NYAA Entry - Skills - Overview for April - Guitar

13th April 2007
- Learnt to play different note values in the song: 500 miles
Quaver: Eighth note
Dotted note: Increases the value of the note by half
Tie: joining of two more note of the same pitch, second note(s) is not played but its time value is add to the first note
- Practiced on the exercises on G major
- Taught us strumming of chords
- Learnt new chord: D7.

20th April 2007
- individual assessment on the exercises on G major
- Combination of strumming of chords and plucking of notes for the songs in the exercises on G major.
- Exercises on F major 2 songs (involve playing of flat notes)

27th April 2007
- Individual assessment on the exercises on F major
- New Song: 七里香
- Taught us the reading of tabs (lines represent the strings, number represent the frets)
- Filling in of the notes of the new song
- Demonstration of the new song
- Brief practice on the new song