Sound Check - 10 minutes
- Arrive on time
- Set up gear
- Tune up
- Adjust tone
Get to know the fingerboard by reviewing and exploring scales, arpeggios, and chords.
- One note rhythm - generate a rhythm cycle using only one note
- Scales - using a metronome, move with fluidity, consistancy
- Arpeggios - move across the strings covering 2 octaves
- Chords - finger positions, anchor points
This exercise expands musical vocabulary by reviewing and building scale fingerings and chord voicings. By using a metronome, timing, phrasing, and rhythm improves.
Practicing at slower tempos:
- Improves overall sound
- Develops more control
- Increases technical dexterity and endurance
- Settles performance experience
- Improves ability to respond to other musicians during group performance
Ear Training - 10 minutes
- Intervals - identify intervals between notes
- Chords - identify chord quality - major, minor, dominant, diminished, augmented
- Dictation - listening exercise - write down what you hear
- Select any recording
- Listen and play back what you hear
- Deconstruct the song, start with short phrases
- Hearing and repeating a new musical figure is the goal of this exercise