Instrument Gym
Weekly. Practice and workout on instruments. Included with residency.
Practice and workout on instruments with fellow residents. Guided sessions, technique exercises, and collaborative playing.
Upcoming Sessions
- Jul 20 5am (PT) | 8am (ET) | 1pm (UK) Nathan
- Jul 23 5am (PT) | 8am (ET) | 1pm (UK) Scott Hampton
- Jul 29 5am (PT) | 8am (ET) | 1pm (UK) Kallie
Recent Sessions
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We talked about technique with playing to help alleviate shoulder pain, or any discomfort from posture and the way we hold the guitar. We then worked through some hand warm up exercises, finger dexterity and talked about ways to find the root, 3rd, 5th etc on the guitar neck. We also discussed briefly how 3 piece bands and songwriters write a little differently in terms of self accompaniment and looked at some popular examples. Finally we wrapped up class with connecting and soloing around two scales as part of the Cage theory, and ways to improvise with flourishes like bends, hammer ons, or even just changing the rhythmic feel.
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We worked through the Hanon exercise as a harmonic training tool, running it in tenths across all keys via the circle of fourths and fifths. The focus was on using the melodic structure of the exercise to train the ear to catch wrong notes rather than watching the fingers navigate key changes. We also explored adapting the exercise to natural minor and attempted harmonic minor, which revealed the augmented second in that scale and introduced the Phrygian dominant scale as a related concept.
All resident events are included with your Beat Kitchen Residency.
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