L E V E L II
Module II
Improve your ear, understand a fundamental musical building block, add a new scale pattern, understand fingering and learn new fingerpicking patterns.
This lesson will get you started on your path to playing by ear as you learn how to match pitches. ET2 Listening/Pitch Sense
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This video presents an overview and a method for training your ear. You can’t do too much of this stuff! ET9 Ear Training
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The fingering you use is an essential element in playing with clarity, efficiency, comfort, and speed. This lesson will show you how to choose the best fingering in any situation. T13 Fingering
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Keep these fingerpicking paterns in your toolbox to use with songs in 4/4 time: T7Fingerpicking Patterns
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There will be lots of times when you need to change the key of a song. Use both of the lessons below to learn how to do that easily.
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When you know Scale Pattern # 1 inside out and have used it in numerous settings, you’re ready to learn Scale Pattern #2. It’s important to only learn one scale pattern at a time, otherwise they are likely to get jumbled in your head and your playing. Study the following lessons: LP14Scale Pattern #2 ; LP27Scale Pattern #2
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Learn the logic behind the naming of intervals, so that you can easily recognize, name and use them. The video Th19Intervals will make things clear, as will the audio lesson ET15 Intervals Defined.
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Learn to play the thirds in Scale Pattern #2, and then begin practicing random manipulation. Continue to do this with each scale pattern that you learn, as you did in Lessons 7 and 8 in Module I.
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Well done! Onward to Module III!
