Lessons

__Lesson 1__: Played a couple of songs. Went over the basic parts of the guitar. Looked at student guitars and talked about different types of guitars. Showed students how to re-string a guitar. Showed students how to tune their guitar with the online tuner.
 * Assignment** - Practice tuning the guitar with the online guitar tuner. Practice the C chord.

__Lesson 2:__ Review of tuning with the online tuner. Students should have their guitars tuned when they arrive to class. Review of parts of a guitar. Introduction of relative tuning technique from the low E string. Practice the C chord. Introduction of the Am chord. Concept of "pivot finger". Handout of beginning chord diagrams.
 * Assignment** - Practice tuning guitar based off the low E string. Practice the C and Am chords. Try a few of the new chords out on the chart. Look at the help you can find online.. there's a ton!! Here's a sample of a book.. it has some great beginning lessons.. and covers tuning at the end.. check it out!! Also: here's a you-tube video about how to tune with standard tuning!

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__Over Christmas Break:__ Continue practicing chords. Chords in the key of C are.. C & Am, F & Bm, G & Em. F & Bm will be the hardest to learn at first. Go through the beginning book above and make sure you can tune your guitar. Check out some of the other lessons on the websites I have linked, they can help you learn basic chords. We don't have much time at school to practice so you will need to practice on your own in order to learn. YOUR FINGERS WILL HURT AT FIRST, but if you keep playing you will develop callouses which will help! Play on!

__3rd Lesson__: We went through standard tuning. We played the low E note from the internet site and tuned the other strings relative to this string. We practiced the C, AM, and D chords. We learned the basic strumming pattern and count.. 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &.. with their toes going down on the number and up on the &... down up down up down up down up.
 * Assignment** - Students are to keep practicing tuning and the three chords with the basic strumming pattern.

__4th Lesson__: Students should know C, Am, G, D, and Em chords. They should be practicing the strumming pattern.. down, down, up, up, down, up while transitioning between these chords. They should also practice the basic scale I showed them to practice.