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KATE'S UKE BOOT CAMP DRILLS
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DRILL #1
Boot Camp drills are based on Drill #1 with no exceptions.
The first primary exercise boot campers learn starts with the RIGHT hand. The left hand frets the note. The right hand delivers the notes alternating the thumb and first finger in place on the same string - like a flatpick without the flatpick.
DRILL #1 - Anchor RIGHT HAND ring finger/pinky gently on the soundboard with thumb resting on top of string 4 and fingers gently nested under strings 3, 2 and 1. Pick down with thumb on string 4 (G) and up-tick your index finger ON SAME STRING 4, down/up, down/up, down/up and alternate back and forth, thumb and forefinger - on the one string (only). It's like rubbing your thumb and tip of your forefinger together but there's a string in between that's getting the rub!
Come into time with a down/up to the count of four, 1, 2, 3, 4 (each up & down is 1 beat) down/up, down/up, down/up, down/up. Practice to the count of four 1, 2, 3, 4 over and again. When you're ready, move to the next string 3 (C) and do the same thing, practice picking the one string back and forth to the count of four, then string 2 (E) and finally string 1 (A) - then turn it around in a connected thumb and forefinger motion and go the other way - until it feels smooth, even, and calibrated in both directions on the four strings. Breathe in sync as you play on strings 4, 3, 2 and 1. Tap the foot to count.
The first primary exercise boot campers learn starts with the RIGHT hand. The left hand frets the note. The right hand delivers the notes alternating the thumb and first finger in place on the same string - like a flatpick without the flatpick.
DRILL #1 - Anchor RIGHT HAND ring finger/pinky gently on the soundboard with thumb resting on top of string 4 and fingers gently nested under strings 3, 2 and 1. Pick down with thumb on string 4 (G) and up-tick your index finger ON SAME STRING 4, down/up, down/up, down/up and alternate back and forth, thumb and forefinger - on the one string (only). It's like rubbing your thumb and tip of your forefinger together but there's a string in between that's getting the rub!
Come into time with a down/up to the count of four, 1, 2, 3, 4 (each up & down is 1 beat) down/up, down/up, down/up, down/up. Practice to the count of four 1, 2, 3, 4 over and again. When you're ready, move to the next string 3 (C) and do the same thing, practice picking the one string back and forth to the count of four, then string 2 (E) and finally string 1 (A) - then turn it around in a connected thumb and forefinger motion and go the other way - until it feels smooth, even, and calibrated in both directions on the four strings. Breathe in sync as you play on strings 4, 3, 2 and 1. Tap the foot to count.
Pinch Picking for two strings in C-scale exercises...
Using the rule of drill #1, play the C scale following the tab in the c-scale pdf
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| pinch_picking.pdf |
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Steve's "El Belle" in the key of C is first...
Start on string 1, third fret and follow the tab. All parts work together on this song. Once you get comfortable with El Belle, let ideas come to harmonize to parts with melodious responses of your own.
Follow the tablature for El Belle on the pdf, Once you've got it, play with variations of your own.
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| c_intervals_str_2_4 |
| c_maj_interval_stg_2_4_f_5 practise |
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C Harmonic Melody Suite - Parts to overlay harmonics in multiple compatible intervals on two strings
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