generally for other stuff there are plenty of good resources on the internet already.

true!!!

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but a basic GP course would be cool...

but where do you want to start? I mean, you need to know a few chords before you start improvising and using powerchords...

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:27 pm

CTegg, can u also send it to me??

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 6:22 am

You know, I would really like to be able to do strumming patterns like for example the song Break Free in the bridge.
I cant seem to get that right.

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:59 am

Sorry.. the going on this has been abit slow..

Those with templates or previous course materials cld you send it to me? Just put it somewhere like savefile.com and pm me Smile

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:28 am

wow.. cool project.
can you add videos to the outline.

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:39 pm

cmorales wrote:

You know, I would really like to be able to do strumming patterns like for example the song Break Free in the bridge.
I cant seem to get that right.

in sixteenth notes:

V-V^V-V^V-V^V...

V = downstroke
^ = upstroke
- = pause
bolded = play (all other strokes are muted)

start slow to ensure you get the pause in there, then speed it up!
You may also find that lighter picks make it easier to strum fast.

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:39 am

ninmei wrote:

CTegg wrote:

ahah im talking to kenny but if u want i can send em! on the front side i even have tips and experinces of worship leading on em to

please do.

sorry i been bussy and total forgot! seems like i only have my acoustic page 1. my student lost them before i could scan em! if i have time i rewrite them and scan em!

sorry man

Bedroom jammer Joined: 31 Mar 2009 Posts: 152

This would totally help. I wish i knew of anyway i could help you guys but im afraid i don't but i can be sure to test it.